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Out my window/Out the door again

Peter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:37:56 +0000

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.

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.

Dinner at Jim Haynes

Peter — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:56:04 +0000

On our last night in Paris (Sept. 6) we had the good fortune of getting on the guest list for dinner at Jim Hayne’s home. I can’t remember everyone out of the many people I met but I know I had a great time, and made some good contacts. The man is a legend, and eating dinner there you feel like you are part of a certain society, group, breed of people…something. You feel like you know something good about the world that the rest of folks have yet to realize. If you want to know what the heck I am talking about this should be a good start.

On another note, tomorrow I’m excited to be photographing Chicago’s North Ave. Beach as part of a global coastline clean-up effort for the Ocean Conservancy through Aurora Select, a NY Agency who’s contracted me to do the work. I’ll be one of twenty something photographers the world over and am in some very good company.

Rain in Montmartre

Peter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:50:06 +0000

I’m staying in Montmarte in Paris. Not knowing much about the place I love that I lucked out to this neighborhood. Not too far from my room you can overlook the city. This might be the first stop on this trip where I might feel like I didn’t have enough time here.

Eggleston’s Paris

Peter — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:05:23 +0000

The book release is coming. I can’t wait. I remember in my first college photo class, after I came back from an assignment with a bunch of pictures of a white truck in the woods, shot for no apparent reason other than I always jogged by the site and found it curious, my professor Luke Batten of New Catalogue suggested I look at the work of William Eggleston. I checked it out. I hated it. At that point all I wanted to do was make overly lit, commercial looking images with a fisheye lens, often times of skateboarders flying down handrails. I thought Chip Simons was fantastic.

Thanks to photojournalism I’ve fallen in love with honesty in photographs, but really get frustrated by the sensationalist content often produced. People like Eggleston, Sam Abell and others who focus on the “normal” in life, and not the always the pinnacle moments represent the world best, I feel. I can’t wait for Eggleston’s new book. I’m not really a “book head” or totally in touch with the photo art world, generally I would rather be out making pictures, but this will be the first book that this nearly broke kid ever pre-orders. Maybe the new Alec Soth book will be the next.

Check out the brief Telegraph Article and video