Medellin Living

A few of my friends, Troy (Foggodyssey) and Marcello (Wandering Trader) are on a 10-day photography road trip with Mikey (Lightenupandshoot). They posted this video in the midst of their adventures.  I’ll be sharing more with you as it becomes available.

In Medellin, one of the first restaurants someone recommended to me was Il Forno. It’s an Italian place, and Steve, the person who recommended it, is half Sicilian, a native New Yorker who also has Italian citizenship. Steve makes delicious tomato sauce from scratch, something he let me try a couple of times and later [...]

Walk down Carrera 30 in El Carmen del Viboral, toward Parque Principal, and look to your right after you pass Calle 32. Look for a tiny bar, about the size of a walk-in closet. If it’s open, you’ll get the chance to meet one of the town’s friendliest residents. They call him Flaco. The skinny [...]

The same questions come up, over and over again. The women are beautiful and it’s easy to pick one up if you’re an American, right? Isn’t it dangerous there? Aren’t there a lot of drugs? I’ve heard they like to party there, but is there anything else to do? Oh, boy. Let me first say [...]

Some things just go together. Hawaii and hula. Football and Sunday. Politicans and broken promises. In Medellín, December brings a popular pair: Lights and holidays. Lots of lights. There are 16 millions of them, to honor the city’s 16 neighborhoods, the aesthetic highlight of the city’s Los Alumbrados. The lights covered almost 20 miles of [...]

Deciding what to buy them was easy. I just had to find them. My four nephews and nieces love soccer so I figured soccer jerseys would make a great Christmas gift, but I had to find them in their favorite colors and that meant going downtown or, as it’s called here, Centro. My paísa friend [...]

This video captures a photo-charity project lead by my buddy Troy Floyd. Help Portrait Medellín 2011 from Katie Hudson. The concept is simple: it’s comprised of photographers and volunteers who want to come together and give free professional photographs back to the wonderful Paisa people of Medellín. We hit the streets armed with our camera [...]