More iPhotos

Getting all William Eggleston with the bottom photo.

Inauguration panorama

Austin Music Hall, March 2012

Taking pictures with my phone as I stumbled from place to place during SXSW...

Dubrovnik

Taken in Croatia a few years back...

Portland panorama

Now Online: F-Stop Magazine - The Portrait Issue

I'm excited to report that a couple of my photos appear in the latest group exhibition of F-Stop Magazine - The Portrait Issue. There are 525 pictures total in the show, and most of them are really incredible. I'm constantly awed at how many talented photographers are out there.

Vertical

Another panorama: Central Park a few years ago.

Anime USA

Another one from the vault

The tofu hut

I'm excited to report that one of my photographs was recently featured on the front page of the 7th Berlin Biennale's website! Curated by Tomas Rafa.

Self Portrait with Dutch Belted Cow

Yet more from Occupy Portland (post-eviction)

A tense standoff with police on SW Main Street yesterday after the eviction of Chapman and Lownsdale Parks. The protesters ultimately decided to peacefully and temporarily relocate to Pioneer Courthouse Square.

A few more from Occupy Portland

Occupy Portland - Day 2

Occupy Portland

 

The Vanderbilt Republic - Contemporary Utopias Parts 1 and 2

A short, somewhat overdue announcement--I've recently begun a series of articles for The Vanderbilt Republic (a site founded by a group of creative people engaging in socially conscious work). The first two are already online, and the third should be up sometime in the next few weeks.

Anyway, without further ado, here are the links to Contemporary Utopias I: The Photographic Legacy and  Contemporary Utopias II: The Temporary and the Postmodern.

Rose's Pawn Shop, live at Mississippi Studios

Into the wild

One from the vault

This is probably the first picture I took that I was honestly proud of. It's on one of my first rolls of film. I shot it soon after I started down the long, dark path of photography, and around the time I started taking classes (during my very first class, actually, which was Advanced B/W Darkroom--I somehow convinced the photo dept. that I knew what I was doing in the darkroom, based on having read a book on it. And I was actually one of the better students in that class. For better or worse, I'm an autodidact at heart.)

About the photo: it was taken with my trusty Pentax K-1000 that a friend had given me, and a brand new 28mm lens that I bought to replace the 50mm that was already on it (for around $30). I took it at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade--truly a camera convention if there ever was one. A few friends were going, and I didn't want to miss the opportunity to hang with them in one of my favorite places on the planet. I shot a couple of rolls of film while I was there, just so I would have something new to print during class the next week. If I hadn't been taking that class, I doubt if I would have even bothered bringing my camera back then. There's a lesson there somewhere but it's probably almost as cliche as photographing the Mermaid Parade, and I'm way too tired to try and figure it out at the moment.

More from the archives to come...

conference speaker, July 2011