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Bryan Derballa/LoveBryan Interview

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Bryan Derballa of Brooklyn has an interview up about his Lovebryan.com site, which is a sort of journal/photography site hybrid thing. Anyways, Johnny Simon over at the Photoletariat just posted an interview with him that’s a nice quick read, and is also a reminder for me to say please go check out the work of Bryan and his cohorts like Mike Belleme (image below) at Lovebryan.com to witness shenanigans, stories and the ups and downs of life from people who are all good friends but in different places. Bryan’s gotta be one of the nicest photographers I’ve met and is continuously pushing his work.

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Stream of Consciousness Photography

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

So, this is the only time you’ll ever see an iPhone picture on this blog, but if you want to see more you can check out www.ordinarypictures.tumblr.com. This is a new blog I started as an outlet for my photography that is more of just a personal extension of life in general. I know I’m not doing anything original here, but I’ve given in. Shooting with my iPhone is fun, democratic and it frees me from the consideration I normally have when shooting film.

Ordinary Pictures will be updated whenever. Maybe many times in a day, maybe nothing for weeks.

I must give shoutouts to Kainaz Amaria and Noah Devereaux, former classmates of mine who pretty much inspired me to consider the fact that maybe these lo-res phone pictures I’ve been snapping are actually worth sharing. As someone who is geeky about quality this was a hard pill to swallow. Both have some cool work with their Iphones. Kainaz, who is on a Fulbright in India, has even been shooting for NPR with her Iphone.

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Overgrowth

Friday, April 23, 2010

The cultivation of what we are not is often a strange task. The grass was growing at an absurd pace. Then it all died.

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Wall St. Journal: Green Jobs

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Last week I went down to Joliet Jr. College to witness some classes where IBEW (electrical workers union) members are getting training for green jobs…though most of the jobs have yet to materialize in the region. The article by Sudeep Reddy spells out the issue. Visually, a challenging assignment but that’s just fine with me. Here’s an outtake where students are learning to work with variable frequency drives, necessary to balance the wind turbine’s inconsistent power output and transform it into a consistent flow that matches with what our standardized electrical grid utilizes. Hoffman_20100415__DSC7205

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North Park Beach, Waukegan

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

I went to go watch the kitesurfers recently…I think that’s a sport I’d love to get into. Also made a few “sketches”, or brainstorming pictures as I like to call them. Hopefully more to come. Hoffman_theLake_0019_tone .

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Inside Magazine – New Publication

Friday, April 9, 2010

Martin Bandzak, John Vink of Magnum photos and others have work in a new magazine called Inside Magazine financially supported by Slovakaid and other parties. It looks like it’s free for a hard copy as well (you pay shipping) but it’s 432 pages and hardcover. It looks interesting and each issue explores a topic in depth, meant to be kept and explored further down the road, not tossed in the bin. The first topic covered is, yes, the photojournalists’ favorite topic of poverty. But that is not and never will be (until it is eradicated) over covered.

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Bowman’s for TimeOut Chicago

Monday, April 5, 2010

Last month I got a proposal for an interesting story from TimeOut. In October, Rachel Gilliam, a bartender at Bowman’s in Lincoln Square was the victim of a hit and run. The story, which was featured in their bars issue, focused on the space of Bowman’s and the community whose lives she touched. This was a challenging story to illustrate as it was effectively about a person who is not here anymore, but I basically went in with the mindset of photographing what Rachel left behind (in her life related to Bowman’s). They let me shoot it on medium format film, which is always really a treat for any assignment work. The article is written online here by Kari Lydersen who did a really nice job I thought. Hoffman_2010Contacts012 Hoffman_20100225_00150012A

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Selected for AP 26

Monday, March 29, 2010

Last week I got notice that I’d be among the fortunate people who’s work will be featured in the American Photography 26 annual book. What’s even better is that it is one of my personal favorite images. This photograph was made in the early morning hours last fall in Valencia, Spain. I’ve also recently accepted a part time summer position teaching some high school students in Chicago the beginnings of digital photography, through the government college prep program Upward Bound, a part of Columbia College Chicago. This should be really exciting. 21_hoffmaneurope0073

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Green Peppers

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Nags Head, NC

I have developed a taste and interest in green peppers that the 5-year-old me would have been appalled at. These particular peppers weren’t mine, however I did happily help consume them. Spent most of the past week on the road, stopping in Pittsburgh and D.C., mostly getting to and from Nags Head, North Carolina where I visited friends Tim Gruber and Jenn Ackerman for a little bit of beach and a little bit of inspiration from old and new friends. They cooked us breakfast, too. Thanks guys.

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Out my window/Out the door again

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I really love Montmartre in Paris. When I was there I sometimes would just watch people go buy out my fortunately situated hostel window. There aren’t many places in the world that are better for people watching, (and people admiring) than Paris, in my opinion. Never really got around to posting any images but I shot a bunch of scenes outside my window. It was more of a rigid exercise, seeing what I could make from one vantage point and trying to understand what would repeat itself and what subtle things would cause frames to be different from eachother. montmartre-edit1-41 montmartre-edit1-42 montmartre-edit1-48

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And tomorrow I’m off for some days out East…not sure when I’ll be back but it’ll probably be a week give or take a few days.

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Bryan Derballa/LoveBryan Interview

Stream of Consciousness Photography

Overgrowth

Wall St. Journal: Green Jobs

North Park Beach, Waukegan

Inside Magazine – New Publication

Bowman’s for TimeOut Chicago

Selected for AP 26

Green Peppers

Out my window/Out the door again

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