My friend Max is on Charlie Rose tonight!

Max S. Gerber, an incredible photographer (The Latest Shot in my blog links), is going to be on Charlie Rose tonight talking about his book My Heart vs. the Real World.



I have been amazed by him since we first met next door to each other in Echo Park in 2000. Working for Time Magazine, The L.A. Times and various other weeklies, magazines and newspapers, he often has very little control over his subjects or their environments and very little time to set up but he always makes the most incredible portraits: arresting in their realness, intimate and beautiful. His book is a personal project, a diary of children who, like himself, have congenital heart disease (CHD) and have had various surgeries and transplants at a young age, to save their lives. It's touching to see the grown up dignity of these kids that only comes from an act of survival most of us never experience. Congratulations Max!