Dec 2009
wild clamshell
12/20/09
Hello, I am Clammy, a clamshell orchid living in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve. Please help me continue to save other orchids growing here.
photos are cheap
12/18/09
There was something in his work for the
photofetishist in all of us... even the extreme,
perverse, decadent photographers had nothing on
him, his work is more lush, more incomplete, more
lucid and pregnant at the same time. They were all
printed perfectly too, we brought out the 500W
spotlight just to indulge ourselves in the blacks.
I was just a TA at the time, not the fashion
photographer I am now (yes, I carved out a semi
glamorous life for myself), but everyone in the
room, John, the professor, the other TA Samantha,
all of us wanted to give up photography completely,
nothing we had ever done could prepare us for the
explosive, mind expanding experience that were his
photos. Nudes, macros, fashion, landscape, gizelle,
urban decay, blood, India, Aberystwyth, Hong Kong,
70’s archival, the rarest orchids guarded by guys
with AK-47’s, the golden temple during Holi at 3am
using slow sync flash.
We got together at the starbucks after the encounter, looking at each other spellbound. We all wanted to knock him off, we knew that, but we had no idea how... was it even possible that someone could distance themselves from the field like this, with a billion photographers in the world?
What was he thinking?
How did he get that?
Is that... x? I’ve never seen that portrait of x?
(where x is an item highly coveted by photographers)
Before everybody, executed better than everybody, how? What was this man’s inspiration?
---From my new book, “photos are cheap”
We got together at the starbucks after the encounter, looking at each other spellbound. We all wanted to knock him off, we knew that, but we had no idea how... was it even possible that someone could distance themselves from the field like this, with a billion photographers in the world?
What was he thinking?
How did he get that?
Is that... x? I’ve never seen that portrait of x?
(where x is an item highly coveted by photographers)
Before everybody, executed better than everybody, how? What was this man’s inspiration?
---From my new book, “photos are cheap”
teh nyc
12/05/09
There are high school bands from all over the country that come to NYC for the thanksgiving day parade, you can tell what a special day it is for them, everything is shiny and all the kids are focused. Really really cool.
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