Monday, March 8, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Van Dyke

Christopher James, Ferris Wheel & Corpse


Platinum/Palladium

Gertrude Kasbier, Blessed Art Thou Among Women


Laura Bennet, Cass in the Big Coat


The Gum Bichromate Process

Tony Gonzalez, Rachel/nail polish

Cheryl Harmeling, Brynmore



Potassium/Ammonium + Bichromate Salt + gum arabic/gelatin/glue/starch. Apply in mixture to a substrate; let dry.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Fourth Project: The Kiss*

I shot several couples kissing. Every other take, I would ask one half of the couple to step back while the other half held their position. I sought to create a new image of intimacy be removing one critical element from the embrace we've seen thousands of times before.




*Hey, Pipo. Sorry that these scans, and those that follow, are nowhere near clean or color-corrected. I don't have the software in Vermont to whip these files into shape.

Side Project: Seaside Masquerade

I visited a friend in Maine. We thought it would be funny to take a bunch of touristy pictures in Acadia National Park wearing an old beat-up cat mask that I got at an Ohio thrift store. We became very adept at using hand signals to coordinate the donning of the mask at the taking of the photograph. None of our fellow tourists were as intrigued as we wanted them to be.




BONUS: Said friend, photographed at the back patio she and her friends made from scratch a week prior.