in passing

These are two images from this past fall. They are different then the children, but I feel that they fit, or maybe I want them to :) Give me your opinions. When I get the next opportunity I will scan my new work to get some feedback during the process. Take care.

another face

Hey

here are a few new photographs, hope all is well. :)

northbound travel

spent last sunday in seattle on a school field trip. went to seattle art museum (sam!). saw a small edward hopper exhibition, focused on his paintings of women. the most interesting part was the curators contextualized the paintings with photography from the same era. turns out, hopper really admired a number of contemporaneous street photographers (evans, model, etc). he was even quoted as saying he wished he could paint more like a photographer - to capture the moment as accurately as a photograph (ha!). there were also some great quotes (did not write them down due to overcrowded gallery) about his love of watching. how he would go to crowded places just to watch people, where he would study their expressions/emotions during moments of repose. all of this obviously shows up in his work. but what i found so interesting were similar quotes from walker evans. how the two were kind of just obsessed with watching people, in their own way. i guess, we all do it, right?

thought all of this was relevant to our recent discussions regarding capturing the reality of a moment and being fascinated by the people around us.

in addition the hopper, exhibit, i saw this ceramic camera:

titled "likeaflex superzoom." fantastic, right?!

and in honor of the great watchers, i had a blast wandering around a city that's pretty foreign to me taking photos. no purpose. just practicing taking photos of the things that normally, i'm just watching.











still don't know what or why i'm doing this. and yet it seems important. like practice for something.

A Taste of the Spanish School.

Here are some images that I have been playing with from my piece that I am working on for my El Salvador project on The Spanish school.  In El Salvador, unlike say... Mexico, you can not get my with English,  hardly anyone can speak English enough to help you get by.  In the town of Suchitoto they have developed a program for visitors of the country.  the locals teach Spanish to visitors, all classes are taught completely in Spanish, English, or any other language for that matter is not aloud to be spoken while class is in session.

Environmental Portrait

Here is something I just handed in for class, we had to shoot environmental portraits.  This is Dave, he is one of my subjects for my "Generation Y and the economic crisis" piece.  He is a recent UD grad that landed his first full time job here in DC at a non prophet.  For the next few months I will be studying him as well as others in the age bracket.

temporary conclusion of night work

this is the last batch of stuff i shot at night during the previous 2 months. haven't been inspired to get out and shoot since. i have a feeling as soon as things start blooming, i'll be back out.

random

my fav image from a couple weeks ago...at internship:

perception

kids

These are two color images that I finally managed to scan. Hence the title of the post, they are both of children, which I find peculiar compared to the men that usually fill my frame. Recently, I want to focus the color work on looking through windows I pass by, primarily store scenes and laundry mat colors, and going into shopping malls or indoor arenas. I'm also keeping with black and white and seeing how spontaneous it can go :) Let me know your thoughts.

father son, and really pretty pictures

We were discussing Elijah Gowin and his photographer father Emmet. (Tricia I know you know of them well)


I find it interesting to think about the context of the images, fragility of the environment, threat of technology, reality of photography... and look at the work of Elijah and then the work of Emmet (or vise versa). They have similar roots but there are very interesting differences, generational differences. We are pretty much the generation after Elijah.. so lets see.

welcome to the world inside my head

as much as i hate to say it, i think i might like this photoshop collage thing! what's happening to me?!?!?! soon, i'll be drawing and painting on my photos, too! this was really sort of fun and fast to make once i figured out a direction. granted it took me a week to get over the whole idea of making a "photo collage" out of scans. compositionally, it still needs something bottom right, but i'm ok with it as-is, for the quick example that it is.



a prize goes to the person who can correctly id all of the different objects used to make up the image.

watching

i ride public transportation almost every day to school. mostly the bus, but occasionally the light rail (that sucks as it requires walking a mile uphill, both ways...usually in the snow). like erika, i often find myself staring or captivated by someone on the bus or something that flashed past in the window. such as:

on the bus:










on the train:






it feels really strange to post this stuff as they're all more sketches (if that) than actual focused ideas. none of this revolves around a central concept. there is no theory or artist statement to accompany. frankly, it all feels rather snapshot-ish. is that evident? is that bad? is that good? is that just a thing? i think i feel kind of vulnerable posting these, as i have no idea what i'm doing with them. and yet, i'm curious...feedback? that and the process of editing them and putting them out there is helping me think about the work. erika, i'm looking to you as my editing guru...if you made this a series, what would you hack and why?

thanks for letting me share and any for fedback/comments!