The title of the most recent issue of T Magazine is “How to Be Cultured.” This inspired some questions — so I asked the mag’s creative director and deputy editor about it for the NYT. Out in today’s paper.
The Sum of the Parts: A Writing and Photography Workshop
Aug 24, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026
Learn how to combine writing and photography into a unified creative practice that strengthens your storytelling and artistic voice.
Link in bio! 👻
“What does writing offer to the photograph and what does photography offer to the written word? In this workshop, we will examine the ways in which writing and photography can serve each other and our own artistic practices. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in the blending of images and text. Using what we learn from lectures, exercises, discussions and critiques, to make original works in both of these mediums.
This workshop is geared towards artists who work with both text and image, who work with one medium and are informed by the other, or have a practice with one medium and aim to incorporate the other into their practice. Led by photographer Madeleine Morlet and writer Vivian Ewing, the instructors will guide the class by drawing on their experiences collaborating with one another and with other artists and writers, leading everyone to make new works.”
@vivian.ewing@mainemedia
https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/item/the-sum-of-the-parts-a-writing-and-photography-workshop/
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As much of the world’s attention shifts to Iran, Kim Barker is still focused on Ukraine. I got to talk to the funny, warm, war correspondent about her recent day with Zelensky. Link in bio.
For The New York Times, I interviewed the editor of Trilobites, a short and sweet science column that exists outside the larger news cycle. We talked about researchers sneaking up on whales while they’re sleeping, snowy owls that have turned orange, fluorescent mammals and seal milk 🤍🦭🥛 (link in bio)
Last winter, I went out on a pilot gig boat with a group of almost exclusively women that rows almost every day, all year round. It was cold and wet and I wore the wrong shoes. My story about why they do it is out in the most recent issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. The last picture is from that day in December—all others are by Randi Baird.
This summer, I spent a day at Dock Street Coffee Shop for this piece about the fifty-year-old diner. As so much of Martha’s Vineyard has changed, Dock Street has remained a kind of time capsule of life there in the seventies. I’m grateful I get to work on stories like this. Link in bio. 🍳 Photos by the talented @gab
For @nytimes I wrote about the end of the cool, smart, sometimes edgy New York Times for Kids. Someone tell the comments section not to cry because it’s over! I’m glad it existed for eight years. Find this piece and the last edition in this Sunday’s paper 🌈🙂
Good luck summer: There was berry picking (it got hot) and grilling. Then there was little Francis, and bookclub, and then I found a dollar in the lake.
Okay, maybe our garden beds weren’t deep enough to grow big carrots but this one was enough for all three of us (dog included) to have a bite. And then I found raspberries growing in a little public sidewalk juncture, so it all works out
Part of my job as an editor at this magazine was to come up with two new columns, which has been a little dream. The first is called Ways and Means and, in it, I ask locals who are good at something to explain how they do it and what it means to them. For the second — Other Islands, Other Islanders — I ask people around the world for hot takes on their home. Here, @theonionmage tells me about his passionate feelings for onions, a nearly 70-year-old hiker talks about leading an annual 20-mile hike across the Vineyard, and then a sheep farmer in New Zealand and a shopkeeper in Maine tell me about their islands. 💫
