Monday, December 17, 2007

Thursday, November 29, 2007






I have been working on a project focusing on place. I wanted to investigate all the ways it changes, literally through time and psychologically through our own memories and sense of connection or disassociation with the physical location. Then, I decided to try to insert more of a personal aspect for me and began taking my childhood friend, Bunny, with me and putting him into the frame. This refers to a more universal childhood but then the condition of the rabbit, tattered and worn, seems to refer to a bygone time. I'm putting this out there, wondering what others think.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007





I was inspired by my good friend, Pixy, this week and shot some night time photographs. I think there is an eery quality created by the distortion of color and a transition from the idea of place to the feeling it evokes. I'm still adjusting the color but just curious what everyone else thinks...

Friday, November 9, 2007



I've been thinking about whose work I am interested in, though not necessarily emulating. Why not, right? I would love to try something like this- Boltanski incorporates light elements, wire and photographs. In the movie White Oleander, the mother creates photograph/light sculptures in the same vein- I wonder who created those for the movie?

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Images from this summer







These images are from this summer; I forgot to post them before. I was thinking about how I deal with space; I tend to always have one dominant subject that becomes isolated in front of the background. For the last 2 years, I've been working with objects, trying to photograph their anthropomorphic qualities by illustrating a relationship between a couple or many objects, loosely based on Aaron Siskind's idea of an object's "force," or energy. Now, I am moving more to the space that an object inhabits and how [it] converses with its environment. Anyway, I am working out these thoughts as I start to formulate my thesis and I welcome any suggestions or criticisms.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007



Savannah Trip

I just returned from a trip to Savannah for a photo conference. While there, I had a little bit of time to photograph the city, out at Tybee island (as a West-coaster, it was my first dip in the Atlantic!), and some odds and ends which I encountered. I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Sam Wang, a really wonderful photographer and speaker. Other than that, just returning to a state of normalcy, also known as chaos. As I enter thesis territory, the anxiety level seems to be rising as the energy level wanes; such is life.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

So, I posted a few images when I started my blog, but didn't say anything about them. My work is changing a lot right now, and I hesitate to talk about it, honestly because I'm not sure what I think. I'm in a strange place; I come from a traditional silver gelatin background and fell in love with C-printing early this year. Then, I bought a digital camera. I'm having trouble reminding myself that it [camera] is just a tool, that image-creating is a process and be it digital, 4X5, Holga, whatever, the tool is just that. I keep feeling like a traitor to the darkroom; like my Beseler is feeling lonely and unfilled alone in the darkroom. Why is that so hard? I'm having so much fun with the spontaeity that digital offers that I am no longer worried about spending too much film. Yes, I am enjoying my fling with digital, I admit it. We'll see where this relationship goes.