Taj Forer

Just found some beautiful work by Taj Forer. I'm gonna take some more time to find out more about it...you should too

Ed Panar

I've been looking at Ed Panar's work over and over again for quite a few months now and each time I do I like it even more. For some reason I always got the impression that his images were very small and today I read that his prints are indeed normally very small with the largest size usually being 8x10". I really admire that idea of photographs still serving their purpose as a tangible object; easily accessible and shared and passed. I'm sure his are framed and what-not, but still...you know what I mean...they are not gigantic and overbearing like everything else these days. I still really like the snapshot sensibility in photography.

Shawn Gust

I found today that Shawn Gust has included me in his links on his blog...I'm so flattered. I really enjoy his work.

Andrew Utt

Google has a fascinating way of connecting people. Through a series of work connections, Andrew Utt decided to look up my name on google and found a photo of mine and decided to write to me saying that he liked it and wanted to see more. So, in turn, I looked him up on google and found his website of all of his talents ranging from furniture sculpture to web design. His photography is quite good as well. And he has a shopping cart set up so you can buy affordable Iris(!) prints right from his site of his declaration project of family and other slides. Check it out!
I want to buy this one...

and I love this one...

here's some more to consider

i'm having such a hard time with this...i think too much

juried exhibitions

wow! i'm really bad at posting on here...i realized that while in the process of trying to choose what images to use to apply for some juried exhibitions. so, i thought i would post some images and see what kind of responses i get. i know this is not the most widely read photoblog, but if you are reading this let me know what you think!
THANKS
*oh...the images are not spotted yet...just disregard that*

wanderlustagraphy

I'm excited to be a part of the new collective photography blog created by Amy Elkins. I'm in there among many amazing photographers that I know of and look up to and lots of other photographers making great work that I'm glad to now know about. Check it out...Amy has been working hard to make a place to see a lot of great photography from all over the world.

Chris Jordan

I have recently been reading up on Chris Jordan. I have seen his work a few times in the last couple of years and have decided (for a few different reasons) to study his work further. I believe strongly in what his work is about and also find beauty in it. Just now I read the interview with Chris Jordan on Joerg Colberg's blog and I am utterly amazed by so many things and I am moved and excited and depressed and so many other things. This might be because of my fragile state of mind lately or simply because he seems to be an amazing person, but I want to say that he is my hero. He is so humble and real and passionate. He talk's about striving for simplicity which is something I've always tried to do and feel like ever since I have been in NY I have been doing the opposite and it is really hard on me. Please read this interview to learn and be amazed and inspired.

Bert Teunissen @ Aperture

The next lecture I am super excited about is at aperture again and is Bert Teunissen. It's so exciting to find a photographer you admire and then to have them speak in your town within a few weeks! He will be speaking March 20th at 6:30pm...i'm there!

Brian Ulrich and Richard Misrach

Went to see Brian Ulrich talk at Aperture last night. I was very glad that I went. It is so good to hear photographers talk about their work and to feed off of their passion. This is one thing I miss very much about school and being in that community. But, now I have the blogging community and the new york scene at my fingertips and slowly but surely I'm working my way into it. Even if I dont, I'm meeting so many interesting and amazing people. Brian's talk touched upon so many important issues on so many levels...the state of the world, the importance of understanding and also being able to laugh at what we can sometimes only contribute to, and the excitement of learning about these things (and yourself) through photography.
Then, this morning I met and talked to Richard Misrach about moving here from Arizona and trying to figure out how to survive in this place and at the same time create work. He was also very insightful and down to earth and matter of fact. It was a rockstar photographer filled 24 hours. That is one thing I love about my job.
As for me...I'm working on my inspiration. I'm not very inspired to photograph here. So, while I work that out I am going to look back at unfinished projects that I've been neglecting. I want to put together a book and I keep hearing about Democratic Books, which seems like a good way to go about doing that. So, scanning, photoshopping, and editing is in the works...i'm excited about it.
Looking forward to new work too though...we'll see what comes up...my mind is in so many different places lately.

stove photo

i was recently admiring christian patterson's amazing stove (revelation) photo and i thought of one of my favorite photo's from my 2004 series. The lonliness of my photo has always resonated with me and for some reason christian's photo reminds me of it (not only because of the obvious subject matter!) But, christian's is way more prophetic than mine. I also was recently looking at his cousins section of his blog and found it very enjoyable and was again reminded of the similarity of our photos. In that section he posted his "cousin" stove photo as tim barber's (also beautiful, and domestic, and simple daily life sort of feeling) stove photo. Surely there are more out there...

Photograph by Krystal McKay

Photograph by Christian Patterson

Photograph by Tim Barber

Bert Teunissen

Bert Teunissen's "Domestic Landscapes" are the most striking of these i've seen. They are all portraits, but accurately described as landscapes because although the people are so immediately striking, you find yourself inspecting everything else in the photograph...the spaces of these people. He has done this project in 9 countries and it is wonderful to see the similarities in peoples homes of the same culture, and then to find the eccentricities of each individual home. Some of them almost look like the same place just changed around a little and with a different person...i wonder if it is or if they are just really that similar? I find myself wanting most of the furniture in every picture (most likely because I own very little furniture since i've settled in new york and i crave it) and the tile and the linens and everything! I really connect with these pictures in an almost fantasy-like way, however real they are. Here's a few of his beautiful pictures.

i'm ralph ballerstadt's newest fan...it seems his idea of photography is the same as mine...this image is in his romance series, which is the most perfect word to describe so many of his images...the lighting and the solitude of this photograph is so romantic
he has a statement on his website that explains everything i ever wanted to say about my photography...
"We might think there is no picture left that hasn't been taken yet. However, the challenge seeing ordinary things anew is exactly what keeps me going."
Amazing
i'm so glad i found someone who could put into words what i've been trying to say for so long (i'm not lyrically gifted!)

this is my attempt to work my way into this tightly knit yet extremely available world of photoblogs!

that's all i've got so far....photo's coming soon!