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Archive for May, 2009
Food
May 28, 2009More food shots for my 30 Photos in 60 Days project. I’ve gotten about half of them done and still have about another 30 days left, so I’m right on schedule.
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Do more by doing less
May 23, 2009I’ve not been feeling it lately. Not sure what the deal is but this week has been difficult to create new work I’m satisfied with, or any at all for that matter. A lot of things just don’t come together or seem lackluster. I even made some portraits and stupidly didn’t set my camera to the X sync for flash so none of the images came out. That’s something I haven’t done in a really long time. On the up side, I can go back and do them again, so its not a total loss. Maybe I’m not inspired, but that doesn’t really feel like the problem. One potential issue is overthinking things, and that could definitely be a little bit of the problem. When things are going well, you just flow and go along for the ride and sometimes when it seems things aren’t flowing right, one tends to be overzealous or force things, and that just doesn’t fly.
Especially when photographing people, I can tend to get impatient. Portraits take time; that’s the main ingredient and at times my patience is lacking. But I recognize this and will try harder by trying less. It reminds me of the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where Paul Rudd’s character plays a surf instructor teaching Jason Segal to suff and admonishing him, “don’t try to surf, don’t do anything, just don’t do it”, he says. He then tells him to jump up from lying on his board but this time when he does it to do less. So Jason just lies there, and Paul says,”Well no, you gotta do more than that.” I think that is the situation going on here.
Burton Street Community
May 20, 2009The Mountain Xpress has put together a great photo essay on a community faced with eminent domain from interstate expansion. I worked with the Xpress on this story, along with a handful of other local photographers, including some from the ASMP, in bringing this documentation to a reality. The project began three months ago, and in that time photographers and journalists have documented, interviewed and spoken with many residents to learn how they and the neighborhood as a whole would be impacted.
The Burton Street Community is historic and one of the oldest communities in Asheville. Many of the residents have lived there their whole lives and are even the second or third generation in their family to do so. Not all of the proposed interstate plans would have as large an impact on the community, but there are a couple of the alternatives that would raze several houses and leave a large, ignominious sound wall. Hopefully our documentation on this community will bring awareness to the rich culture of the neighborhood and its significance to many people.
May 4, 2009
Got back from a weekend in Atlanta. Went by Jackson Fine Art, which was great. I didn’t realized that they were strictly a photography gallery. They have a good mix of classic and contemporary photography. Their current exhibition is of Masao Yamamoto and Masato Seto.
Last week I also started working on a little project for a group show we’re putting on through the ASMP of NC. The title is 30 images in 60 days. The subject matter is up to the photographer. I think the photos need to be of a certain subject or theme, otherwise they’ll be no unity or cohesion, so I decided to photograph meals my family eats. Over the course of 60 days I can photography the food and make some interesting photos. Here are a few I’ve started with.
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