Billy Howard

Billy Howard
Billy Howard is a commercial and documentary photographer with an emphasis on education and global health.
Number of posts: 39
Email address: billy@billyhoward.com

Posts by Billy Howard:


    Life, Talk

    Freezing Time

    by Billy Howard | 6, Add your Comment | Aug 16 10
    Freezing Time
    Twenty-six years ago I exhibited my first work of photography in a joint exhibition with Marilyn Suriani.  Our work was woven from the same patchwork cloth of people on the fringes of society. We leaned on each other and protected each other from the emotional entanglements necessary to enter into other people’s lives. The resulting exhibit, Living Our Real Lives, featured images of the homeless, exotic dancers, punks and people who, through faith or fate, were considered different. We followed each other into some of the same spaces to find the people that inhabited our images and mirrored each other in ...
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    Talk, Views, Voices

    Lazarus Redux

    by Billy Howard | 2, Add your Comment | Aug 16 10
    Lazarus Redux
    The poetically inclined amongst the Tea Party have suggested a slight updating to Emma Lazarus moving poem affixed to the Statue of Liberty. We here at the Dew are pleased to be the first to bring you this stirring, patriotic tome with notes from the original, outdated verse. The New Colossus (what a weird name, let’s beef it up. The Incredible Hulk sounds more American) Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, (are these the same Greeks asking for handouts! You bet it ain’t him. How about we change this to André the Giant.) With conquering limbs astride from land to land; (Who body ...
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    News, Politics, Talk, Voices

    The Deal on Hate

    by Billy Howard | 21, Add your Comment | Aug 11 10
    The Deal on Hate
    Nathan Deal has out-hated Karen Handel to become the Republicans’ choice for the next governor of Georgia. Proclaiming to represent conservative values, which of course means profiling Hispanic citizens and demonizing gay people who happen to want committed relationships, Deal questioned Handel’s hate bona fides and won. Karen Handel left tell-tale signs she didn’t hate quite enough. Gay people are awful, terrible, sinful, Godless heathens and their desire to love, honor and obey each other threatens to wreck the marriages of heterosexuals who would henceforth look at their own marriages and say, what’s the point of being married if gay people ...
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    Views, Voices

    Celebrity News

    by Billy Howard | 5, Add your Comment | Aug 1 10
    Celebrity News
    I like my celebrities on TMZ All vulgar and nasty and ugly to see Not dressed up refined in Vanity Fair Where everyone has such impeccable hair I like my celebrities vile and repulsive Like Mel Gibson embracing his lower impulses Screaming in tantrums and murderous rages Not like his smile on People’s gloss pages Looking at mug shots of all that was innocent Lindsay and Britney faking at penitent Then mocking us all with a straight middle finger At first they're demur but watch for their stinger Our daily routines only seem that much smaller When even Tom Cruise can be photographed taller None of us helped by Photoshop’s magic We look at ourselves ...
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    Life, People & Places, Talk, Voices

    Body Language

    by Billy Howard | 11, Add your Comment | Jul 28 10
    Body Language
    We tell our tales and hold our secrets. Our stories come out on paper, in spoken words, even in the things we choose not to say. And then, with little fanfare, some stories are told in ink on skin, walking with us as we share both secrets and dares indelibly marked onto our bodies. Over the past few years more and more people, particularly but not necessarily, young, are finding or creating images to be sewn into their skin with needles and ink. Once the province of sailors and gangs, these images now proudly shout out from the arms, backs, torsos and ...
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    News, Talk, Voices

    A Haiku a Day

    by Billy Howard | 7, Add your Comment | Jul 27 10
    A Haiku a Day
    My friend Andrew has embarked on a noble mission, to write a haiku every day for a year, chronicling the foibles of life in seventeen poignant syllables. In this age of overwhelming bloviating, his zen-like approach to the news of the day is a quaint, reflective and usually quite humorous way to absorb the culture crashing down upon us. Like putting prose into twitter, the snippets of wisdom, often twisting at the end, encapsulate ideas into neat packages of words. Visit his site, HaikuLounge and contribute your own take on life. I have found it quite cathartic to distill thoughts into this lovely ...
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    People & Places, Politics

    Ben Stein’s BFF

    by Billy Howard | 28, Add your Comment | Jul 22 10
    Ben Stein’s BFF
    “The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work.”  – Ben Stein, The American Spectator Guten Tag Ben! It’s probably as big a surprise to you as it is to me that I'm writing, but I just had to give you a little shout out, or, as we said in ...
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    People & Places, Politics, Views, Voices

    Pistol Packin’ Preacher

    by Billy Howard | 37, Add your Comment | Jul 9 10
    Pistol Packin’ Preacher
    Jesus’ representative in Georgia, the Reverend Jonathan Wilkins of the Baptist Tabernacle of Thomaston, is suing the state to allow his flock to bring guns into church. Currently, in a grave miscarriage of not only justice, but Christian values, guns are not allowed in church. Jesus would be excited about this law suit. Had guns been invented 2000 years ago, he would have carried one himself and likely would have been a good shot. He was a carpenter, was used to working with his hands and, least we forget, his father was God. And Jesus certainly knew the dangers inherent in preaching. ...
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    Life, Talk

    Ode to Louie (this is not a cologne!)

    by Billy Howard | 13, Add your Comment | Jul 1 10
    Ode to Louie (this is not a cologne!)
    This wasn’t supposed to happen. My friends are turning 60. Of course, I’ve known people who are sixty before. I called them “parents,”  or sometimes they were friends of my parents, or my doctor or a professor or a retired person who trudged around the neighborhood with a cane and sometimes I even liked those people, but they weren’t what I would call friends. When I started my career as a photographer there was one person working for the Atlanta papers who I looked up to, (later I discovered he was a little shorter than I was, but I still looked ...
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    Sights & Sounds, Talk

    Robbers, Bankers, Bandits, Kings

    by Billy Howard | 12, Add your Comment | Feb 8 10
    Robbers, Bankers, Bandits, Kings
    (a valentine of sorts) Robbers lives are filled with naught living on what others bought sneaking in your house at night and taking everything in sight. Bankers make their wealth in loans of which you pay them back with moans they keep their money stale and dry and late at night they often cry Bandits from the bankers steal the bullets in their guns are real but bandits usually leave a trail and most of them wind up in jail Kings have power over all they keep their strength with Geritol taxing rich and poor alike and having gala balls at night Robbers, bankers, bandits, kings all these men hold earthly things but I possess much more than ...
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    Talk, Views

    Twenty-Dollar Christmas

    by Billy Howard | 5, Add your Comment | Dec 29 09
    Twenty-Dollar Christmas
    Honoring this year’s recession (last year’s rough patch) my wife and I set a limit on gifts for each other: Twenty Dollars. While in years past (when patriotism involved shopping), we became very patriotic, Christmas knew no bounds and packages were piled high. This year required a bit less wallet and a bit more creativity. My wife has always been good at this — me, not so much. Her skills at a computer keyboard scouring the internet for just the right thing at just the right price are prodigious. My skills with credit cards, also prodigious. I started my shopping stumped. My favorite ...
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    Life, People & Places

    A Box Full of Christmas

    by Billy Howard | 15, Add your Comment | Dec 10 09
    A Box Full of Christmas
    The potential of a box is infinite. Though confined to the square of its walls, the possibility of its inventory is limited only by the imagination. Pandora had one she shouldn’t have opened, but who can blame her? On Christmas morning it is the box, wrapped in festive paper, that holds promise. The excitement comes from opening and discovering the contents. Somehow, the joy of the thing is all tied up into that first moment of revelation. It is that brief time before opening that holds the greatest satisfaction, the box itself offering the gift, the contents a metaphor for ...
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    Life, Talk

    Nightmare on Emerson

    by Billy Howard | 7, Add your Comment | Sep 5 09
    Nightmare on Emerson
    If you have never tried to sell a house, you may as well stop reading right now. It will be impossible for you to accept what I am about to write as anything but fiction…..of the Stephen King variety. However, if you have sold a house, you will begin nodding your head, recognizing the horrors and giving thanks that you have passed through the valley of the shadow of real estate and reached the promised land. Last week, we put our house on the market. The path we took to planting a for sale sign was worthy of a budget version ...
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