Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #23 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . THE WEINSTEIN MATTER . Since the Harvey Weinstein matter surfaced in Hollywood, a number of people have asked me for my thoughts. I do have a somewhat unique perspective on the matter, being myself falsely accused of sexual offenses against … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #22 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . REMEMBRANCES . One of the cruelist things about being incarcerated is that friends and family die while you’re unable to see them. I’ve lost count of how many have gone in the last ten years. Last October I was sitting … Read more
Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018 . FROM RICHES TO RAGS . A little over a decade ago in the Spring of 2007, I received a phone call from a journalist from Hamburg, Germany to discuss a photo assignment. He wanted me to illustrate a photo story he was working on … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #20 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . STRANGE SIGNS . In my travels I always kept an eye open for interesting things to photograph. Sometimes it was people, sometimes animals, sometimes street scenes, and so on. One thing I saw almost everywhere was signs, sometimes official, … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #15 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . I’m sitting here listening to some wonderful music. It’s the soundtrack album for The Collector, a late 1960s film by William Wyler, based on the novel by John Fowles. I consider Fowles to be the finest writer in English … Read more