Chasing LightWelcome. This is where I share my work and also the work of others, those that inspire me, the weird, the great, the unusual.
It is a goddamn marvel this life. Take a look.
Roy de Carava | “El” Train
Jean Gaumy | José Saramago
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels.
Marc Riboud | Chartres, France 1953
The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit.
Mary Ellen Mark | Oaxaca Workshop Review, Pt 4
These were images that did not make the final cut by Mary Ellen. These were chosen during my daily critique with her, made into work prints, and part of the work presented to the other students on the final day.
Frédéric Huijbregts | Paris, 1978
Mary Ellen Mark | Oaxaca Workshop Review, Pt 3
These were my images that Mary Ellen chose to be part of the final review. I am proud of them but there were also others that I am immensely fond of that she did not choose
André Kertész | Chez Mondrian
I went to his studio and instinctively tried to capture in my photographs the spirit of his paintings. He simplified, simplified, simplified.
Mary Ellen Mark | Oaxaca Workshop Review, Pt 2
The first day of the workshop is devoted to reviewing each student’s work in front of the entire class. There are a lot of students and while everyone wished for more one on one time with Mary Ellen, her critiques are incisive and cutting.
Mary Ellen Mark | Oaxaca Workshop Review, Pt 1
In June 2012, I participated in Mary Ellen Mark’s legendary Oaxaca Photo Workshop, running in its sixteenth year.
My review of this workshop will be in four posts. This, the first, will detail the workshop as a whole. The second will be my personal experience, goals and results from the workshop. Then I will post the images that Mary Ellen selected, followed by the honorable mentions.
Hiroshi Watanabe | Places
I go to places that captivate and intrigue me. I am interested in what humans do.
André Kertész | Underwater Swimmer, 1917
After I was wounded [in WWI] I was in the hospital for almost nine months. We went swimming in the pool every day, and I realized the distortions in the water.
Arnold Newman | Portraits
If it’s a good photograph and says something about the person, than I think it’s a good portrait.
John Malmin | Darkness Falls in Watts
Aug. 13, 1965: National Guard troops secure a stretch of 103rd Street, dubbed Charcoal Alley, in Watts
Werner Herzog | On Celluloid
Celluloid? No, I am not nostalgic. I still love it. Of course I love it. But digital film making has helped me to work faster and to work less expensively. So that’s why all of a sudden I’m coming out with four films, all of them ready for distribution. The system of distribution is too slow for my output.
Hiroshi Watanabe | Suo Sarumawashi
Sarumawashi, literally “monkey dancing” evolved over a 1000-year history in Japan.
André Kertész | Landing Pigeon, New York, 1960
This was taken around 59th Street where they had demolished the houses, and I saw a pigeon flying in and out.
Arthur C. Clarke | The HAL – IBM Myth
And I’ve been trying for years to stamp out the legend that the word, that the letters HAL was derived from IBM by one letter displacement.
Helmut Newton | Cindy Crawford’s Legs
The woman in the image can be mysterious and to me I think it’s important that she is mysterious.
Garry Winogrand | Leica M4
Garry Winogrand's Leica M4
Ann Ray | Willem Dafoe
In the middle of the night, a group of baboons came down and went through our packs and all that stuff.