DRAWINGS, PHOTOS & NOTES FROM MY FIRESCAPE DURING THE 2020’s LOCKDOWN Astor Place, New York, at the eve of the Covid19 crises. Something is cooking, nobody known, but the sky feels heavier than lead MANHATTAN, THE LOCATION: Out of this crazy race about building higher and higher, one can find Read more…
Una intervista de la Giornalista di l’Ovadese, Italia, pubblicata giovedi 26 novembre 2020: Patrizia Pesce – [ Journalist at l’Ovadese, Italy. An Interview published Thursday November 26, 2020 – Not planned, but symbolically during Thanksgiving day in the USA.] My Full Original Interview [ English version] Last spring, during the Read more…
Award-winning documentary filmmaker in Hollywood, Thomas Deshays, presents my last work on the French’s TV program interview called VEF [#VEF]: “Vous êtes formidable” [You are wonderful]. Thomas talks how he created his successful movie called “Giant” in the Nord of France while living in New York on the Astor Place hood. Read more…
Nine years ago today, in January 22, 2010, was published a commissioned linoleum cut by the New York Times’ Op-Ed, to illustrate ” To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature” by Mark Danner. The article came out soon after an horrific earthquake stoke Haiti. I had terrible human consequences Read more…
The Civil Right Movement remains, even today, a very hard and complex issue, its components have many facets, like we are visually familiar with “the marches” for example. Today I was looking for an illustration relating to “speeches”, I came across this image I created over a decade ago. The Read more…
It was in November 13 y ago, violence burst out in the streets of Paris, today we are on the very early of December and we are back into the same cycle, and it hardly matter if it is or not labeled for exactly the same reasons . This prouves Read more…
Commission et published linoleum cut 13 y ago by the Wall Street Journal #wallstreetjournal #wsj Saturday/Sunday nov. 27-27, 2005 Dessin . drawing . original linoleum cut and woodcut . linogravure originale et gravures sur bois . linóleo grabado original . incisione originale . xilografie. Copyright © Raymond Verdaguer 20018
12 years ago: ongoing humanitarian crisis perpetrated by wars. Commissioned and published linoleum cut to illustrate ” Darfur’s Fleeting Moment ” by Antony Lake and Francis Fukuyama. New York Times, Op-Ed Sunday May 21, 2006. “Darfur Fleeting Moment”- The New York Times- Week in Review- May 21, 2006 – Linoleum Read more…
April 20, 2006: commissioned and published linoleum cut illustration by the New York Times, Op-Ed. on Earth Day, ” Not Out of The Wood Just Yet ” by Don Melnick and Mary Pearl. ” The people most vulnerable to the disappearance of forests are the poor: nearly three-quarters of the Read more…