Exhibition: Senior Thesis Show

Finally, all the hard work from me and my fellow classmates will be displayed in one amazingly big show. Are Thesis show opens tomorrow, Wednesday April 21st. 6-10 pm. There will be hundreds of people there to celebrate, you should be one of them. 

Show Details:

The Presidents Gallery, 11th floor of he Tower Building

Massachusetts College of Art & Design

621 Huntington Ave

Boston, MA 02115

April 20th to May 7th

Opening Reception is Wed. April 21st, 6-10 pm. 

San Fran: 2009

And image of the San Francisco sky in the late summer of 2009.

2005: Niagara and Chicago

A few Images I took in 2005. The first one is in Logan Square, Chicago. The second one was taken in Niagara Falls. I don't take a lot of images of people interacting with their surrounding environments but I thought these two were good images exploring that idea. I also think the two work real well together as a pairing.

Clint Baclawski: 4x5 Camera Installation

Recently, a friend of mine, Clint Baclawski, who is also a recent photo MFA graduate from MassArt. had an awesome installation at the Godine Gallery at MassArt. The show consisted of about a dozen 4x5 cameras and a digital projection of different landscape photographs flipped upside down. You could walk up to any of the cameras and view the landscapes right side up through the back of the ground glass. The show was visually amazing on many different levels. My Linhof 4x5 was used in this show and this is a photograph I took from it of the projections. The ghostly human figure to the left is Clint himself. Congrats Clint on a great show and I hope this idea spawns off into many other new visual experiences.

A Collection of Fences: Part 2

Another round of fences from the past year or so. Most of these images in the last two postings were taken in the Chicago and Boston. Enjoy!

A collection of Fences: Part 1

For the past year, I have been making a lot of images in the landscape. I have come to find a large set of fences within this work. I started shooting fences a lot when I was photographing empty plots of land for my missing teeth series, and just found myself to be really attracted to them. I respond to the different representations they have, whether as aesthetic choices, use for safety and comfort, or what it is they are trying to prevent us from seeing. Another round of fences will be posted soon. Enjoy.

20x24 Polaroid

I was very fortunate enough to have a session with the Polaroid 20x24 camera that Mass. Art owns. This was a rare opportunity that many people do not get the chance to have. I purchased 5 sheets at $75 a pop. Four of them came out and I got to say, I am very very happy with them. My goal was to make images that were visually pleasing and that partially mirrored some of the photogram work that I do. The quality of the images below do not do justice to the creamy and warm quality that these polaroids possess, not to mention the fact that they lost a good amount of the soft contrast they have. I hope at one point to have them displayed somewhere for people to see in person. More to come on that down the road hopefully. I also attached my blueprint of the ideas for the shots, to see a little of the thought process and how that can change when faced with different obstacles. I also attached a photo of when I was prepping for the fruit and of the actual session itself. Enjoy.

Unique C-Print's

Five of my latest unique c-Prints and photograms from my last critique. These images are not quite where I want them to be, but I was still fond of these visually and for the ideas they are starting to bring about. I'm still looking to have more layers and depth to these images, to try and create an unique concept of land and space.

Unique c-Print's

Three new Unique c-Prints that I made this past Monday. I like that they have a Japanese print style to them. I'm hoping to start making more images like the third one below. Images that have more depth and illusions of dimension in them. I want to create environments that don't exist with this work.

Unique-c-Print

Another Unique c-Print from the Fall of 2009. I have always been drawn to this image on multiple levels, from it's seduction of color, to the fluidness it displays. It hold a strong sense of motion or some sort of act, but an indescribable one.

Unique c-Print

This is a new Unique c-Print I made in the fall of 2009. It doesn't quite fit in with my thesis project, but I still feel it has an interesting representation of the landscape, or at least the idea of what the landscape really is. Enjoy this loner dootie.

Haystack Mountain School of Craft: Fall 2009

I got to spend several days again at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, Maine in October of 2009. This time around I concentrated strictly on photography as opposed to the poetry installations I worked on last fall. This year I wanted to take a few different approaches to making images here, especially since a lot of the images I see come out of Haystack are fairly traditional landscape photographs. I wanted to make something a little different then that. While some of these images are on the more traditional side, others explore different means of the idea of a landscape photograph.

The images with the pure white backgrounds are a new idea I am looking to explore extensively in the near future. I originally wanted to be able to take photographs that imitated my unique c-print series. I wanted the viewer to not be sure if they were looking at a photograph, a photogram, a unique c-print, or something completely different. I still like this idea of blending different kinds of imagery, but for this particular method of photographing, I started to find other interesting aspects to it. One thing I was trying to do was to single out certain parts of this landscape. I remember when I was there last year, there were particular things I wanted to shoot without the rest of the forrest taking over the photograph. It was hard to just take an image of a certain kind of flower without other distractions in the image.

I toyed with the idea of the title and location of the photographs to still play an importance to these white background image. Though the images seem like specimens, I wanted their location to still be relevant. I thought maybe I would let the title of each image be of the location it was shot in, or at least of the area. I feel this would allow the viewer to purely focus on the object I singled out, while imagining what the rest of the scene may look like. Mixing reality with fantasy a little bit. I'm looking forward to seeing where this idea may go down the road. Please enjoy what is here thus far.