traces

siesta

2009-09-12T23:42:00.004-04:00

i love window breeze and late morning light. oh, and neck pulses. i love neck pulses too.

2009-09-06T13:10:00.000-04:00

cliffmonkeys

2009-08-07T15:01:00.001-04:00

chimney bluffs (upstate ny)

2009-07-16T11:46:00.001-04:00

2009-07-05T21:57:00.001-04:00

love how the face of this moss-rock actually looks like a giant's face in profile.

2009-06-21T17:22:00.000-04:00

just an outtake from an older shoot

2009-06-20T12:24:00.000-04:00

birthday

2009-06-13T23:27:00.003-04:00

(born today. 27 years ago)

2009-05-31T12:12:00.001-04:00

i just love the shape of these rocks. bird's paradise.

2009-05-31T10:40:00.000-04:00

that's volcanic ash atop those icebergs.

2009-05-27T22:11:00.001-04:00

2009-05-25T16:12:00.005-04:00

as always, images are being compressed/crunched by the blog. but i'll be throwing a bunch of iceland outtake photos up here for lack of a better place to put them. can't really tell in the second photo down, but i'm standing on the edge of that cliff!

(gravitational) pull (b&w)

2009-03-24T00:15:00.005-04:00

these black and white tones aren't looking their best here on the blog.

(moving) self-portrait

2009-03-11T22:37:00.006-04:00

just testing out the video feature on my little point and shoot. might do more of these. short videos i mean... (not specifically cheesy self-portrait videos). the original source material looks ok, though they're suffering some quality loss and getting a little digitized/compressed here on the blog.

my sinking ship

2009-02-22T23:10:00.003-05:00

2009-02-22T23:07:00.001-05:00

the visitor (extras)

2009-02-17T21:50:00.004-05:00

the surface of water

2009-02-12T23:12:00.003-05:00

180

2009-02-04T21:00:00.001-05:00

180 magazine recently contacted me to a little interview. you can check it out here if you'd like!

my ring light

2009-02-02T22:09:00.005-05:00

measures approximately 2 feet in diameter and houses 20 bulbs. sits atop an old projector screen tripod.

bot-obsessed

2009-01-04T18:36:00.009-05:00

as if i needed further evidence of how cool my dad is... (he built me a robot for christmas!)

i had mentioned having an idea for a small photo project involving a robot quite a while back, and i knew my dad was collecting vintage parts. just wasn't expecting my very own bot this soon. hopefully i'll get a chance to bring him/her/it to life soon. these pictures really don't do it justice.

dad also found the time to build me a large ring light for christmas. literally the most impressively home-assembled ring light i've ever seen (and i've seen lots!). pictures of that and using that to follow soon. :)

also...happy new year to all of you!

Paris in winter

2008-12-30T18:42:00.004-05:00

i was recently commissioned by a french ad agency to do a campaign for a clothing store in paris (the concept was based on a pre-existing image of mine, but required an additional accompanying image and a complete re-shoot). so two of my photographs are currently up on billboards and storefronts across paris (though i have not personally seen them!)

these two images above are screen captures from the store website. :) you can view my original photographs for this campaign in the "commissions" section on my website.

publications

2008-12-10T22:02:00.007-05:00

a couple of publications my photos made it into in September. just got around to making scans/taking pics of the magazines this week!

McAllister

2008-11-30T20:01:00.003-05:00

just an older image of mine that needed a home

2008-11-23T17:20:00.005-05:00

2008-11-23T17:05:00.005-05:00

2008-11-23T16:51:00.008-05:00

haven't really been content with anything i've shot lately, but happy to give these images a home on my blog.

2008-11-16T22:34:00.002-05:00

still alive

2008-10-28T21:34:00.006-04:00

just a quick post - a portrait that i took several months ago that i've always kind of liked. AND evidence that i'm still alive! i've been going through a serious funk, but i'm going to kick myself into gear and return with a vengeance very soon. just you watch.

Counterpoint

2008-10-07T09:55:00.009-04:00

For any of you living in NYC (or for those of you who may be visiting soon) I highly recommend going to check out the Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison "Counterpoint" exhibit at the Jack Shainman Gallery. (running from October 10th-November 8th). This husband and wife team are brilliant together, and their photographic creations are amongst my favorites.

Jack Shainman Gallery

513 West 20th Street

NY, NY 10011

212-645-1701

Oct 10-Nov 8

(these particular ParkeHarrison images are not from the 'Counterpoint' exhibit)

summer sea

2008-09-16T22:16:00.003-04:00

taken at the same time as this

The Blur

2008-09-10T20:56:00.007-04:00

i've needed glasses and/or contacts since the age of six. without them, i'm pretty useless beyond 4 feet. i'm a visual creature. i live and breathe through my eyes. and i really wish i had better "unassisted" vision. but at the same time, i've kind of fallen in love with the blur. the soft mystery of the world when my eyes are bare. the way the light seems to take on an ethereal quality and just bleed into objects and forms. an ocean of soft shapes and bokeh and liquid light. how could that be bad? (i mean unless you're driving of course ;) sometimes my broken eyes remind me of the light effects i can achieve with polaroid. and sometimes the blur just feels more natural.

9.3

2008-09-03T22:06:00.001-04:00

chucks

2008-08-26T22:46:00.002-04:00

color version of a photo posted here

pipe dreams

2008-08-24T20:57:00.006-04:00

an image i was working on as part of a series. was never satisfied with any of my efforts on this one. decided it could have a home here though!

sand between your claws

2008-08-24T20:45:00.004-04:00

went out to montauk for the day, (such a beautiful place) and all i took were a few pictures on ein on the beach. figures :)

pola-summer

2008-08-07T21:14:00.004-04:00

polaroid 600SE images

gimme some sugar

2008-08-03T21:35:00.007-04:00

alternate version of this.

beams

2008-08-01T09:41:00.002-04:00

just a quick snap before taking down my "studio" lights for the night.

pola-home

2008-07-31T23:09:00.004-04:00

one of my favorite things about having a blog now is having a place to put my polaroids that would otherwise never see the light of day. all polaroids deserve a home. :)

nada

2008-07-28T09:41:00.009-04:00

images of david sitek (of 'tv on the radio' fame) taken for a british magazine called "another magazine" - http://www.anothermag.com/. the top image was selected for publication in their fall/winter issue and will accompany a short piece written by david on what the most important thing to him is (to which his answer was 'nothing').

wet your whistle

2008-07-27T17:24:00.005-04:00

a polaroid outtake from this same shoot that compositionally didn't quite turn out how i had hoped. these days i only give an idea a few attempts before choosing not to waist any more of my precious film reserves getting it right!