Filed under: Exhibits, Mixed Media, Photography | Tags: art, enourmous, gallery, nahotta, nesop, new hampshire, portsmouth, show, stairway, tiny
Okay, so I had a tiny group show in Austin however long ago, but it was only for one night and the room was pretty dark so I’m gonna go ahead and say that doesn’t count.
This one, however, does. It’s at my alma mater in Boston, The New England School of Photography and it’s for the whole month of September so woohoo! The show is hung in a stairway, (still counts!) occupying both walls along with my artist statement.
Filed under: Fine Art, Photography, Pure Awesomeness | Tags: city, hurricane, new, york
The hurricane mostly skipped New York, but not without giving us some ridiculously awesome fog to shoot in.
Filed under: Flickr, Ongoing Project, Photography | Tags: 43, Amani Willett, instruction, now, photography, project, street
“Make something from nothing.” – Amani Willett
I was walking down the street from my house and wandered into the projects. I had no idea they were there, but hey, it’s not like I live in the suburbs. Anyway, across the street there was this gorgeous community garden and beyond that a wall covered in amazing work. I wouldn’t call it “nothing”, but I tried to obscure it with the glare from the setting sun so it wasn’t “something”.
Filed under: Flickr, Ongoing Project, Photography | Tags: 42, instruction, now, photography, project, street, trent parke
“While walking the street constantly look behind yourself, the light is always different.” – Trent Parke
I was taking a photo of the skyline from my roof when I was told to turn around…fitting. I like that the bulldozer seems like it’s spying on her.
I didn’t shoot this for any particular reason. It just struck me as funny and I wanted to share it.
Filed under: Pure Awesomeness
I have always maintained that I would rather eat lard by the spoonfull (and not the loving kind) then photograph a wedding, but when my old schoolmate Alyson Hickey asked me to be her second shooter for a destination wedding in Cape Cod something came over me (a deep desire for money) and I said sure.
It turned out to be an unexpectedly wonderful experience. Alyson has got a gift for shooting those things and all I had to do was wander around and take fun detail shots. It also helped that the couple were about the most awesome people ever!
She’s going to send me all my shots once they’re all sorted, but until then here’s a couple I shot at the reception.
Filed under: Flickr, Ongoing Project, Photography, Pure Awesomeness | Tags: 39, gus powell, instruction, now, photography, project, street
“Don’t ask. Shoot fast.” – Gus Powell
I didn’t ask, but this guy was faster then me. He’s telling me a picture will cost two dollars…thankfully, he was kidding so I didn’t have to make a run for it. :)
Filed under: Flickr, Ongoing Project, Photography | Tags: alex webb, now, photography, project, street
“When you hit that wall of utter frustration while photographing the street, when you are beyond tired and just want to give up, keep on walking – for another hour, or until the light goes entirely. Often the best photographs come when you least expect them – when you are the most exhuasted, and the most emotionally vulnerable.” – Alex Webb
I love this weeks instruction. I went to visit my Mom and Grandma inNorth Carolinaand found this image on the beach.
I thought it was fitting. While I was there I took a few pictures of my Grandma too. It was the first time I was able to shoot her without her being self-conscious. I think that’s comes from this project. I’m much less obtrusive.
Filed under: Pure Awesomeness
Instruction #35
for the Street Photography Now Project
1. Nominate something you are going to go out and hunt for – the more abstract the better
2. Give yourself a time constraint
3. Go out and start work
4. Ask yourself why everything else that you encounter is so much more engaging than what you are hunting for
5. Ask yourself whether the time constraint is a useful tool
- Richard Wentworth
I just moved to Astoria, Queens New York from Austin, Texas so I thought I’d go out in search of something that represented the marriage of the two. I gave myself two hours and was really annoyed to find the one thing I wasn’t looking for…the most literal interpretation possible. Ha! I have no complaints though. Sunday at 10 pm just outside my new home…it was still unexpected and lovely.
However, it was brought to my attention in the comments that I now have enough balloon pictures to start a full-fledged series. How did this happen?! Damn it, Balloons! You’re sneaky.
Filed under: Pure Awesomeness
I knew it was coming, but the move (and mostly the lack of internet) has kept me in seclusion the last week or so. Cut of from society, I was lost in a void of loneliness until I found Sparrow’s free wifi. Now I’m still a little dazed, but functioning and was just delighted to read a blog feature on Ryan Peacock’s street photographer blog.
