Archives for September 2008
More Polaroids
It’s been a good week for the Polaroid pictures, which is good, because I’m running out of film. I have been slowly but surely fine-tuning my gallery of Brooklyn Polaroid images, with a focus on a tighter edit and also thinking quite a bit about sequence. I think I need about a dozen more images and then I’ll be ready to make one of these.
into the woods
There are the obvious visual clues as to the camera I am using here: the distorted wide angle, the vignetting and blurring of the edges of the image. The pinhole camera also lacks a viewfinder, which means that you have to look carefully when planning your picture and be willing to accept that things won’t always go the way you expect them to.
Tricked
An interesting new blog popped up a few weeks ago. Schtock.com claimed to be the work of an enthusiastic amateur designer working at a major stock agency, anonymously posting interesting images from the agency’s archives on their personal blog. It felt just a tiny bit illicit. We all knew that this person might be risking their job by posting these images without permission, and the work was good; sometimes funny, sometimes juxtaposed in ways that were quite striking. I quickly looked forward to checking the blog every day.
Limited edition print sale
I have been having a lot of success with palladium printing and I am happy to announce that I am ready to sell a few limited-edition prints from my new series of photographs from Sicily. Each 5×5 print is hand-printed in palladium and limited to an edition of 15. I am keeping the price for this series quite low just to test the waters, but will most likely have to raise the prices in the future because of the high cost of palladium and the amount of work that goes into creating each print.