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Monthly Archive August, 2008

MORE CRACK, HAVANA, OPENING

MORE CRACK
WARNING:
Depending on where you work, one
of the following images may be
NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Last year I took portraits of crack addicts after dark. I blocked them into tableaux,
added light and pressed the button.

The time I spent photographing them was intense, fulfilling and very, very exciting,
so I really wanted to continue this project. [...]

MOSTLY ME (in a roundabout way)

PINKUS ZUKERMAN
I photographed Pinkus Zukerman a little while back. For Ottawa Magazine.
In case you don’t know (and why would you unless you live in Ottawa and/or follow
the classical music scene) he’a a world renowned violinist as well as The National
Arts Centre Orchestra main-man. A bit of a celebrity…..known far but not wide.
One of [...]

SUMMER READING and VIEWING (link juice)

Links to a fascinating read and a moving audio-visual show today. Read on and
link away…….
DIANE ARBUS (and ANDERSON COOPER and OTHERS)
Back in 2005 David Segal, a writer at The Washington Post, tracked down some of
the people who had been photographed by Diane Arbus.
Hear what the Identical Twins have to say about their meeting with [...]

OUT TAKES

I shot a bunch of accountants this week.
Now I know that, as a group, accountants have the reputation of being,
well…..boring. This group, though, certainly rose to the creative occasion.
They were fun, human, interested and, yes, even interesting.
All through the shoot I was rating them (right out loud) on the shininess of
their shoes. Here’s [...]