February 25, 2010 – 6:51 pm
For a while now, I have been struggling to find where I belong in this city, where I want to go with my photography, and what I want to do with my life. It seems to be the theme of all of my 20-something friends right now. We’re all reaching that point where the honeymoon [...]
January 31, 2010 – 11:48 am
This is Laura. Yesterday we braved the cold along with Michael to take some photos in the snow. Laura owns a ton of vintage film cameras that don’t work (though I suspect some still do). She doesn’t have any winter clothes despite being from Chicago. And she’s probably the first “Faces” person I’ve done that [...]
January 7, 2010 – 3:46 pm
Before I get in to it, I just want to give a couple disclaimers. First of all, I don’t claim for this list to be a “best of” list. It’s my favorites of the year. Of course I do think that some of my picks are objectively the best music from the year, but I [...]
December 11, 2009 – 4:55 pm
“…it’s a way of saying something without having to say something literal. To say something that can be both abstract and simple. I get a bad feeling when people talk about ‘capturing’ something with photography. That way of thinking seems lazy and false. For me it has much more to do with the impulse to [...]
November 27, 2009 – 12:39 pm
Soon after taking Allison’s portrait for my Faces project, I asked if she’d be willing to do a test shoot with me. I’ve been wanting to do a shoot at Cheekwood for months since I’d seen a photo by Kate Pulley on Flickr. Lately I’ve been inspired a lot by photos like that. Photos that [...]
