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…
Recent air strikes in Syria. While New York City [ where the UN is located] celebrates it first Spring day with trees blossoming, today’s Spanish newspaper El Pais raises its darkest concern that this new conflict could develop into the next World War! Based on history facts, it seems virtually Read more…
April 2003: Series of linoleum cuts illustrations commissioned and published 15 years ago by Harper’s Magazine, New York. “No More Unto The Breach – Part 2: The Unconquerable World” by Jonathan Schell … Excerpt “Never have the possibilities both for horror and hope been more extreme, and ever, therefore, has Read more…