Ojo de Pez – Muestra

Reserva la fecha!!

El viernes el 27 de agosto a las 19hrs, inauguramos la muestra de Ojo de Pez en la legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Serán fotos por los almunos de los talleres del año pasado y este año. Viene una invitacion formal más cera la fecha, con la direccion. Favor de invitarles a tus amigos también …para soportar los adolescentes.

Se puede conocer Ojo de Pez acá: Ojo de Pez

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.Inked.Pierced.Marked

UPDATE: I decided to add the book in its development process in a slide format. It can be found below the screen shot of the cover.

The title has solidified and I’m liking it more each day. I thought I’d post the cover of the project. It has been floating around on the project page with the rest of the images, but this is the FULL cover. That is, the front, the back, the spine and the two flaps (black), that make up the rest of the dusk jacket. Use your imagination to see it as a real cover.

In putting together this project I was reminded of how much I enjoy photographing people and I might just see a style and never-ending project developing. I’m already looking for the next installment. Okay, working on it, but I picked a tough one and the networking I’ve been doing for a year now has yet to get me in the door. Cross your fingers. It will be awesome.

p.s. Sorry about the moderately annoying watermark.

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From my point of view ~ Grand Teton National Park

Less rain. More sun. At least one day out of seven. Look for the silver lining.

Look up, at least.

Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming.

More photos here

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Bald and Beautiful

Another gem along the way. What a face. Totally bald, with the most beautiful structure and eyes.

Eventually you’ll be able to check out the full project on the Tattoo photo project page: Los Tatuados (more photos coming).

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Thanks y Gracias

The process is slow. I think I admitted that before. But anyway, the editing on the tattoo project is advancing. I decided to post a few pages full of images to say thanks to the individuals that allowed me to photograph them.

Thanks

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El proceso es lento. Ya les dije antes. Pero de todos modos, la redacción del proyecto de tatuajes sigue. Decidí subir unas paginas de imagenes para agradecerles a los individuos que me permitieron sacarles.

Gracias

Click here to go to the Tattoo project page. (more photos to come)

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The Satisfaction in Touch

I held it in my hands yesterday. After a year. Working sporadically at times, I’ll admit. Working in a flurry right at the end. Having it mailed to Argentina. Missing the Fedex folks the first time. Giving up my Wednesday to make sure I was home the second time.

I hesitated. I created the book in Indesign, checked the bleed and the trim and every other number a million and one times. Or more. But I hesitated. I converted it to pdf, uploaded it and sent it out of my hands to be printed. Now it was back in my hands. Physically in existence. No longer images on my computer. It was in the box. I stopped hesitating.

The cover came out as the numbers said they would. The pages also. The binding stretched gracefully as I opened it for the first time. Flipped through each page. Details were in the places I put them, the way I put them. The photos amazing. The pages smooth and the smell of a new book lingered.

It was a year’s worth of work condensed to a 75-page, 8×10 glossy package. It was the idea that sparked the project. The clothing designed by Aidana. The photo sessions with our models. The hours of post-processing, editing, re-editing, layout and design. It was a physical thing. Real. And it was satisfaction that I held in my hands yesterday.
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Avantgarb(age)

The Art in Wearing…

By Caitlin Margaret K…

Book Preview

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From my point of view ~ Old Friends

Good friends are worth every joyous moment, every heartache. Good friends are for today, for tomorrow, for when you’re in your 90′s and need to help each other walk the sidewalks. There are few people in this world I would want to be just like. At this moment in time, on this day, on this street, at this second… if given the option, I would to grow up to be just like these women.

Old Friends

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‘Para Toda La Vida’ ~ La muestra

Although I only have one photograph from the Comedor Los Pibes project among the show, I hope if you’re in Buenos Aires you will come for the inauguration or stop by to see the work by all involved.

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Muestra Fotográfica Itinerante “Para Toda la Vida”

Una mirada sobre la Seguridad Social en la Argentina del Bicentenario.

Curaduría a cargo de  Ariel Ballester y Martín Rosenthal.

“Para toda la vida” es una muestra colectiva organizada por ANSES  que convoca a diecisiete fotógrafos de todo el país a exponer su mirada sobre el trabajo, el acceso a la salud, a la educación, el reconocimeinto a los ancianos, la niñez, la maternidad. Cada imagen concentra el país de todos.

Hoy que la celebración del Bicentenario encuentra a Argentina con un sistema integrado de jubilaciones y pensiones de caracter enteramente público, el Estado nuevamente está presente. Y es esa presencia la que intenta reflejar al muestra.

Inaugura lunes 5 de Abril – 18:30 Hs – Sala de Exposiciones de la Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buanos Aires, Perú 160.

Horarios: lunes a viernes  de 12 a 20 hs

La entrada es libre y gratuita

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Gems along the way

The World

Editing can either make me depressed or get me really excited. The depressed part comes about when I edit an assignment and I don’t like what I have. Yeah, it happens. I see what could have been and then proceed to mentally kick myself for not getting it. Whatever ‘it’ may be.

Photography, and by default editing, is a mentally and emotionally consuming process. I don’t go to work. I don’t stop working. I guess I could say it’s a lot like breathing. You stop, you die. Okay, okay… I’m not going to die if I stop taking photographs.

I’m intense, not insane.

But what I fear would die is this funky constant wonder about people and their interactions (with others, the planet and even themselves) that only seems to inflict young children and the socially inept. It is a weird place, this world of ours, and more so because we’re in it.

Therefore photography is at the core, the worst form of self-abuse and the best kind self-fulfillment in my case. It can be hard. It can be draining. It can be so totally awesome I walk about like a five year old anticipating Christmas. Yeah, it happens and I look like a dork.

So, I’m editing the hundreds of portraits from the tattoo convention last weekend and I am bouncing up and down in my chair. I thought I’d share a few gems along the way. You might not agree they are gems. I tend to like photographs that others do not, or become fascinated in some obscure detail nobody else cares about, but I hope you enjoy this dork’s vision anyway.

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Peru in Photos

The next generation of reed boat fishermen, Huanchaco.

Memories are fickle. Some stick, others do not. I confess to having a terrible memory for numbers. Photographs, the ones I take, get stuck in my mind however. I remember strange things, such as my body position when taking the image. I like to look back at images of the places I’ve traveled to remember the fun I was having there, the excitement of travel and the wonder meeting new people and experiencing new places.

So, without further reminiscing… Images from the recent trip: Peru

The images are divided into place categories so you won’t be subjected to hundreds of photos at once. I did go a bit crazy at times and there are about 100 photos in the Cusco folder. You’ve been warned.

Enjoy.

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