Apr/101
New Book
A few weeks ago I finished printing my new book, custom made by Scott Mullenberg, who is an amazing portfolio artist based in Biddeford, ME. He worked with me in hand-picking the materials and on the back-and-forth of the design in all its iterations. Book and slipcase were collaboratively designed by me and my good friend Kim Karston, and I owe her huge thanks for all her help.
I realize very soon we'll all be marketing ourselves in person and otherwise with the iPad or something like it, but there's still something inexplicable about seeing the work printed. It's well worth the expense. The pages are 12x12 on Moab Entrada Rag paper, which looks amazing when printing B&W 4x5 Polaroids (or anything else, for that matter). I'd post interior photos, but they wouldn't do it justice. Wanna see it? Come on over and I'll make some espresso.
The first two photos came from Scott's studio; the last two are thanks to Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir - taken while we visited friends at Bitfire in Manhattan.
Apr/101
a viable alternative
“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.”
-Charles Bukowski
Apr/102
Little writeup in Popular Photography Magazine
It's been a crazy month and now that it's off the newsstands I'm finally getting around to posting the news. Popular Photography Magazine did a feature on me for their "Creative Thinking" section of the March 2010 issue. Click below to see:
Of course, it's primarily for amateur photographers, so it deals more with the process of shutter/aperature and post processing than it does with any broad views of making good pictures - though it's still nice to get attention, especially in a magazine with such a huge circulation. Since it was published, I've been contacted by a handful of photo students wanting to do final reports on me, and a few assistants in the general mid-Atlantic area who want to be on set when I shoot. It's a little surreal. Though it says I'm a New York-based fashion photographer ... I suppose that's the much sexier version of a DC-based editorial photographer ...
Thanks again Larry for getting in touch; it was a really fun interview.
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