Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
I recently received a comment on one of my China suburban landscape photographs about the camera I used and the "style" that it implied; e.g. apparent that I had used a small digital sensor, but the image looked like one from a medium or large format camera. I know that there are a lot of side conversations about a photographers "style",... 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 →
Looking back, many of my photos from China are not that bright and colorful, but I wanted to present a little more balance view. There were my expectations of China, Mao comes immediately to mind. One of the first nights while visiting Shanghai, we ventured over to Nanjing Road, a short walk from the downtown hotel.... 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 →
"Watering Hole" copyright of Amy Stein I had an opportunity to review a local exhibit that inculded the work of Amy Stein and a couple of other photographers. In my role as the editor of the The Photo Exchange, I am more of a reporter versus a true reviewer. Perhaps that will evolve over time.... 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 →
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