May 26th, 2010

I have been asked by Марина Джигарханян the Head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the “Manege” Central Exhibition Hall, to exhibit my bodyscape collection at the Saint-Petersburg Photo Vernissag. This invitation-only photo exhibit, will be hung in September 2010 in St. Petersburg Russia. For the selection of my images to show I am going to depend heavily upon the process of social selection.

Here is the theme of the show (note: English is a 2nd language for the curator):
At the heart of fashion lies an individual style, and her world – a self-contained space, absorbing a wide range of phenomena. Through them a man expresses his attitude to external forms of culture: lifestyle, serving and table manners, cars, clothing, thus trying to show their place in society, their sexuality, location, class, status level and belonging to a particular group. Photocamera gives us an opportunity to capture different aspects of fashion, its endless cyclicism and change of artistic images, which always embody the era image in a clothing. This subject gives participants a wide opportunities for philosophical reflections and artistic self-expression.
Click Here to view the images and cast your vote.

May 24th, 2010

A time lapse from the Upper Pent House of Ten Museum. When I view this what I am struck by is just how far removed from the world this perspective places you.
Music by http://thomasdanewagener.com/.

May 23rd, 2010

A gentlemen in Brickle hired me to take a time lapse of the view from his apartment before he moved. After hours of video editing, flicker reduction, and searching for an appropriate sound track here it is:

Music by Tom Wagener

May 22nd, 2010

See More of Keisha and Pernell’s Big Day

May 22nd, 2010

See More of Erin and John’s Big Day

May 14th, 2010

I’ve been invited to show my bodyscapes at the the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg in Russia. Before making a final selection of my work to show I did one last shoot.
This is a social selection process, which means I want you, the reader, to leave a comment with your favorite image and what you think it should be named.

See the images and leave a comment with your choice

May 12th, 2010

What is a portrait? Does the subject have to be facing you? Must they be the only one in the frame? How much of the frame does the person have to take up to be a “portrait”? Do they have to be looking at the camera? Do you have to be able to see their face?

I remember these questions coming up in a commercial photography class when I was studying photography at Ohio University. During the class we were required to take a “non-traditional portrait”.

This last weekend I accidentally relived this class. I had a camping trip with a group of 30 friends and took my camera along with no real goals – just to have it with me for whatever struck me. It was only after the trip when I sat down to edit the images that I realized that 90% of the shots were portraits. When I say this I don’t just mean that 90% of the images had a person in them – having a person in the picture does not make it a portrait. I mean that 90% of the frames captured something interesting I saw in their personality, mannerisms, or character.

I owe an enormous amount to the work of Stephen Kennedy, from whom the style of several of these images is blatantly lifted (hopefully with my own additional style mixed in).

See all my portraits from this trip