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Monthly Archive January, 2008

SOW + REVIEW + CAMERA

SOW
This pig is big! That’s a 9 foot wide backdrop she’s standing on.
The pig wrangler used food to get her into position. She stayed there for about 5 frames
then turned and destroyed the backdrop. There was no talking to her. She did what she
wanted. I love pork.
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I also love working with [...]

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION + EMPTY ROOM

MEN ON WOMEN
Huge turnout for the opening of Men On Women. A group show
at Gallery La Petite Mort.
I had had one too many lattes before I went so count yourself lucky
if you didn’t bump in to me, I couldn’t shut up.
I also couldn’t stop taking really tight head snaps with my point
and shoot:

These, by [...]

INFLUENCES (1) + MEN on WOMEN

August Sander
was a German photographer who worked between the wars. (For you
kids out there….that’s World War l and World War ll.)
August was a working pro who decided that on his days “off” he would
photograph the “German People”. All kinds of German people. This kind
of photography wasn’t really done back then. Like [...]

COVER, SPREAD and TURN

Had a shot on the cover of this month’s Report on Business mag.
Not to mention a swell double page spread opener and a full page on the turn.
The subject was Regina lawyer Tony Merchant, who just won a 25 billion dollar
class action suit for aboriginal people who had been abused in the residential
school system. [...]