Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

Year-end praise for The Lost

It was a great weekend for The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. My brother's book--one which I spent five years shooting photographs for--was named one of the 50 Notable Books (non-fiction) of 2006 by The New York Times on Sunday. When one thinks of the thousands and thousands of books released each year, this is certainly an amazing honor.

The Houston Chronicle weighed in on Sunday as well, naming The Lost one of its 12 best books of the year. The Chronicle was kind enough to note that "no other memoir has received more respectful reviews in recent months."

The Boston Globe also included The Lost on its list of the 12 best non-fiction books of 2006.



















And finally, Amazon.com named The Lost as it's #2 history book of 2006, a wonderful way to finish the weekend.

Now, if I could only get HarperCollins to make the pictures a little bigger than postage stamps in the next printing, life would be great. :)

On an unrelated note, we're still clawing our way through the holiday photo blitz, trying to stay above water. So if you guys are wondering why I'm not writing a lot these days, that's it!

But I promise to be back up to speed in a few days, with fun and depressing tales of just how crazy people get around this time of year. Let's just say that I feel for some of the children I've photographed lately.

Happy shopping,

Matt