Jacqui

Portrait of my friend Jacqui.

Let's Bee Lovies...

I could write a tremendously long book about the internal struggle I face between choosing a career in wedding photography or fashion portraiture, or I can just show pictures of my wedding photography.
Truth: I love weddings, beautiful women that love to be photographed, beautiful things, and people that love the photos I take of them.

Larissa and Jason married this Saturday at Hunter Mountain Resort in Hunter, NY. Just outside of Albany and super beautiful.
I photographed as a second shooter for a wonderful NYC based photographer Michael Simon.
Mom, you would have looooooved this place. It is like Ruidoso on steroids.
This is why I love wedding photography...

For Veronica Hansen

Since I haven't been posting "new" photography anyway, take this. It sums up many thing about being a lady photographer. Veronica Hansen is one of my fabulous lady photographer friends making it in the big city. If you think being an artist is hard, try being a lady artist...

poster by the Guerrilla Girls

Daguerro deux

I went out and quickly came back only to photoshop again...
so many thing.

Daguerreian experiment

If I had access to huge vats of mercury, hot plates, and wood boxes I would probably be making daguerrotypes all day...
Photo of my mom. I'm a lucky gal.

Handtinting

My love for handtinting. After a great photoshop lesson with David Strohl I tinted the second photo based on the first photo. The first is of my grandma (1955?) and the second is of my sister.
it's coming along...

Psychedelia 01.

Inspiration: psychedelic garden dreams, kristyna, beach, virgin mary, lisa frank(?)
...and growing up i really hated lisa frank.

Nick Brandt

Another example of really powerful photos from Africa. I have never seen photos with animals showing this much emotion.
I think deep down inside I want to be this type of photographer.
More from Nick here.

Jürgen Schadeberg

Jürgen Schadeberg's photos are filled with life. Real substance to back up an image. Being in New York I've realized how important it is to have experiences that you can then implement into your work. Work can't be forced. It has to develop on its own from substance. After looking at ad after ad in Vogue, Nylon, blah blah blah it becomes apparent that real work comes from real experience. Forced work might be technically interesting and beautiful, but forced work will always be forced work. Jürgen falls along the ranks of Lauren Greenfield. Photographers who embed themselves in the lives of people they are interested in, and then photograph them. Creating beautiful and powerful stories about real people. These stories open up chapters of the world most people could never even think of. Even if the photos are not as technically advanced as advertising campaigns, the work is more important because it is real. This is the hard place that many photojournalists face during their careers. How to balance the love of honest photojournalism with the financial compensation of advertising. It's important for an artist to stay true to themselves...This is where art becomes powerful.
Jürgen Schadeberg's work influenced the Janet Jackson music video by Mark Romanek. Romanek is also a badass.

City kids, Clouds

Governor's Island is a magical place in NYC. If you haven't been there you should go. It is very un-New York.
My friends Veronica and David on bikes. And a very preliminary photo of a clouds/face project I am starting very soon.

Magical Subway

The subways here are magical. As I was walking around today I realized that I haven't really seen too much of Manhattan cause I spend all my time on the subway staring at people's faces and crafting up what their lives must be like. But today I ran out of my monthly subway pass and walked about 65 blocks in Manhattan...that's a lot. On my way back home from the grocery I actually found a seat in an actually empty car and this is what I found.
The weird part is only a few people even looked up. Everyone else ignored them like they were homeless people asking for money. Come on, now...

(not my video but I will have one up tomorrow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd8fNhvk4EY