New Images: Gloucester, Montague and somewhere in the Berkshires

I've been lucky enough to briefly escape the city a few different days this past two weeks. Twice I made it up to Gloucester, mostly near Good Harbor Beach (top three images). I also spent a day with Amalia in Western Mass. First we went to the Montague Book Mill (bottom image), then on our way to MASS MoCA, we drove through the Berkshires (2nd to bottom image). All three of these day trips had excellent sunlight and warm weather, which I feel were captured in these images. It's images I get to make on trips like this that really get me motivated and excited about photography over and over again.

New Images: Brookline & Jamaica Plain

Three Similar Compositions

Three Images taken in 2006 & 2007. Top one was taken in Dryden, NY on an extremely foggy day. The middle image was taken in Watertown, MA and the bottom images was taken from the Green Street Parking Garage in Ithaca, NY. I just really like the way the composition is fairly identical and how they are almost the same image, but just of different subject matter. I tend to shoot in this style when I'm using a square format camera. I personally like images where the subject matter is centered, even though it is sometimes shunned upon. As long as the space circling the subject matter is very heavy in weight and as interesting, I feel the image can work out that way. It's just a preference of mine though.

Visual & Visceral Relationships

Today I scanned about thirty negatives from the past 5 years or so. I had a lot of negatives that I had c-printed before but never got a chance to get files of them. Going through some of it, I found these five images not only to be some of the more interesting ones as photographs, but also in the dialogue they have with one another. I found it interesting that these particular images, all taken at different periods of time, could connect through visual relations, along with the energy and constant motion each image holds. It's as if each image was taken with that frame of thought in mind, though I know for sure that they weren't. If anything, they were taken with the exact opposite frame of thought.

Window Photographs

Two random photographs of windows taken in 2009. The top one was taken from a hallway at MassArt looking out towards the Prudential Building. The bottom one was taken in Chicago of someone's garden apartment, living room window. The glowing lights are from their television. I may have felt like a creeper.

Fellow Book Bloggers: How Awesome!!

Photo © Shane Lavalette: Taken from his online Journal.


Photo © Alec Soth. Taken from Little Brown Mushroom Blog.

A few weeks back I sent out some copies of Fragments, Volume One to some other independent bookmakers as a way of introducing myself as a new comer to the photo book scene. A couple of them were very kind to include my book on their blogs about new books added to their shelves. Check out Alec Soth's book blog and Shane Lavalette's Journal to see these postings that also include a lot of other great books to look at.

Thesis Show: Unique c-Print Collage

This is the Unique c-Print Collage that I exhibited at our Thesis Show last month. Though these files will never do the actual prints justice, I thought some of you would like to see what I worked so hard on my last term. Please enjoy.

Books: Fragments, Volume One

This Thursday marks the debut of Fragments, Volume One, a small accordion style book that I will be publishing four times a year. This book is handmade and printed by me on digital inkjet paper. This volume is in an edition of 35, each one signed and numbered, and also features poetry by Katherine Murphy. I made this book in conjunction with my exhibition at The Hallway Gallery for the month of June. Future volumes of Fragments will consist of local and emerging artist.

My ideas for this series evolve daily, so please keep an eye out for Volume Two this early fall and see how this book progresses. Also stay tuned for some larger books that I will be producing this summer, both of mine and of other artist. I plan on doing a lot of handmade, small run editions in both book and portfolio case form. For these book ideas and for future volumes of Fragments, I have artist lined up such as:

Jimmey Leblanc

Ariel Kessler

Katherine Murphy

Aaron McElroy

Hot damm!

For now please enjoy this preview of Volume One and if you are interested in purchasing a copy, stop by The Hallway Gallery this Thursday, June 3rd for the opening reception. I anticipate these books going fast so stop by the gallery to pick one up, or purchase one online at the top of my blog page.

Exhibition: The Hallway Gallery

Join us at The Hallway Gallery for an opening reception of my latest exhibition of photography. I will be showing ten images from an older series of work, along side paintings by Fran Majusky.

This opening will also mark the debut of "Fragments", a limited edition, accordion style book of photography that I will be self-publishing quarterly. Volume one consist of the ten images I have in this exhibition along with poetry from Katherine Murphy. Future volumes of "Fragments" will consist of local and emerging artist.

Please join us for punch, photos, paintings, books and good times.

Hope to see you there.

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!