Portraiture Project

I just started a group project for my portraiture class and I'm pretty excited about it! We have to use artificial lighting and the final product needs to be a cohesive magazine or catalogue spread of 6-12 images. We were initially going to do a photo essay on the economy in Bozeman, so yesterday morning we went to photograph some homeless people to get their perspective. After spending about an hour talking to and photographing a group of six homeless individuals, we decided to focus exclusively on homelessness in Bozeman. I think it's going to end up being a powerful body of work! My job was to "interview" (aka just talk to and try to understand) the five men and one woman. Hence, these photographs were taken by Emily Barnhardt, not by me. Enjoy!

Amy and Aaron's Wedding

About six weeks ago Shelbee and I collaborated on photographing a wedding. We each shot hundreds of images; here are some of my best ones!

LA

Some images taken last weekend in LA... I just got a prime 50mm lens and am really enjoying playing around with it!

One Retro Kitchen

I have FINALLY scanned my final project from Experimental last semester. My basic process was to first photograph traditional kitchen items in the studio. I used 35mm film to keep things simple. I made 8x10 prints of the negatives. Onto these prints I transferred advertisements from the 1950's and 60's (into the background only). Then I used oil-based paint and colored pencils to hand color the images.

Here is my artist statement:

And finally, the images!

Cat in Walkerville

Right now I'm in Butte on a fieldtrip with a photo class! I'd never been here before and it's definitely more interesting than i had given it credit for. I'm mostly shooting film with the Holga but when I saw this cat just looking at us I pulled out my phone. Hopefully I will get my Holga shots scanned and up here soon!

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Cat in Walkerville

Right now I'm in Butte on a fieldtrip with a photo class! I'd never been here before and it's definitely more interesting than i had given it credit for. I'm mostly shooting film with the Holga but when I saw this cat just looking at us I pulled out my phone. Hopefully I will get my Holga shots scanned and up here soon!

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Experimental Final

This was when my final project for Experimental last semester was still a work in progress... I will eventually manage to scan them and post decent images of the whole series!

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Coney Island 4

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Coney Island 3

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Coney Island 2

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Fatigued

I just came across some images on my cell phone taken this summer at Coney Island. It's got 5 megapixels; these are unedited and straight off the phone. Unfortunately I have to post them one at a time with this app I'm using... so a few more posts are in the works!

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Finally, More Experimental Scans