About Face is currently up at Pier24 in San Francisco until April 30, 2013. Although I haven’t seen it, yet, I thought I’d share some of the faces I’ve been shooting over the past few weeks.
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1 comments +Married in Manhattan, Honeymooned in France and Italy
It’s been a minute since my last blog post. I got married in late September, honeymooned for the first two weeks of October, came back threw a studio party and hit the ground running with tons of work. I’m finally catching up, going through the 4000+ images I shot while we we’re in Europe and getting a feel for what our wedding photographer grabbed.
My good friend, Matt, shot the above picture on The High Line in Manhattan. He met us in NYC and followed us around for the day. I love Matt’s work mostly because he takes his time when he shoots; he picked up a camera for the first time about 18 months ago. He’s a film guy, Polaroid and 2¼ stuff for the most part (although I’ve seen some Leica’s in his hand too) so he never really learned how to spray and pray.
I’m not going to bore you with a bunch of wedding pictures or even a bunch of honeymoon pictures but if you’re interested in seeing street scenes and structures from France and Italy feel free to hit the jump.
Our Version Of School Portraits
My 8-year old son and I have plenty of traditions. We ride rollercoaster’s on Father’s Day. We eat pizza in the living room on boy’s night. We start our Christmas playlist in early November and we do our version of school pictures every year.
Ethan started the 4th grade today and I’m a proud papa so hit the jump to see the rest of the school portraits we did over the weekend together.
Polaroid Portrait Project
I hung 28 Polaroids in Greenville SC this week. Here's the artist statement:
I picked up a Polaroid camera to experiment with the idea of the raw image. In a world that is saturated with over-processed images, magazine covers that are, at the very least, a fragment of the truth, and composites of anything imaginable, I wanted to experiment with the idea of one-shot images that were unable to be misrepresented. This is a growing collection of friends, family, and the people I bump into on a day-to-day basis, in one shot.
The 4x8-Foot Panel Board Formula
I have been creating sets in the studio that essentially follow the four-foot by eight-foot panel-board formula.
Generally speaking I’ve been taking four-foot by eight-foot thrifty white panel (the same white panel board that Mr. OneLight speaks of here) and hanging it horizontal from the ceiling to create my backdrops. I then paint it or wheat-paste newspapers to it, hang burlap over it, drag Christmas lights over it, stick stuff to it, the list is never-ending and the set up is simple. That’s it, one $11 board and some ideas and you have endless opportunities to create interesting and unique pictures.
So this time it happened to be four-feet by four-feet and not four-feet by eight-feet and it cost $75 not $11 but I couldn’t help myself.
The above image is a four foot by four foot piece of movie-theater ticket-window glass that was already
Job Shop
I set this one up as a tribute of sorts for all of my newspaper buddies. I started out as a photojournalist and from time to time I really miss it; with furlough days and layoffs it’s not a pretty industry to be working in right now though. These are also all of my grandmother’s newspapers (she’s the only person I know who continues to have them delivered to the door and still does the crosswords, everyday – you’ll see her handwriting folded over in the middle of the desk) and I used my grandfather’s Zippo and typewriter too, so I guess it’s a bit of a tribute to them as well.
The set up is cheap and simple really. I find half the battle in photography to be coming up with ideas not the technical side of things. The other half is being able to afford the ideas. This set cost me $14. Here’s how it all breaks down:
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