Me
Portland, OR
17 October 2009
03 November 2009
07 October 2009
In case you haven't seen it, World Press Photo launched a new website, an archive of all past winners. Over 10,000 winning photos, going back to 1955. Pretty amazing resource.
29 September 2009
On Editing.
Jake Stangel sent me a link to his new project, Pontiac Dreams. The photos are good, but what struck me -- just in breezing through the work on a first, quick look -- is the editing. I know Jake recently biked across the US (Visual Diary), so I know he came away with tons of photos.
As someone who is bedeviled by editing his own work, I have a profound appreciation for well-edited work, work that flows well and plays off itself and doesn't feel too long or too short.
On a related note, I'm finally getting around to reading part of Looking In Robert Frank's The Americans. It is inspiring and instructive. I've been in a rut with shooting. Everything looks the same. I have piles and piles of negatives and un-edited images. I feel like I should start making sense of what I have before adding more to the heap. But fuck, that just feels like such an insurmountable task. So I'll probably just keep shooting...
03 September 2009
Awesome set of photos by Charles Harbutt, someone I had never heard of until this morning. Turns out he's a former Magnum photographer, current professor at Parson's. Not just good photos, but a really great edit of good photos.
12 June 2009
27 May 2009
19 May 2009
One of my favorite current photographers, Danny Wilcox-Frazier currently has his "Driftless" work on the NY Times Photoblog! I'm proud to say that Mother Jones was the first mag in the US to publish that body of work. It was also the first photo essay I brought to the magazine.
He also did a great multimedia piece on MediaStorm, about Driftless.
Way to go Danny!
18 May 2009
NOTES:
•You've probably seen it, but the New York Times launched a photoblog this week. Nice presentation and some great work. I'm anxious to keep an eye on this as I'm sure it'll be a pace-setting destination for photography.
•Robert Franks' Looking In: The Americans opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this past Saturday. The exhibit takes an in-depth look at Franks' monumental photo book, showing work he'd done leading up to the Americans, the letters he and Walker Evans exchanged as he shot the project, contact sheets, work prints, big, beautiful gallery prints, different editions of the book. The works. As great as the exhibit is, I had slightly high expectations. I was hoping for enlarged contacts, more work that was inspired by Frank. Still, not at all disappointing. I'll probably make at least two or three return trips.
•Also opening this Saturday, the San Francisco Art Exchange is hosting a new exhibit of Rolling Stones photos. This one is titled, Rolling Stones: The Decca Years. It collects the work of 14 different photographers who shot the Stones from 1962 - 1971. Pretty awesome stuff, though not quite as good as the exhibits they've had with the individual photographers (Gered Mankowitz, Ethan Russel, Dominique Tarle).
•It's worth mentioning here that I did a book! It's a Blurb job, but still. Lots of my rock 'n' roll photos, live photos of bands as well as photos of tours I've been on. Live/Loud.
14 May 2009
13 May 2009
Guess I should mention that I have five photos in the Trace Elements exhibit, now up at the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery, right at Van Ness & McAlister in downtown San Francisco.
My photos are part of the Hamburger Eyes section of the show, which focuses on SF photos by SF-area photographers. Ray asked for something mysterious or creepy. I chose five photos from my "Standing In the Shadows" series. Like this one:
I like the photos a lot, but to be honest, I think they're too subtle for that exhibit. They get lost in the jumble of other, larger, more dramatic images. Oh well. It's good to get them seen I guess.
30 January 2009
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