I’ve been working on a few new pieces for my Loop Derivatives series. Sketch from Derivative #21 above.
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Untitled Street #32
Saturday, September 3, 2011
The last few times I’ve been downtown I’ve left the Leica at home and have used my Rollei. It’s been good to throw it into the mix. I’m still not where I’m want to be with this body of work but it is making progress, which is all one can really ask for most of the time.
Website Updated
Sunday, August 28, 2011
I keep putting off updating my site because I keep shooting new work, but I’m a bit sick of putting it off. It’s been busier lately, but it was time to finish the update for now (especially since I think I will be in NYC this fall) and let the new work fall where it may. Recent shoots will have to wait till later (and just recently I’ve worked for Nylon Men’s, the Guardian Weekend Magazine and The New York Times).
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And if you’re here in the Midwest – hell is it nice out today. I’ll be on the trails in a few minutes.
On a side note:
Sometimes I get comments from friends like “every time I go to your website it’s different.” Unfortunately I always feel like it is static for too long. I mean – I am making new photographs every week … whether or not I’m on commission it doesn’t really matter. I feel like if your website isn’t changing at least a few times a year then something must be amiss. How are you growing? What direction is your work going in? I mean, I hope that I’m not making the same images I was a year ago, even if it’s a small change I think one needs to constantly evolve. If you’re working on a big project that can’t see the light of day I understand that, but otherwise…staying still is just….meh. This page is called “Keep Moving” after all…..
Maybe things change once you are a bit older and you’ve settled on your aesthetic and on your vision for good, and you want your site just to be the 40 best images you’ve ever made, but that’s just not how I think right now, and so that’s not what my site reflects. I tend to think in photographic stories and short stories, so to me an image is only as good and as interesting as the ones that surround it. This is how I organize work for the time being…maybe it’s too much imagery or changes too often. But – at least I feel like the website is more accurate to my current work and mindset than a slick advertisement with no substance. I hate slick advertisements with no substance.
Fox River Derivatives in Yo Yo Magazine
Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Chicago run Yo Yo Magazine has a few images from my Fox River Derivatives in their second issue. The magazine is a mixture of art, poetry and narrative. Definitely excited to have work in mixed media and open minded venues such as this one.
Take a look at the work at http://www.yoyomagazine.org/
Big Twin Lake Michigan
Thursday, August 11, 2011
I’ve been really fortunate in that, throughout all the coming and going in my life, I’ve maintained a pretty close-knit group of friends that dates back to the middle of high school. With two of them getting married in the coming month we all headed up to a lake house in Michigan for a recent weekend. Bachelor party jokes aside (we’re a pretty low-key bunch), it was a good reminder of what’s important in life, on many different levels. To have 11 people in one place that you’ve known for years, well, I’m happy that I’m lucky enough to have that.
As for tomorrow – another shoot for a great international client. (I won’t name who until the shoot is in the bag – it’s my bit of superstition). I’m really thankful for that as well.
Recent shoots for NY Times
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Still catching up on a backlog of work from the summer. I was fortunate enough to have had a few shoots for the New York Times here and here. The first story was about the woman who decides the names of different colors for household paints. This is a job I never even considered existing, but it’s pretty great. I love the things that photography exposes me to.
Point Reyes California/Fog
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The trips I took out to the Bay Area this spring served as an exploration into a landscape that is one of the foggiest in the world. This is one of those things I had wanted to photograph for awhile, for various reasons not the least of which being the obscurity that it offers, even on a clear day. I guess I could go deeper into the personal reasons I wanted to see this place but that’s for another time, when I can clarify it a bit better. Eventually I hope to make it to northeastern Canada as well…one of the other foggiest places in the world. This summer’s been a bit too busy for me to really sit down and pore through my negatives yet but the above portrait of a tree is one of my favorite images from the trips. Both trips were good in that they offered different weather and even transformed the same landscape into different hues.
Untitled Street #30
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Summer’s here and I’m burning through rolls again downtown in the loop. Now that I have a decent sized body of street images from the past year it’s interesting to see what I’m drawn to. If there’s anything I know it’s that I’m pretty interested in stepping back as much as possible without having the picture fall apart. Not sure where that threshold is yet but that’s what I want to play around with more this year. And, as always, for me it’s gestures and body language that I find more interesting than pretty much anything else.