ML Hart

My first memory is sitting in a hallway with a book in my lap. Before I was 19, I’d planned to be a ballerina, an FBI agent, and/or a brain surgeon, until I knew I was a writer. For the next many years, afraid of both the power and the responsibility of writing, I managed to distract myself by working in anything else, from theatre to law. The detours led me to making other kinds of art, finding an affinity in photography and then back to books. This time around, I make my own.

Death of paper, e-book readers, all that. Yeah I know. I still like to make physical books.

ML Hart - photo by Nick Abadilla

Since 1998, I've been working on (and off) a new book about tenors. But it's about my journey now instead of in addition to theirs. This time 'round, I'm less intimidated by the scope, but it's been equal parts the bane of my existence and the music of my soul. We'll see where it leads me.



Oh, and my cat's name is CutiePie or Pumpkin or, most often, Stop That!

 

twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/MsMartha_writer

facebook
http://www.facebook.com/mlhart.writer

google+
https://plus.google.com/115363412108298574609/posts

blurb.com
http://www.blurb.com/user/MsMartha

500px
http://mlhart.500px.com/#/0

linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlhart

 

PUBLICATIONS / MEDIA

THE ART OF MAKING OPERA
two seasons with San Diego Opera
a two-years-in-the-making documentary-photo&text book – shot in San Diego, written in Prague
Foreword by conductor Richard Bonynge

TYPED LIVE, EXCUSE ERORS
photographers @ technology’s crossroads
part history, part personal journey documenting an online photography group before there were Twibes on Twitter or Like Buttons on Facebook… and yes, the misspelling is intentional
Foreword by scholar Eric McLuhan

INSIDE THE MUSIC
performance portraits 1993-1997
with the band(s), off and on – snippets of life on the road and the challenges of shooting appear in the book about the photo group (typed live)

on-stage and backstage photography appears in:
Opéra Magazine [France]
Opera Magazine [UK]
Opera News
Opera Now
OPERNWELT [Germany]
The White House Journal
Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd [book]
San Diego Opera Spotlight [documentary video series]
HERMANN PREY – Stille meine Liebe [film]

author photo by Nick Abadilla, San Diego CA

Popular Posts