Looking at one photograph at a time
The Middle Ground special edition box set is now released by Fabrik Press, part of Fabrik Media, the book's publisher and is now officially published! As I discussed earlier, the box set development took a little bit longer than I had expected. Nevertheless it is now available for purchase, either from Photobooks International or directly... Continue Reading →
Last night was a wonderful opening reception at Fabrik Projects for their Summer Group Show with a nice opportunity to exhibit two of my photographs, Ghost and Changes, from my Memory Pods project. I felt fortunate that my photographs were exhibited on the only dark gray wall in the gallery as this framed these two photographs... Continue Reading →
Last night was a fun, interactive and interesting discussion about Photographic Books as Art at the Pasadena Photographic Arts (PPA). I was a presenter in the PPA's Forum Series of artist, curators & photographer talks. A nice thank you to Douglas Hill and Bill Wishner for their invitation, providing a very nice introduction and for... Continue Reading →
Watching the second night of the second round of the Democratic President debates in Detroit last night to obtain some more information as to who is going to be the next American President. As expected, one of the many issues was immigration, pathway to American citizenship, illegal border crossing, deportation and indirectly the American-Mexican border... Continue Reading →
With the ongoing border wall issues created by the current American president it just seems that my Middle Ground project will always have some relevancy. When I self-published the Middle Ground artist book concurrently with my solo exhibition at Fabrik Projects, Chris Davies, the owner of the gallery, asked if I would also be interested... Continue Reading →
I have the pleasure of being one of the two judges, along with Gerry Clausing, Associate Editor of PhotoBook Journal, for the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) first Photo Book Competition. Cool! There are two basics & very broad photobook catagories: 1) Self-published (blurb, lulu etc) and all hand-made artists books 2) Published works... Continue Reading →
Left coast photobook News; I will be presenting "Photography Books as Art" at the upcoming Pasadena Photographic Arts (PPA) Forum series on August 8th, 2019. Although this is a FREE event, you are requested to make a reservation as seating is limited. Photobooks have almost become ubiquitous in this digital age with a steady stream... Continue Reading →
My artist book Middle Ground is now available at a third US bookstore; Photobooks International. Nice! This virtual bookstore also has a small retail space at Fabrik Projects gallery (Los Angeles near Culver City) where there are a few copies of this limited edition book are available to check out. Middle Ground is also available at Grenade... Continue Reading →
My attention to my Middle Ground artist book has been on hiatus for a short time; in retrospect I think that all of the leporello book binding I completed for this artist book edition in conjunction with preparing for the solo exhibition really took it out of me. It was pretty intense experience, but when a... Continue Reading →
