Writer · Photographer · Expat

The World Outside the Frame

Essays, travel memoir, and political commentary from a US writer living in Portugal.

Mark

I've spent my adult life heading outward from the United States — three continents, seven years without a fixed address, before I settled on the coast of Portugal. I work in political essays, travel memoir, and photography. In all three, I'm after the same thing: the gap between the official story and what's actually there. New writing lands first at Material Witness →

Travel Memoir

Road to Mindelo

On arriving somewhere that refuses to be what you expected.

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Essays & Commentary

Essays

The official story is always missing something. Here's what gets left out.

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Photography

Witness

Three continents. One camera. Outside the frame.

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