Looking at one photograph at a time
After writing yesterday about the balance of hand-head-heart in my work, I realize that I may be way too head-strong. With that I also imply I may be too left side brainy, which is the analytical and verbal side of our brain. I don't know, perhaps a guy thing or maybe tooo much an engineer. The right... Continue Reading →
I am reading (and re-reading) the article Rigor and Surrender by Bruce Barlow in LensWork #77. An interesting piece and a good self sanity check, or at least for me. My immediate take away deals with the point he makes about a creative person who needs to be aware of three things, their head, their heart and their... Continue Reading →
As I have been going back through my Eastern China photographs, I have been putting my photographs into one of three series. This is the rough cut or as some might label, the straw man. To me it is part of the editing process. It does force me to make decisions, but it is also part... Continue Reading →
Kjell Andersen had a fun little contest posted on his blog and I just found out who the winner is - Me! I have been enjoying his SoFoBoMo book Crossing the River a lot. His book is a quentessianal project with all of the elements that trademark a good series, well seen, wonderfully brought to... Continue Reading →
"Parking Stucture #11", copyright of Rudy Vega A photographer who's work that I have enjoyed recently is Rudy Vega, a local member of The Photographers Exchange, especially his parking structure landscape series. Like Rudy, I am sometimes fascinated by the truncated outlooks you are provided with while driving through a parking structure. Rudy has recognized these interesting juxtapositions that are derived by these... Continue Reading →
Photographs copyright Niels Stomps I found an interesting review by Jeff Ladd on the book Mist by Niels Stomps. Stomps subject is the region of China of the Three Gorges Dam project. I find myself thinking that Stomps work is similar in nature to the photographs I am capturing in Eastern Chian.The underlying context for Stomps work as expressed in this book review... Continue Reading →
While I was putting the finishing touches of the sofbound version of In Passing, I continued to concurrently work my project development process for my China photographs. Over the weekend, I started the development of the artist statements (book introductions) for the three distinct projects coming out of my China experience. I also identifed three buckets (file folders) to move my... Continue Reading →
When I was writing about our trip to Las Vegas a couple of days ago, I just realized that I had an image to post with it, which is this one Heart Broken Fence, part of my project In Passing. In the introduction I wrote about how these road side memorials continue to change. What I saw during... Continue Reading →
This photograph was another strech for me, in many ways. After a flurry of email exchanges with Butzi about the Chinese Hutongs (alleyways of older cities), I had decided to go into one old Hutong in JiaShan that I had seen earlier in the week. It was a nice walk in the Blizzard, the narrow alleyways... Continue Reading →
While in Eastern China during the January blizzard, I continued my interest in photographing people who were a part of the landscape. We were making very slow progress in our journey to Shanghai and the driver thought he knew a shortcut around the constant traffic jam. The shortcut did not work out, but it did... Continue Reading →
