Lots of stuff on drool today. If something here grabs you, have
a look and a read. If it bores you, well just scroll down to the
next item. I believe that’s the way it’s done these days.

NPAC

The News Photographers Association of Canada asked me if
I’d contribute a photo essay to their website. I said “sure”.

After digging around in my archives I thought I’d do a re-edit
of the project I shot last year in New Jersey. You can read my
initial thoughts here, if you’re interested.

If you’d like to see the whole thing on the NPAC site, go here.

WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF ME…..

Every so often I Google my name. (You do too. Come on,
admit it.) Sometimes weird, funny, viral things happen. For
instance, somebody in Turkey will do a thing on USER and
then, before you know it, a whole bunch of other Turks pick
it up and, voila, I’m big in Turkey for a week or two,

Anyway, I found this post somewhere a while ago. I can’t
direct you to the site where I found it because it seems to
be lost in the ether now. But I quite liked what the author
saw in my work and thought I’d attach it here. Excuse the
immodesty

SIMON ROBERTS

I kept wanting to write about WE ENGLISH, by Simon Roberts, because
I liked the pictures so much. Then I ran across this video, via LENS
CULTURE. I might as well let Mr. Roberts tell his own tale. Definitely
worth a look and listen. (Click on the 4-way arrows, bottom right,
to see the video in Hi Def. Dude’s shooting 4×5, worth the extra
load time.)

Simon Roberts: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

HERE FOR THERE UPDATE

HERE FOR THERE was the art sale/fund raiser Mike (Zeke) Zavacky
organized for relief for Haiti.

The evening was a smashing success. Over $12,000 was raised,
more than 450 people braved a bonechilling Ottawa January nite
to come out in support.

Good work Ottawa. Good work Mike.

A portion of the crowd

The man who bought my work

ALLI ASUDEH AT SPAO

Alli is a third year student at SPAO. She walks around with a Polaroid
camera and snaps things that capture her attention. She told me she’s
got a stack of prints over a foot high.

Alli Asudeh

She edited, framed and hung 75 of these small images for her show,
FRAGMENTS, now up at The Red Wall Gallery at SPAO. A kind of visual
lexicon of the minutia that she says shapes her life.

Installation views of Fragments

CHRIST IN MY (OLD) PICTURES