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.
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.
Kraków | Anita
There are magical moments in this life.
Bring your camera.
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.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Chaise, Shirt VIII
Arnold Newman | Portraits
If it’s a good photograph and says something about the person, than I think it’s a good portrait.
Bucharest | Sir Richard Bishop
It was 1984 in Washington, DC, at the height of that city’s legendary hardcore punk scene. We were young, aggressive and frustrated, and though not dumb, the amount of things we didn’t know were huge.
Raising Arizona | Hi’s Letter to Ed
My dearest Edwina,
Tonight, as you and Nathan slumber, my heart is filled with anguish.
Barcelona | Nefka I
John Malmin | Darkness Falls in Watts
Aug. 13, 1965: National Guard troops secure a stretch of 103rd Street, dubbed Charcoal Alley, in Watts
Saint Petersburg | Anastasia, I
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.
Los Angeles | Christina
Hiroshi Watanabe | Suo Sarumawashi
Sarumawashi, literally “monkey dancing” evolved over a 1000-year history in Japan.
Exarcheia | Anthi I
In the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens.
Akira Kurosawa | Group Compositions in Seven Samurai
All of his films contain his usual bravura compositions, but it is with his ensemble films like Seven Samurai and High and Low that you get to see Kurosawa craft such classic fluid group compositions, sometimes composed of a dozen actors, never crowded or confusing, always clear and focused, the menagerie acting like a visual chorus.
Istanbul | Kanaat Lokantasi
At Kanaat Lokantas in Kadıköy, Istanbul.
I spent a few weeks in Istanbul, taking the ferries every day. No agenda, no plans, just taking random ferries to the Asia side of the Bosphorus. I’d wander the neighborhood, shoot the streets and people, settle down some place for lunch.
Constantine | Tilda Swinton as Gabriel
There are few things finer than this casting choice and styling.
Hanoi | Big Toe
One of my favorite images.
The reasons?
