Revisiting Hopkins
- Willy Conley
- Feb 16
- 1 min read
I’m thrilled to announce that Tendon, a magazine put out by Johns Hopkins University, just published a short essay of mine along with a biomedical photo that I shot in the operating room when working at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1984. It is titled "OR Illustrator" and it's available to read online in Issue 08: Care Spring 2026.
Why mention a Hopkins revisit? Got my first start as a photographer almost fifty years ago interning in Hopkin’s pathology photography department under our inimitable director Raymond “Pete” Lund. This was our department photo (with me in the lower right next to Pete)…
![Down the Hatch [*clink*]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/856f7b_67064b878f0744e4b7777e34bd30cfcb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_716,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/856f7b_67064b878f0744e4b7777e34bd30cfcb~mv2.jpg)
How extraordinary and such heroic efforts on the medical team despite the loss of one of the twins. Fascinating photo and to see what was 'state of the art' 50 years ago. 50? Wow.
Check out that matinee idol kneeling at the chair in the photo above, too!