by Jeffrey M Levine | Mar 14, 2012
In November 2011 I traveled to India to photograph and spent nearly two weeks there. My highlight was a city called Benares. Each day at dawn I went to the riverbanks, also called Ghats, and returned with hours of video. I edited the best clips together to recreate...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 13, 2012
In June of 2012 I went to Bolivia to celebrate the winter solstice with the shamans. This day is considered the Aymara new year, an astronomical event with ancestral trditions that go back thousands of years. I was staying in the town of Chinchana on the Isla del Sol...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Dec 12, 2011
In my journey expoloring both medicine and art, I’ve thought a lot about the neurobiology of creativity. The corpus callosum is the thick bundle of 200 million nerve fibers that forms the communication network between the left brain and right brain. The left brain is...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 7, 2011
When I was growing up, my grandparents wintered in Miami. I remember visiting them and feeling the warm sunshine and sand that sometimes scalded your feet when days were hot. In 1985 while training in geriatrics in New York City, I returned to Miami to photograph...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Oct 17, 2011
I recently traveled to the Bolivian highlands and Lake Titicaca to find new faces of aging, and on the way discovered an exquisite example of ancient treasure featuring geriatrics and art. The Pariti Ceramics Museum was not listed in my guidebook. In fact, Pariti...
