Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

Way back in May I went wine tasting up in Napa and, thanks to a friend who works at winery, was able to try some mighty fine wines. A bottle that costs $150 really does taste better. I'm posting these now because I've run out of pictures and I feel like I need to post something and these were lying around.

William Langewiesche on Haditha [Vanity Fair, 12 pages]. Langewiesche, my favorite magazine writer, explores the events that led up to the incident at Haditha in which 24 Iraqi civilians were killed. The piece delves into the soldiers point of view during war with all the boredom and stresses and provides a context for understanding what happened. He goes into some gruesome details but in the service of explaining the incident. It's a long read but fantastic.

Accompanying the article is this amazing series of portraits of Kilo Company, the group of marines involved in the incident. They were taken by photojournalist Lucian Read two months before the incident. Read was embedded with the unit as part of his project of following a single group of marines from deployment, into combat, their return home and, in many cases their subsequent redeployment to Iraq. Read's website shows many of his photos and I also came across this excellent 10 minute video interview with him talking about his project. Read obviously has a comradarie with the troops so it is ironic that his photos of the dead Iraqi civilians were what helped spur the outrage that lead several of the troops to be charged with crimes.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.