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A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: CRUISE NIGHT My cousin Jordan asked me to print a retraction. From last week’s piece. It was an omission, really, but he’s not wrong. Jordan and my Uncle both mentioned the same thing: for the sake of brevity, I left out one important food experience in last week’s column. PRICING & NEGOTIATING Results: The photographer was awarded the assignment, and the shoot is currently in post-production.It was a very successful project and the client and agency are very happy with the work created! If you have any questions, or if you need help estimating or producing a project, please reach out.We’re available to help with any and all pricing and negotiating needs—from small stock sales toA PHOTO EDITOR
A Photo Editor (APE) is edited by Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Contributors include fine art photographer Jonathan Blaustein (@jblauphoto), Creative Director Heidi Volpe, photography consultant Suzanne Sease and Executive Producer Craig Oppenheimer of Wonderful Machine.THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Shahzad Bhiwandiwala. Heidi: How did this come about? Shahzad: I had started working on my graduate thesis project, Royalty, in the fall of 2019.The project was my way of commenting on the circuitous route of fashion where designs go in and out of style and make a resurgence ata
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: JAMES PAYNE The Art of the Personal Project: James Payne. The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
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Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s HOW DOES A PHOTOGRAPHER LAND AN AGENT? APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get.. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, and his artists management firm, Bernstein and Andriulli, now boasts a hot-list of clients ranging from Adidas to The New Yorker.A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: CRUISE NIGHT My cousin Jordan asked me to print a retraction. From last week’s piece. It was an omission, really, but he’s not wrong. Jordan and my Uncle both mentioned the same thing: for the sake of brevity, I left out one important food experience in last week’s column. PRICING & NEGOTIATING Results: The photographer was awarded the assignment, and the shoot is currently in post-production.It was a very successful project and the client and agency are very happy with the work created! If you have any questions, or if you need help estimating or producing a project, please reach out.We’re available to help with any and all pricing and negotiating needs—from small stock sales toA PHOTO EDITOR
A Photo Editor (APE) is edited by Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Contributors include fine art photographer Jonathan Blaustein (@jblauphoto), Creative Director Heidi Volpe, photography consultant Suzanne Sease and Executive Producer Craig Oppenheimer of Wonderful Machine.THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Shahzad Bhiwandiwala. Heidi: How did this come about? Shahzad: I had started working on my graduate thesis project, Royalty, in the fall of 2019.The project was my way of commenting on the circuitous route of fashion where designs go in and out of style and make a resurgence ata
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: JAMES PAYNE The Art of the Personal Project: James Payne. The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
ASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s HOW DOES A PHOTOGRAPHER LAND AN AGENT? APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get.. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, and his artists management firm, Bernstein and Andriulli, now boasts a hot-list of clients ranging from Adidas to The New Yorker.A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: KAHRAN AND BETHANCOURT OF The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.THE DAILY EDIT
Shahzad Bhiwandiwala. Heidi: How did this come about? Shahzad: I had started working on my graduate thesis project, Royalty, in the fall of 2019.The project was my way of commenting on the circuitous route of fashion where designs go in and out of style and make a resurgence ata
THE DAILY EDIT
The work of philosopher Paul Ricœur posits that the formation of individual identity is in large part shaped by ones ability to recognize another, and to be recognized by another. It was a compounding lack of recognition, however, that led to individuals disappearing from their film images. Film manufacturers being unableor unwilling to
A PHOTO EDITOR
A Photo Editor (APE) is edited by Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Contributors include fine art photographer Jonathan Blaustein (@jblauphoto), Creative Director Heidi Volpe, photography consultant Suzanne Sease and Executive Producer Craig Oppenheimer of Wonderful Machine.A PHOTO EDITOR
The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101.A PHOTO EDITOR
As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects. A personal project is the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director/photo editor or graphicdesigner.
A PHOTO EDITOR
by Jess Dudley, Wonderful Machine Shoot Concept: Industrial lifestyle shoot Licensing: North American collateral use of all images in perpetuity (15 per day) Location: Manufacturing facility Shoot Days: Up to 20 Photographer: Lifestyle and portrait specialist Agency: Client direct Client: Not a household name, but well known withinit’s industry
A PHOTO EDITOR
The pack of single image promos is probably the most useful and accessible promo there is for photographers. You don’t need a great designer, you can stick to your best images, there are plenty of printers available who do a great job with this and it’s fairly inexpensive compared to other promo types.A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: KAHRAN AND BETHANCOURT OF The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Somira Sao. Heidi: How did your photo career start? The start of my photo career was driven by a personal desire to understand my history as a Cambodian refugee. I was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp in Kampong Thom Province during Pol Pot’s occupation of Cambodia. My parents and I survived mass genocide, fled the country, and wererelocated
JONATHAN BLAUSTEIN
That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101.ASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: KAHRAN AND BETHANCOURT OF The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Somira Sao. Heidi: How did your photo career start? The start of my photo career was driven by a personal desire to understand my history as a Cambodian refugee. I was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp in Kampong Thom Province during Pol Pot’s occupation of Cambodia. My parents and I survived mass genocide, fled the country, and wererelocated
JONATHAN BLAUSTEIN
That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101.ASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “ PRICING & NEGOTIATING Results: The photographer was awarded the assignment, and the shoot is currently in post-production.It was a very successful project and the client and agency are very happy with the work created! If you have any questions, or if you need help estimating or producing a project, please reach out.We’re available to help with any and all pricing and negotiating needs—from small stock sales toA PHOTO EDITOR
The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.THE DAILY EDIT
The work of philosopher Paul Ricœur posits that the formation of individual identity is in large part shaped by ones ability to recognize another, and to be recognized by another. It was a compounding lack of recognition, however, that led to individuals disappearing from their film images. Film manufacturers being unableor unwilling to
THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: AS IT WAS BEFORE It’s been raining for two days straight. That never happens. It’s so rare, when I asked my wife and daughter if they remembered the last time it rained like this, they said September 2019.A PHOTO EDITOR
by Jonathan Blaustein. Taste is fickle. We all think we have good taste, but of course that’s impossible. Some of us are chic, and others display ceramic frogs around their home.A PHOTO EDITOR
by Jess Dudley, Wonderful Machine Shoot Concept: Industrial lifestyle shoot Licensing: North American collateral use of all images in perpetuity (15 per day) Location: Manufacturing facility Shoot Days: Up to 20 Photographer: Lifestyle and portrait specialist Agency: Client direct Client: Not a household name, but well known withinit’s industry
FEATURED PROMO
Mcalman.co, which is a design studio founded by George McCalman, who’s made promos for many wonderful photographers. I worked directly with him and his Design Associate, Ali Cameron. George and I have collaborated on a few things together and it was extremely helpful to begin from a place where he was familiar with my interestin images and
A PHOTO EDITOR
As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects. A personal project is the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director/photo editor or graphicdesigner.
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: JAMES PAYNE The Art of the Personal Project: James Payne. The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with NOTHING IS MORE COMMON THAN UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WITH Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence andA PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: KAHRAN AND BETHANCOURT OF The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Somira Sao. Heidi: How did your photo career start? The start of my photo career was driven by a personal desire to understand my history as a Cambodian refugee. I was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp in Kampong Thom Province during Pol Pot’s occupation of Cambodia. My parents and I survived mass genocide, fled the country, and wererelocated
JONATHAN BLAUSTEIN
That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101.ASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course America THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: KAHRAN AND BETHANCOURT OF The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
THE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper keptTHE DAILY EDIT
Somira Sao. Heidi: How did your photo career start? The start of my photo career was driven by a personal desire to understand my history as a Cambodian refugee. I was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp in Kampong Thom Province during Pol Pot’s occupation of Cambodia. My parents and I survived mass genocide, fled the country, and wererelocated
JONATHAN BLAUSTEIN
That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101.ASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “ PRICING & NEGOTIATING Results: The photographer was awarded the assignment, and the shoot is currently in post-production.It was a very successful project and the client and agency are very happy with the work created! If you have any questions, or if you need help estimating or producing a project, please reach out.We’re available to help with any and all pricing and negotiating needs—from small stock sales to THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: AS IT WAS BEFORE It’s been raining for two days straight. That never happens. It’s so rare, when I asked my wife and daughter if they remembered the last time it rained like this, they said September 2019.THE DAILY EDIT
The work of philosopher Paul Ricœur posits that the formation of individual identity is in large part shaped by ones ability to recognize another, and to be recognized by another. It was a compounding lack of recognition, however, that led to individuals disappearing from their film images. Film manufacturers being unableor unwilling to
FEATURED PROMO
Mcalman.co, which is a design studio founded by George McCalman, who’s made promos for many wonderful photographers. I worked directly with him and his Design Associate, Ali Cameron. George and I have collaborated on a few things together and it was extremely helpful to begin from a place where he was familiar with my interestin images and
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: JAMES PAYNE The Art of the Personal Project: James Payne. The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project withA PHOTO EDITOR
by Sean Stone, Wonderful Machine. I’ve had the opportunity to consult with hundreds of photographers over the years, and while I love working on websites, promos, or creative coaching, print portfolios have always been my favorite.A PHOTO EDITOR
The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.A PHOTO EDITOR
As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects. A personal project is the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director/photo editor or graphicdesigner.
A PHOTO EDITOR
by Jonathan Blaustein. Taste is fickle. We all think we have good taste, but of course that’s impossible. Some of us are chic, and others display ceramic frogs around their home.A PHOTO EDITOR
by Jess Dudley, Wonderful Machine Shoot Concept: Industrial lifestyle shoot Licensing: North American collateral use of all images in perpetuity (15 per day) Location: Manufacturing facility Shoot Days: Up to 20 Photographer: Lifestyle and portrait specialist Agency: Client direct Client: Not a household name, but well known withinit’s industry
A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course AmericaTHE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper kept THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
FEATURED PROMO
The images are from a personal project I shot in Hawaii last spring/summer. The images are made by double exposing 35mm film, shot on older Nikonos cameras. The Nikonos cameras from the 70’s & 80’s are fully self-contained waterproof units and were originally designed for underwater photography. I would shoot an entire roll of film whileASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
PRICING & NEGOTIATING: HEADSHOTS, STILLS AND VIDEO For the creative/licensing fee, I added $1,500 for a modest creative fee to account for the additional day, and then added $200 per person for the video, which brought me to $10,400, and I then rounded up to an even $10,500. We increased the crew to account for the additional day, and increased equipment as well to $1,500 to cover extra WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101. IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “A PHOTO EDITOR
Holmdel, New Jersey, was founded by Dutch Colonists, in the 17th Century, but belonged to the Lenni Lenape Native people before that. England battled for, and won, colonial territory from the Dutch and the French, to control the East Coast, and then of course AmericaTHE DAILY EDIT
The water cleared, and Sniper emerged with a fresh salmon between his teeth. The salmon released her eggs into the river as a last ditch effort to procreate. As he turned and walked directly towards me, I held down the camera’s trigger. Sniper kept THE BEST WAY TO REGISTER YOUR COPYRIGHT Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little from the copyright office will change your life. This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs areprotected.
FEATURED PROMO
The images are from a personal project I shot in Hawaii last spring/summer. The images are made by double exposing 35mm film, shot on older Nikonos cameras. The Nikonos cameras from the 70’s & 80’s are fully self-contained waterproof units and were originally designed for underwater photography. I would shoot an entire roll of film whileASK ANYTHING
Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
PRICING & NEGOTIATING: HEADSHOTS, STILLS AND VIDEO For the creative/licensing fee, I added $1,500 for a modest creative fee to account for the additional day, and then added $200 per person for the video, which brought me to $10,400, and I then rounded up to an even $10,500. We increased the crew to account for the additional day, and increased equipment as well to $1,500 to cover extra WHO OWNS THE IMAGES WHEN YOU TAKE PICTURES AS AN EMPLOYEE If you are not an employee of an organization, you own the copyrights to the photos you take, even if the organization hired you to take the photos unless you have signed a document (including via an email) stating otherwise. In that case, the hiring company will own the copyrights as a “work made for hire.”. See 17 USC 101. IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT to “A PHOTO EDITOR
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The work of philosopher Paul Ricœur posits that the formation of individual identity is in large part shaped by ones ability to recognize another, and to be recognized by another. It was a compounding lack of recognition, however, that led to individuals disappearing from their film images. Film manufacturers being unableor unwilling to
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Peter Prato. Who printed it? Edition One Books, which recently moved from Berkeley to Richmond. Brandon Tauszik, who’s an amazing photographer and a dear friend, turned me onto them.They printed his book, Pale Blue Dress, which made an THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: AS IT WAS BEFORE It’s been raining for two days straight. That never happens. It’s so rare, when I asked my wife and daughter if they remembered the last time it rained like this, they said September 2019. JUNE 2021 – A PHOTO EDITOR Giles Clement. Heidi: Do you travel with a mobile dark room? Giles: When shooting tintypes or ambrotypes, yes. What is your set up? If you need to send materials ahead of time, how difficult is that? THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: LEAVING THE NEST Nobody’s perfect. I’m certainly not. I make a lot of predictions here, and claim to have the proper “hot take” on so many global issues. But I don’A PHOTO EDITOR
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by Jess Dudley, Wonderful Machine Shoot Concept: Industrial lifestyle shoot Licensing: North American collateral use of all images in perpetuity (15 per day) Location: Manufacturing facility Shoot Days: Up to 20 Photographer: Lifestyle and portrait specialist Agency: Client direct Client: Not a household name, but well known withinit’s industry
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That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
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Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: TIM TADDER Tim Tadder is a Southern California based creative photographer and director with a strong sport and conceptual portfolio. Since 2012 Tim Tadder has published multiple personal projects that have enjoyed viral success. The most wildly acclaimed “Water Wigs” received over 1 million unique views within the first 24 hours of publication. ART PRODUCERS SPEAK: HOLLY ANDRES Holly Andres is a fine art and commercial photographer. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Istanbul, Turkey and Portland Oregon where she lives and works. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Runner’s World, W, Art in America, Artforum, Exit Magazine, ArtNews, Modern
HOW DOES A PHOTOGRAPHER LAND AN AGENT? APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get.. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, and his artists management firm, Bernstein and Andriulli, now boasts a hot-list of clients ranging from Adidas to The New Yorker. IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publiclyA PHOTO EDITOR
Casting & Talent: We included $2,000+20% per talent for up to 15 people to be used over the three shoot days. We also added a $2,400 casting fee for the director and producer to take on the casting, which was to be a mix of friends/family and professional talent. PRICING & NEGOTIATING Results: The photographer was awarded the assignment, and the shoot is currently in post-production.It was a very successful project and the client and agency are very happy with the work created! If you have any questions, or if you need help estimating or producing a project, please reach out.We’re available to help with any and all pricing and negotiating needs—from small stock sales toTHE DAILY EDIT
Somira Sao. Heidi: How did your photo career start? The start of my photo career was driven by a personal desire to understand my history as a Cambodian refugee. I was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp in Kampong Thom Province during Pol Pot’s occupation of Cambodia. My parents and I survived mass genocide, fled the country, and wererelocated
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That is a huge piece of the puzzle. Tuesday evening, I logged into the Zoom, and mostly paid attention to Pete Souza’s presentation, though I cut away from time to time to check on my kids, make a photo for Instagram, and shoot images for my ongoing series about Taos in #2021. My Instagram shot from Tuesday evening. USAGE AND PRICING OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL MEDIA A Creative Director at a social media ad agency said they would pay $500.00 for a one image shoot with lasting 2-3 hours total (pre-pro, shoot and edit). This is how fast clients want to get their social media marketing up. And for shoots when they need 15-25 images in one day, their client pays $2,000 max. Some clients will have usage basedon
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Treatments are not prepro books or moodboards submitted after the job has awarded. In my experience, a treatment is a document prepared and shared with the agency during the bidding process to help further explain the vision & execution of the photographer, to differentiate the photographers from those he/she is bidding against, & to further demonstrate the photographer’s THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: TIM TADDER Tim Tadder is a Southern California based creative photographer and director with a strong sport and conceptual portfolio. Since 2012 Tim Tadder has published multiple personal projects that have enjoyed viral success. The most wildly acclaimed “Water Wigs” received over 1 million unique views within the first 24 hours of publication. ART PRODUCERS SPEAK: HOLLY ANDRES Holly Andres is a fine art and commercial photographer. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Istanbul, Turkey and Portland Oregon where she lives and works. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Runner’s World, W, Art in America, Artforum, Exit Magazine, ArtNews, Modern
HOW DOES A PHOTOGRAPHER LAND AN AGENT? APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get.. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, and his artists management firm, Bernstein and Andriulli, now boasts a hot-list of clients ranging from Adidas to The New Yorker. IS PHOTO MANIPULATION BAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? By rhaggart. In Ethics, The Future. Grayson and Mike at Outside Magazine asked me to write an essay for their photography issue and we settled on the topic of photo manipulation. It’s certainly a hot button issue these days not only because of how easy it’s gotten to make realistic fakes but also because it’s gotten easier to publicly EXPERT ADVICE: PHOTOGRAPHER SCAMS Part of the fake job description PDF sent by the scammer to photographers. The scammer offered $3,500 in photographer compensation — $1,500 upfront and $2,000 after the shoot — while earmarking $9,500 for the total shoot budget (to include talentFEATURED PROMO
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2020 SPRING GRADUATE WORK Everard Williams and Ann Field from Pasadena Art Center College of Design had their Final Crit Grad Review for photography students recently. Not surprisingly it was conducted via Zoom. Over the course of about 4 hours we looked at a variety of stellar work. You can see all of the graduate work here. There is a tremendous amount of strong work, however I was struck by these two images in particular. PHOTOGRAPHER: MARLY LUDWIG Marly: When I first heard the story of a girl from my former high school who lost her finger, I was immediately interested. One day during school, Victoria decided to hop over the fence and skip class. Upon climbing over the chain-link fence, a ring she was wearing snagged and her finger suddenly ripped off. That is not quite the repercussion one would expect from ditching school. Being quite scared of losing an appendage myself, I wanted to confront that fear with my camera. I felt placing her in the shadow of a fence with her hand to her face would be the best way to illustrate the story. Victoria showed such stoicism, and she wiggled the little piece of finger for me, which I found endearing. The image came out exactly how I envisioned it, and I love how beautiful she is without her ring finger. PHOTOGRAPHER: SOHUI KIM. I enjoyed her interpretation of a Korean moon jar from. Moon Jars were originally created in the 17th and 18th centuries as household food storage jars but have been admired as artworks since Korea’s colonial period (1910-45). They are formed as two halves thrown on a wheel before being skilfully luted together horizontally around their widest point before being glazed and fired. The joint line is visible and they are admired for their unintentionally artful asymmetry. FOSTERING CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL HEALTH- MJ68 PRODUCTIONS Suzanne Sease - May 18, 2020- Photographers ,
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I’m coming in hot today. Last week, I wanted to avoid staring into the darkest parts of reality, but today I have no choice. I’ve been chatting and texting with my good friend, and erstwhile collaborator, Iván. (He was my professor of Globalization Theory in graduate school at Pratt, and has a PhD as well.) We did some successful modeling of potential Great Recession outcomes at its outset, and then properly predicted the multi-polar world that followed, some years later. But when we spoke at the beginning of The Troubles, it wasn’t any fun, as he always takes the pessimistic, idealistic side of the argument, and I go for the realist/pragmatist/optimistic angle. There is not much optimism in our current global affairs, so the chat was grueling, and way too soon for either of us to have made any real observations yet. (Mid-March) In the last two weeks, though, we’ve talked twice and texted tentimes.
Before I get to that, though, I should mention one more thing. When I met Iván, on the first day of class, he claimed he was a Mexican, Marxist Yankee Fan. I laughed out loud, and challenged him on the spot, saying there couldbe no such thing.
The Yankees represented the heart of Capitalism, always outspending their way to World Series titles, and Karl Marx invented Communism. These were antithetical concepts. (I once compared “Das Kapital” and Ayn Rand’s “AtlasShrugged” in an
economics paper at Duke, so I am familiar with the material.) Iván said he was a Guatemalan-by-family, Mexican-by-birth, Jewish, long-time New Yorker, and entitled to root for the Yankees, because he lived in Upper Manhattan, a short subway ride from the Stadium. (I’ve picked that bone with him ever since, in jest.) But last week, having finally connected the dots, his words from our second phone call still ringing in my head, I called Iván. “Well, hello,” he said. “Nice to hear from you again.” “Listen,” I said, “I don’t have much time. I need to go on a walk with the family, but I can’t get this one idea out of my head. About what you were saying. About Marx.” “Go ahead,” he said. “As I understand it, Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to force meat-packing plants to stay open, and meat-packing workers to report for work, or lose their jobs. Because god forbid America goes a week without eating all its cows,chickens and pigs.
But the workers are going to get sick, and they have, and they’redying too.
These workers are lower class, and often Mexican or Central American immigrants, who are also demonized in our culture. Given the low status and wages of the jobs, how good will their health care coveragebe?
(Or more likely, they won’t have employer health care at all, because surely some of them are part-time or contract workers.) With the state of the economy, if the workers choose not to work, they might not have food or a home, and if they do work, they might getsick and die.
And because we live in a country without a robust, free public health system, if these people get sick, and don’t have the right insurance, they might go bankrupt.” “Yes,” Ivan said. “All so the higher classes can get their meat,” I continued. “And don’t forget, these plants are also factories of death, assembly lines that kill and dismember live creatures. And the entire industry is also one of the largest drivers of Climate Change.” “Yes,” he said, “all true.” “Then I learned in Reuters that China actually owns the largest pork processing company in the US, Smithfield, and that some of the meat processed in the factories, which are being forced open by Donald Trump, is being exported, while American grocery stores are rationing meat. “That’s Marx,” I told Ivan. “As much as I’ve teased you all these years for calling yourself a Marxist in the 21st Century, what’s happening now is what he described.” “Exactly,” he said. “The workers must be exploited, surplus value must be derived from them, for the owners to extract profit.” “It’s a rigged game for the lower classes,” I said. “If they stay home, they don’t eat. If they go to work, they might get sick. If they get sick, they might die. Or if they don’t die, they may gobankrupt.”
“Yes,” said my friend. “That is true, and tragic. And it is what Karl Marx critiqued in the Capitalist system.” And as to being a Mexican, Marxist Yankee fan…in the end, I apologized for teasing him all these years. The world is infinitely complex, and one can be a Marxist, and a Yankee fan simultaneously. (Or an American and an environmentalist.)PART 2. THE BOOK
By now, you likely know I published a book called “ExtinctionParty,” and
I’ll be writing about that, in conjunction with the Amsterdam series, soon enough. Today, though, I was actually inspired by the book I mentioned last week. The one that was really good, but too bleak for my mood. (It was THAT book, and not my own, that inspired today’s column.) Like the excellent Sheri Lynn Behr book I reviewed a month ago,
this is also self-published, with a similar construction, and asuggestive cover.
The red/white checker pattern, askew, makes me think of restaurant tablecloths, or old recipe books, and the partial circle makes me think of a heat map of the world. Looking again, now I see the outline of North America. Open it up, and it’s called “Recipes for Disaster,” by Barbara Ciurej + Lindsay Lochman, an artist team from the Midwest. Though they haven’t been in the column much before, (if ever,) I’ve been a huge admirer of their work for years. Barbara and Lindsay do food based, studio, conceptual, still life constructions, using absurd humor, so you can see the connection. (They showed me a nearly-finished version of this book at Filter Photo in September, so it is definitely not pandemic-response art, despite its timeliness.) Open it up, and we see, for Chapter 1, what looks like an appropriated graphic poster, which has been partially redacted, of a family around a table. (Black rectangles over the eyes.) It’s the lead to “Expunge Cake,” which references Trump’s early gambit of removing all Climate Change words, and the like, from government websites. The cake, though, looks delicious. (Yes, I’m hungry, I’m writingbefore breakfast.)
Feedlot brownies, with all sorts of statistics about the cost of thecattle industry.
Crust, with a skeleton baked on what looks like desiccated Earth. Profit Pies, Clearcut Roulade, Rainforest Flambé, all with rigorousstatistics.
Can you see why I didn’t want to write about this last week? It’s so in your face! Frankly, I feel like some of my favorite work by the team is a bit more subtle, but this is not a subtle moment, is it? Radioactive Tea Cakes, Extinction Cookies, this goes right for thejugular.
And since we’re all baking these days anyway, now you’ll have this stuck in your head while you’re doing it.(You’re welcome.)
BOTTOM LINE: WICKED, SATIRICAL RECIPE BOOK ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD To purchase “Recipes with Disaster” click here _If you’d like to submit a book for potential review, please email me directly at jonathanblaustein@gmail.com. We are interested in presenting books from as wide a range of perspectives as possible._ THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: DANA ROMANOFF Suzanne Sease - May 14, 2020- Personal Project
The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions. Today’s featured artist: Dana RomanoffLOGLINE:
NOAH, Rising from the Ashes in Flint SHORT GENERAL SYNOPSIS: “Noah” tells the story of Noah Patton, a young man from Flint, Michigan, who was going down a one-way street backward. With a gun on his hip and always in search of the next lick, he had many enemies and was living on borrowed time. However, like his hometown, Noah is striving to rise from the ashes. With the support of his pastor, he is turning his life around and helping to positively shape the future ofhis community.
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Noah caught my eye the second he walked into the room. I was seated at a table with a group of men, mostly ex-felons, at the Joy Tabernacle Church in Flint, Michigan where I had been commissioned to create a video on resident engagement by Community Leads. I had been introduced to Pastor McCathern as a potential subject. When Pastor opened up the church doors to me he said: “if you want to know my story, you have to hear the stories of my council.” That’s when Noah entered, gently placing his sleeping toddler down on a couch and taking a seat across from me. He looked up at me and said “I got a story that’s meant for the movies.” Directed by filmmaker Dana Romanoff and edited by Blue Chalk Media, “Noah” tells the story of Noah Patton, a young man from Flint, Michigan who was going down a one-way street backward. Backward past abandoned homes and empty schools and the sounds of bullets echoing louder than children’s laughter. With a gun on his hip and always in search of the next lick, he had many enemies and was living onborrowed time.
Flint is a city built on the American Dream. With the disappearance of industry, it became impoverished and neglected, and so did its residents. The water crisis is just one more tragedy piled upon a mound of oppression. But Flint is a city of survivors. And like the phoenix, Noah and his city are rising from the ashes. Noah returned to his deep-rooted faith in God, and with the help of a pastor, he is turning his life around and helping to positively shape the future of his community. Noah’s story provides an entry point into the discussion about the role of grassroot efforts in urban revitalization. Flint is a city looking to build itself up from within by empowering its communities from the ground up. Both Noah and his pastor are examples of such grassroots efforts. Today’s political climate, and the often harsh rhetoric about inner cities, make the discussion about resident engagement, and Noah’s story, ever more important. To see more of this project, click here.
APE contributor Suzanne Sease currently works as a consultant for photographers and illustrators around the world. She has been involved in the photography and illustration industry since the mid 80s. After establishing the art buying department at The Martin Agency, then working for Kaplan-Thaler, Capital One, Best Buy and numerous smaller agencies and companies, she decided to be a consultant in 1999. She has a new Twitter feed with helpful marketing information because she believes that marketing should be driven by brand and not by specialty. Follow her at @SuzanneSease . Instagram Success is more than a matter of your talent. It’s also a matter of doing a better job presenting it. And that is what I do with decades of agency and in-house experience. THE DAILY EDIT – VENTURA COVID-19 PROTEST: ANGELO PARTEMI Heidi Volpe - May 12, 2020 -The Daily Edit
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HEIDI: HOW DID YOU PROTECT YOURSELF WHILE YOU WERE SHOOTING? Angelo: I wore a mask the whole time but skipped the gloves as it would have been too hard to handle my cameras with them. Longs sleeves and pants were essential, and upon returning home I washed my clothing and disinfected my gear immediately as it was very difficult to keep with social distancing in crowds that don’t respect that advisory. I only went in close for shots when absolutely necessary, but I tried to not let that dictate my flow. HOW DID YOU APPROACH PEOPLE SINCE YOU DIDN’T HAVE A MEDIA PASS? I’ve never had a media pass I didn’t make myself. I honestly treated it as any other day out on the street. I have been photographing strangers in public for 7+ years and am very comfortable approaching people and taking close photos. In this case, I felt people knew I wasn’t there as a supporter as much as an observer. DID YOU GET ANY RESISTANCE FROM THE PROTESTORS? I didn’t get a ton of resistance, but I did get a lot of questions. I was accused of being media by several different people because I was protecting myself with a mask. People asked if I was selling photos to China or working for China. To go back to my country, which is America. You know, the normal stuff you hear when you cover something like this and don’t fall on their side of the fence. I kept calm and rational and told them I was there because it was interesting, nothingmore.
WERE YOU CONCERNED FOR YOUR SAFETY AT ANY TIME?Never.
HOW DID PHOTOGRAPHING THIS PROTEST PUSH YOUR WORK? I’ve been working on this project since 2016 and because it’s been going on for so long, it has really pushed me to go to events where I don’t support what they’re doing. But to be honest to the project I have to see both sides as it’s part of the greater story. So, it pushes me personally as I wouldn’t be at an event like this if I wasn’t taking photographs. HOW DO YOU APPROACH A PROJECT LIKE THIS, DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR BODY OF WORK, AND THEN CREATE A SHOT LIST? I do not have a shot list in my mind before going out as I think it can stifel my creativity and close my mind to pictures that are in front of me. I usually find greater success when I have an open my mind and listen to my gut. I try to shoot first and edit later. If it’s interesting I try to put a frame around it. I don’t see this body of work as a whole yet, nor am I at a place where I can fill holes. I think my bucket is close to half full with a lot of workahead.
SINCE YOU ARE SHOOTING ONLY FILM, WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? I don’t know if there is an advantage, but definitely a preference. The look, feel, and tangibility of the negatives far outweigh any advantage digital would give me. DO YOU KEEP A MENTAL CHECKLIST OF WHAT YOU’VE PHOTOGRAPHED AND DO YOU TAKE LONGER TO FRAME UP THE IMAGE? I think not being able to review my images keeps me in the moment, and constantly scanning for the next image which is good. I might take 5 frames at most on an amazing scene, though it’s typically 1-2. Like all photography, it’s a numbers game, but I think shooting filmincreases mine.
THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: NOW & THEN Jonathan Blaustein - May 8, 2020 - Photography Books I read a great quote this morning. By Alison Herman in The Ringer. “Constant dread and anxiety do not pair well with creativity.” She was writing about why “Mad Men ” was gaining an extra following during the pandemic, as it was good enough art to distract, but not so dark in tone as to make one’s thoughts return to TheTroubles.
(Hey Northern Irishfolk:
May I please borrow the term temporarily to refer to now?) As to the quote, I will tell you that it’s true. But last week, I suggested you make art anyway, because it’s good for your psyche, and will help you feel better. (It will take your mind off The Troubles.) If you take your camera with you on a walk, (of course you do, it’s your phone,) and then slow your pace a bit, on purpose, it might help you see the details that you miss, walking quickly on your dailyroute.
Maybe that’s what The Troubles are really about, on a metaphysicallevel?
At first, I called it The Pause, and maybe I will again. I hoped that it would allow me the chance to slow down, assess my life, and get my house in order. And in the last couple of weeks, it finally has. I’m feeling better, and going on lots of walks has really helped. (Shout out to BryanFormhals .)
If you walk around your world, and slow down, what might you find? Is it possible you’re living in Asia, and despite the enormous cliché we all imagine of Asian architecture, all you notice is the roots of colonialism? Much like so many of us fetishize elements of Asian culture,
maybe you can’t stop seeing what was left by the West? Maybe this isn’t a hypothetical exercise? This morning, needing something to write about, my wife handed me the latest book to come in, as my book stack was in my son’s closet, andhe was sleeping.
It felt wrong to skip the line, but I knew the book she gave me was good, as I’d seen a preview. It is excellent, and I’ll write about it another day, but it wasbleak for my mood.
I set it down, and then my son woke up. Rather than jumping the line, I reached into the stack, and pulled out something from April #2019. (All those #2019 submissions need to see the light of day! Free the books!)What did I find?
Something from Chris Wong, sent from Asia, and wrapped well and tight. The text on the cover, “Now & Then,” looked to be Chinese in origin, and I’m sure Chris told me about where he was from a year ago, but I don’t remember. The Polaroid on the cover is a hint, but the block wall literally “blocks” any visual reference we might have. Open it up, and we get the artist’s name again, the book’s title, and another Polaroid telling us look left, look right on a red brickwall.
Then, a succession of Polaroids. One after another, featuring Western style, colonial architecture. Reveling in the details. Picture after picture, we see columns and arches. Fancy corner after repeating motif.And where are we?
It doesn’t say.
For some reason I think Macau, though it could be Hong Kong. At first, it’s mesmerizing, and the washed out colors make it look old.Are they old?
When were they shot? Then we see a tank, and shit gets real for a moment, but that’s the only sign of modernity or violence. (This is not a protest movementbook.)
Just as I start to get a bit bored, (though the image sizes do change,) we see cathedrals, and the difference, the references to Christianity, snaps me back into my very-curious-mode. We finish, and then in the bio page, we learn it is Hong Kong. Not sure why I imagined they were Portuguese buildings at first, having seen English architecture in person, but it proves even a pro like mecan get fooled.
I get the sense this book is self published, and we learn that Chris is a commercial photographer in Hong Kong, specializing in Polaroid. But this work is his personal vision for sure. The image map at the end proves to be much more valuable than in most cases, as it is reveals the Now & Then concept. We learn what these colonial structures are used for now, (often in cultural capacities,) and what they were used for under the British.Now and Then.
The world has been through many crazy times before, including plagues, and Alison Herman theorized that people were digging “Mad Men” again because seeing the 60’s onscreen, another batshit time, reminded people we made it through that, and we’ll make it throughthis too.
See you next week.
BOTTOM LINE: MESMERIZING, BRITISH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN HONG KONG To purchase “Now & Then” click here _If you’d like to submit a book for potential review, please email me directly at jonathanblaustein@gmail.com. We are interested in presenting books from as wide a range of perspectives as possible._ THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: PAUL ELLEDGE Suzanne Sease - May 7, 2020- Personal Project
The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions. Today’s featured artist: Paul ElledgeIPHONE ONCE A
DAY
BY PAUL ELLEDGE
This is a body of work that I started January 1, 2009 as a visual social media experiment on Facebook. More than ten years later the project still continues. It can now also be found on Instagram at iPhone once_a_day as well as it’s own website of the same name. I am not a writer, thus I have chosen the camera as a tool to create a pictorial diary. In some ways, this project brings me back to when I started my love for photography. Rather than a commissioned assignment this project is personal expression. I’m making images just for me that are about how I feel as well as living in the now. This project keeps my skills sharp to the process of making images, as I am always looking, feeling and creating them. I photograph every day to capture an image that mirrors an emotion, an experience, or a feeling that illustrates my state of mind for that day. I have always believed that making images is not about where my feet are, for me it is really about where my mind and heart are. In order to bring some visual consistency, I have set up a few rules for this project. I can only make images with the iPhone and they have to be shot vertical. The images are always black and white, and I can only alter the images within the app network on the iPhone. The final rule is that the daily post must be done as a mobileupload.
To see more of this project, click here.
APE contributor Suzanne Sease currently works as a consultant for photographers and illustrators around the world. She has been involved in the photography and illustration industry since the mid 80s. After establishing the art buying department at The Martin Agency, then working for Kaplan-Thaler, Capital One, Best Buy and numerous smaller agencies and companies, she decided to be a consultant in 1999. She has a new Twitter feed with helpful marketing information because she believes that marketing should be driven by brand and not by specialty. Follow her at @SuzanneSease . Instagram Success is more than a matter of your talent. It’s also a matter of doing a better job presenting it. And that is what I do with decades of agency and in-house experience. THE DAILY PROMO – JUNE KIM A Photo Editor - May 6, 2020 - The Daily PromoJUNE KIM
@JUNEBUGKIM
WHO PRINTED IT?
Magcloud – having used Blurb before (who I believe owns Magcloud), I trusted the quality and ease of their online interface.WHO DESIGNED IT?
My friend David Jung who is an art director based out of LA. http://davidjung.studio/ It helps so much to have someone who knows you and your work shape how others will see it. He finessed the typefaces and page layouts, creating a system for displaying the images and even the page numbers—all the details matter. TELL ME ABOUT THE IMAGES? I decided to call this “Selected Works” because the images span the gamut of collaborative projects (in particular with my good friend and closest collaborator Michelle Cho), editorial assignments, fashion shoots, and personal work. I wanted the images to flow from one type to another and exist under the umbrella of “June Kim” without having to label or categorize them. HOW MANY DID YOU MAKE? 150 copies officially, and did an initial batch of proofs which turned out to be great too. HOW MANY TIMES A YEAR DO YOU SEND OUT PROMOS? I’ve been mulling on this first one for over a year, but going forward I’d love to make a promo yearly. In between, I’ll be putting my efforts into building a solid (and hopefully ever-evolving) website and promote that way. DO YOU THINK PRINTED PROMOS ARE EFFECTIVE FOR MARKETING YOUR WORK? I sure hope so. As timing had it, I printed these right before coronavirus hit the states hard, and then everything began to shut down. But I’ve sent some out, I’m holding on to some others, and we’ll see what happens! THE DAILY EDIT – JOHN HRYNIUK: COVID-19 PORTRAITS Heidi Volpe - May 5, 2020 -The Daily Edit
Air Canada pilot photographed wearing mask at Toronto’s Int’lAirport.
Woman prays in front of Church in Toronto on street. Church closed dueto Covid-19.
Decontamination workers pose for a photo before they clean aconstruction site.
A man walks his dog protecting him with a mask. Misc. pedestrian poses for a photo wearing his surreal mask. Costco shopper wears high end 3M respirator mask to shop at thestore
_Chinese traveller on his way back to Shanghai on a 22 hour flightwears PPE suit._
Disabled shopper poses wearing his mask and gloves while driving motorized wheel chair. Steel worker near construction site wearing his home made mask andsteel work helmet.
JOHN HRYNIUK
Heidi: What have you been doing during lockdown? John: When work came to a halt here in Toronto because of the pandemic, I needed to find a creative distraction. The need to be creative as a professional photographer during these difficult times isn’t a maybe, it’s a must. HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE ON THE STREET? I’ve been walking a lot and riding my bike around town. How long have you been on lock-down? This week in Canada we are entering our eighth week of a country widesemi-lockdown.
I decided to document the pandemic and the lock-down of my city in the best way I knew how, my photography skills. Little did I know that this distraction would turn into a full time on-going project. While documenting this event I’ve photographed so many interestingindividuals.
Which moments stuck with you the most? There are so many moments that capture these dynamic times. It ranges from a woman praying on the street in front of her church because it closed and to a man wearing a full on heavy respirator while shopping at Costco and a Chinese student at the airport preparing to travel back to Shanghai, wearing full personal protective equipment. These are indeed historic times we are experiencing at the moment during Covid-19 and we as artists should all try and document this in any way we know how. I hope that the photos that I take during this time will someday allow others to experience what this period in time was like. Difficult, emotional and the our ability to adapt to the change. For more portraits, please visit @johnhryniukphotography THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: MAKE ART IN DIFFICULT TIMES Jonathan Blaustein - May 1,2020 - Creativity ,
Photography Books
I have a confession to make. I haven’t made photographs, as art, in more than two years. (Well, until the other day, but that was as a favor to my wife, so itdoesn’t count.)
I haven’t made art with a camera in more than two years, and those pictures were crap. The tail end of my Party City series, and none of the 2018 images made the final cut. Which means, as an art photographer, I haven’t engaged my craft for the longest phase of my adult life. I’ve made editorial images for you, here in the column, but as a conceptual, studio based artist, it’s not the same thing. How do I reconcile this? Well, the way I learned about art, (and the way I teach it,) is that all avenues of creative expression are equally valid. It was assumed that most, if not all artists, would have multiple outlets in theircreative practice.
So the idea that one was inherently better than another, or more noble, was never ingrained in my mind. That I made photographs for my first twenty years as an artist does not have to be relevant to what I’m doing now, or next. In #2019, I made installations in a museum exhibition, and worked on a set of pencil drawings, based upon portrait jpegs I took from theinternet.
That was way out of my comfort zone. And I made a book. Now, in #2020, I’m leaning into this column, because it’s a stable foundation in an unstable world. Yet the camera has not called to me. But like I said, photography isn’t the only way to express ideas, it’s only one of many. (I recently surprised someone on FB by proclaiming her banana bread counted as art.) I’ve been teaching a long time, so much so that there were certain crutches I leaned on, year in year out, when I taught at UNM-Taos for11 years.
For teaching composition, for explaining the flow of visual information in a rectangle, I always used the same book: Hokusai andHiroshige.
That’s right: I taught the crucial element of photography by deconstructing Japanese 19th Century woodblock prints. Year in year out, this book delivered the goods, as it features Hokusai’s famed “Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji,” and Hiroshige’s “Fifty Six Stations on the Tokaido Road.” If we dated it, I suppose the camera was invented in a couple of spots in Europe, with some overlap to this time period, but on the ground, printmaking was the way visual information was recorded in 19th CJapan.
And its mass production allowed the images to be collected by regular people, much like the 17th C Dutch middle class spawned so many greatpaintings.
I wanted to share the book with you today, because the serene colors, all sorts of blue, and then the snow scenes, white on white, are a visual gift from the past. Why do I love them so, beyond the color, and the constant change ofperspective?
Beyond the curvilinear water, the slope of Mt Fuji, and the ochre contrasts to all that blue? It’s because this book represents a place in time so deeply, with the clothing and the postures and the boats and the hats. This is what we have of then. As in so many other cases, the art becomes the history. Which brings me back to #2020.To now.
I may not be making art photographs, (other than the other day as a favor,) and maybe you’re not either. Maybe you’re drawing, or painting, or bread baking or dancing or gardening or yodeling or playing French horn or practicing your French. (Bonjour, je n’aime pas le yodeling.) Or maybe you are making photographs? Maybe you’re pushing yourself? Maybe you’re making your best work, or are about to? Maybe all the frustration you feel, the anger, the anxiety, is going to spring up as something dynamic and meaningful? I’m asking, because last night, I saw some new work from my friend, and former student, Andy Richter , during an online critique I set up for the alumni and expected attendees of our Antidote Photo Retreat. (Andy was the 2019 Antidote Fellow, as he came out to run a morning Kundalini yoga program for us,along the acequia.)
During our group crit last summer, I pushed him to go beneath the surface. He was showing some aura portraits, with strong colors, were perhaps more style than substance. As an artist, I thought he had more digging to do, and I told him so. So that’s the context for understanding why I was so happy for Andy, seeing his new series, currently titled “Walking with Julien,” which received Minnesota public funding for an exhibition in Spring2021.
All the images were taken on walks with his young son, around his diverse Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood, (he’s originally from MN,) and everyone on the Zoom call, including an important museum curator, was blown away by the work. The portraits, in particular. Andy confirmed that certain aspects of fatherhood were tough, as it constrained the freedom to which he was accustomed. (This is a guy who photographs hermits deep in caves in India.) And now, even worse, like the rest of us, he was literally stuck at home. With his neighborhood as his unexpected muse. He admitted, as many artists have before him, that the combination of inner necessity and logistical constraints has perhaps forced him tosee more deeply.
Are these meditation walks? Does it matter what we call them? So I wanted to share the story, and some of the pictures, with you here today. And Andy was gracious enough to agree. Some days, maybe some times every day, things might seem grim. Certainly, I never thought I’d long for the insanity of #2019, buthere we are.
Please remember, art is best at times like these. It helps your psyche, day to day, and it records the moment for the future. Stay safe, and see you next week. THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: JUSTIN BETTMAN Suzanne Sease - April 30, 2020 - Personal Project The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions. Today’s featured artist: Justin Bettman When it became clear that the COVID 19 quarantine was going to keep us at home for a while, I was really bummed. This meant that the situation had become really serious, lives across the world were at risk, and all my commissioned jobs were cancelled. For a personal project, I wanted to create a series of quirky images that illustrated things that we could all be doing alone during this quarantine. This was the impetus for my latest personal project, Isolation Inspiration. There are many ways in which people are providing assistance during this global pandemic. I am extremely appreciative of the many healthcare and food workers on the frontlines, the photojournalists who are capturing the stories that need to be told, and the individuals sewing masks from home. While I don’t have skills to contribute in these ways, I started Isolation Inspiration in hopes of bringing a small smile to people’s faces during a challenging time. To see more of this project, click here.
APE contributor Suzanne Sease currently works as a consultant for photographers and illustrators around the world. She has been involved in the photography and illustration industry since the mid 80s. After establishing the art buying department at The Martin Agency, then working for Kaplan-Thaler, Capital One, Best Buy and numerous smaller agencies and companies, she decided to be a consultant in 1999. She has a new Twitter feed with helpful marketing information because she believes that marketing should be driven by brand and not by specialty. Follow her at @SuzanneSease . Instagram Success is more than a matter of your talent. It’s also a matter of doing a better job presenting it. And that is what I do with decades of agency and in-house experience. THE DAILY EDIT – ERIC BISSELL: PATAGONIA CATALOG + FARM TO CRAG Heidi Volpe - April 28, 2020- The Daily Edit
ERIC BISSELL
Heidi: How long were you a ranger and were you also shooting backthen?
I was a ranger in Yosemite for 8 seasons. I started when I was 19 years old, working in the park during the summers. Living in Yosemite was some of the most memorable years of my life, but I started to feel a bit claustrophobic living between the 3000’ granite walls and moved away last year. I studied sculpture in college, and although I always wanted to make work in Yosemite, I could feel my creative energy being siphoned into the physicality of being a climbing ranger and spending so many days out climbing on the cliffs. I was accustomed to working in studios for sculpture and picking up the camera gave me an opportunity to engage aesthetically with the world without the burden of three-dimensional work. I wasn’t shooting much at the beginning, but started shooting more and more in later years as I drifted farther away from sculpture. Were you shooting at the same time? When I moved to Yosemite, I didn’t have the perfect studio space to make sculpture, which is what I was studying in college. I also didn’t have a ton of the motivation to be honest, because climbing was such a full energetic and creative outlet. When I would get back to college after the summer, the experiences in the park would be fuel throughout the year. It was a great reset each season and helped me realize the need for both time to collect and time to create. Trying to do both at the same time has always been a struggle that I’m trying to improve at. What did the park teach you? Living in the park taught me how incredible it is to live in a place that people are deeply excited about. I got the opportunity to meet so many amazing and passionate people because they were constantly making pilgrimages to my (temporary) backyard. Yosemite gave me a lot of opportunities born from the shared love of a place. I was taking photos inspired by this community and was also invited to go on some trips through people that I met in the park. On a trip to Kenya, I took a photo that sold to Patagonia when Jane Sievert selected it. The photo department sent me a handwritten note with the catalogue that featured the image, and I was hooked..
How do you choose to climb only and not shoot, do you simply leaveyour camera behind?
Climbing at a high level is my passion and I’ve found it hard to accomplish that goal if I’m also thinking about my camera. It’s not an easy balance for me, so I’ve tried to minimize the conflict between shooting and climbing by creating a camera kit that is rugged, light, and easy to use. There’s the mental capacity and the physical capacity of the trying to do both activities at once. If I’m climbing at my limit, I don’t really have the mental energy to also be thinking about documenting what’s going on around me. I’d like to challenge myself on that, but for now it’s a limitation I face. On longer routes like multi-day walls every waking moment is spent on getting the team up the cliff, so taking time from upward progress to take photos can be a big deal. It’s important that I have climbing partners that trust me to get good images while not holding us back. This is always a struggle for me, especially on expeditions. I want to be contributing as an equal member of the climbing team, but I also am responsible to document. Often it means running double time. Jogging ahead to get a shot when we’re all tired anyways, or climbing higher on a wall, or strategizing what shots I want to capture the next day when it’s late at night and I’d rather be going to sleep. Now that you’ve returned from Kyrgyzstan,
when you are presented with an opportunity again, how will that experience help you decide? I’ve done a few international climbing expeditions with visual storytelling components. Each one was a unique process from the origin of the idea to arriving at the airport. I know that the decision-making process leading up to the next trip will be its own weighing of desire, opportunity, risk, and intuition. Something I witnessed from the first trip, was that as time passed after returning home, gradually an appetite appeared desiring for another comparable experience. I got something deeply satisfying out of being physically, emotionally, mentally challenged in a place far from my own home. That lingering buzz meant made me realize I would be more inclined to say yes the next time an opportunity came up. With Kyrgyzstan, I hesitated a little because I was trying to establish a life directly in contrast to the transient seasonal park service life. But a month isn’t really that long in the end. Do you say no to trips? I have said no to some trips, but I think it’s important to know that the more I say yes, the more I want to go on more trips. Like all experiences, big trips are a learning process. Looking back at my photos from Kyrgyzstan, I already see a lot of gaps in the images I chose to take. Being self-critical, I know that when I do something, I’m going to want to do it again if possible because I will have an opportunity to improve. Climbing as a sport is both macro and micro, do you see your own photography different now? You study miniscule rock features, you see big sequences. Does that pivot transcend into your work? In climbing we talk about “exposure” on a big wall like El Capitan. When you get that feeling most is when the micro and macro play off each other intensely – stepping from a ledge onto a blank face, traversing above a roof, leaving a corner system. Not every image needs to heighten exposure, but I think there are similarities in how we balance an action in a frame with the setting surrounding it and how the exposure of certain climbs can make us feel more present in a moment and place. Photographing climbing is a neat challenge and perhaps has parallels to many documentary photography situations. At its most simple, the goal is to balance the climber against their setting in a way that a viewer can feel both intimate, but not lose the larger sense of place. I’ve played with cameras my whole life, but climbing is what made photography into my work. I’m grateful to climbing for doing thatfor me.
During
Farm to Crag did you search for that metaphor of the handle and the crack, or did that evolve? The idea to place the farmer’s hands with the rake and the climber’s hands with the crack was an idea that developed while watching one of the climber’s (Alexa) hand appear around a corner on the climbing day of the event. I saw Alexa’s hand in isolation touching the granite and thought back to the day before when our hands were in the soil on the farm. I had been a little underwhelmed by the images I was getting out climbing and had encouraged myself to keep engaging and searching for a new way to look at the scene. It was a little pep talk and it paid off in that I was trying a little harder to see something new when Alexa’s hand catalyzed the visual metaphor. The next morning, I went back to the farm and got the image of the hands on the rake. What was the most unique thing you learned about your own work shooting Farm to Crag ? That was probably the key learning moment from Farm to Crag for me as a photographer. Look hard for the little symbols that connect what is happening in front of the camera with the bigger idea I am trying toget at.
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THE DAILY PROMO – TARONA LEONORA A Photo Editor - April 27, 2020 - The Daily PromoTarona Leonora
WHO PRINTED IT?
The work was printed by PrinterPro , a printing shop that has two locations in The Netherlands. They’re a fairly small company who do huge turnovers and I love their team.WHO DESIGNED IT?
Originally, I designed every single aspect of the book from the cover to the simple layout and deciding what kind paper should be used. When I had done a test print, I showed it to my friend Franky Sticks . He mentioned that the (original) cover design didn’t match what was happening on the inside in terms of the work, so he offered to do a cover redesign. And that is the version that is out now. Thank you Franky! TELL ME ABOUT THE IMAGES? The nine images that you find in the zine are a combination of works I have shot between 2015 and 2020 in different places on the planet. I have always very much been attracted to colors, and it is also something that has always been very distinctive throughout my work. I love what colors can communicate and how you can use them to convey messages on a different level than what instantly meets the eye. I ended up having this enormous archive that I had collected all over the world from all different times and I decided to pick a few that resonated with me the most and that I believed could tell a story on their own. The hardest part in the process was finding the balance and rhythm between the images in terms of placement and which image would follow up which. I was also very aware of how the colors could possibly work on the retina when being viewed and how the next or previous images could be influenced by that. HOW MANY DID YOU MAKE? I printed an edition of 50. HOW MANY TIMES A YEAR DO YOU SEND OUT PROMOS? This was actually the first time I did something like this in my entire timeline as a visual artist. All my work, so far, has only ever existed online. The idea for this thematic zine, came to me due to frustration of solely seeing my work in a digital space and never being able to hold it. I realised that I had a huge archive of images and I never knew what to do with it. So, this format makes it possible for me to work in themes that interest me and share them quickly in a tangible format. This also allows me to mix and match old archival work with freshly shot work and bind it all together according to theme. With that said, there are more themes to come. DO YOU THINK PRINTED PROMOS ARE EFFECTIVE FOR MARKETING YOUR WORK? I think printed work is always something that people enjoy. We are, after all, tactile beings. Even while living in this digital age, I still find myself having love for objects that are tangible and I wanted to make something that I would like. I always thought that if I will like it, someone else will too. So far, some people have bought the zine as well, so I suppose it’s not only effective marketing in that sense, but it’s also something to collect. VISITING LONDON, PART 7 Jonathan Blaustein - April 24, 2020 - From The FieldPART 1: THE INTRO
I was watching “Project Runway” with my family last night. (Well, that’s not exactly true.) They call it “Making the Cut”now,
though it’s still Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum leading a panel of judges on a fashion design competition. (They rebooted “Project Runway” with younger hosts, and Amazon bought the high-end talent, much like “Top Gear” begat “TheGrand Tour.”)
Anyway, (spoiler alert,) on episode 6, the judges were just about to cut an Israeli designer who’d won the previous week. Her victory had gone against the run of play, and then she reverted to her regularpoor form.
Despite the ugliness of the clothes she’d made, in gross yellows and blues that were tacky, (and cheap looking,) no less a hardcore critic than Naomi Campbell was defending the woman to the other three judges.Pleading, really.
Naomi Campbell, the supermodel known for throwing things at people, for tantrums, and whom my kids had called the toughest judge earlier in the series, was being sweet, and compassionate, going to bat for the young Israeli woman. She gave it all she had, truly. And then when they asked Heidi, an Italian influencer judge, and Joseph Altuzzara if she’d changed their minds, one at a time theysaid no.
They made the right call, as the contestant’s awful clothes that week, and tepid efforts earlier, left her as the least talented or capable designer at that point. I tell you all this, because the best part was watching the look in Naomi Campbell’s eyes as the cold, serious Heidi, and the otherssaid no to her.
It was like someone being told no for the first time in their lives. I could feel her pupils dialing millisecond by millisecond.Sad Naomi Campbell
She took it well, god bless her, but it was highly entertaining. I could read her mind, as she thought, “Rules? There are norules!”
And like Naomi, I tend to agree, when it comes to creativity. (Give ortake.)
There are no rules with this column. It’s a part of what’s kept it fresh over 8.5 years, each week. Now, we’re stuck in our homes, and can’t go anywhere. So I tried to force myself to write about Amsterdam today, but my creativity was letting me know it wasn’t quite ready yet. And I just did two book reviews. No book review today! Just as I was wracking my brain, the computer beeped from FaceTime, and it took me a second to recognize the ring. It was my friend Richard Bram , calling from London to check up on me, because I’d tweeted the day before that my mental health was cracking. I met Richard on Twitter 10 years ago, and he’s been in this column many times before. (He’s Zamirto my Tony.)
But I met two other friends on Twitter as well, and they both live inEngland.
That’s three IRL friends I made on Twitter. All in England, and I visited with each last year. Honestly, I always had this article in mind, but never got around to it. So today, we’re going back to London, in May of #2019. PART 2: A MONDAY IN LONDON Shortly before arriving in England, I changed my plans, and asked Hugo if I could stay in his place for six nights. It was a big ask, but he’s gracious, and I cooked, cleaned, and was out most days, all day long, to minimize my impact. Still, I thought it wise to take a day trip out of town. I was aware of Colin Pantall from Twitter, years ago, and knew he was a great blogger. But we’d never interacted much directly, that I can remember. 8 years of reading someone’s tweets and you get a sense of their taste and character, I guess. So I sent him a DM and told him I was in England, and would he be around London by any chance? He wrote back pretty quickly, and said I was welcome to come visit himin Bath.
I looked up “Best Day Trips from London,”and
sure enough, Bath was near the top of the list. (Less than an hour and half by train to the West, on the way toBristol.)
I wrote back sure, and he wrote back let’s do it, and then we made a plan to meet somewhere tangible, at a set time, because as I’ve said many times, my Verizon phone wasn’t working. Once done, I hit up Brian David Stevens , another photographer with whom I’d been trading jokes and silly links on Twitter for years. I also knew he was a good photographer, having reviewed one of his books years ago, and I kept up with his exhibitions via social media. He suggested we meet near a train platform in Paddington Station, at the coffee cart, because it would be easy to find. I had a rough idea what he looked like, and I’m sure he had the same, so when he walked up, though we’d never occupied the same continent before, it was asif I knew him.
Because I did know him.(The digital him.)
And now, in the #2020 pandemic, that stands in as real enough,doesn’t it?
I told him I was in no rush, and could grab a train in a while, as my meeting with Colin was late in the day. (I asked if he knew Colin, and he said he did, digitally.) We walked out of the station, and he took me around the block a bit. I remember taking some nice photos, so it’s cool I can share themhere.
He told me he knew West London well, because most Londoners stuck with the quadrant of the city they lived in when they first moved there. Even if they changed houses, or neighborhoods, they tended to stick to East, West, North or South, depending. He was a West London guy. Felt comfortable there, though he later admitted he and his wife were leaving the city for a house in theburbs.
I was ready for a coffee and croissant, as I wasn’t eating much those days, and needed a top up. So we cruised a few more blocks, and came to a likely contender. Up just 50 yards from there corner there was a flashy looking cafe to the left, which caught my eye, and an understated one I barely realized was a cafe to our right. I was inclined to the first, and Brian said we should go to thelatter.
He’s the local, I thought, so of course he’ll know. Turns out, it was the shop/cafe for über-trendy Monocle Magazine . And of course the young guy at the counter was a stone face hipster as well. The coffee was good, and the baked goodies were good too. But I can’t say as I remember either a year later, but I could tell you about the pizza at Zia Lucia like it was stillin my mouth.
Know what I mean?
Brian told me about a series he was working on, shooting pictures of a musician friend who’d tried to commit suicide. Now, it’s a year later, and I’ve seen links to the work onTwitter.
We chatted for an hour or so, and then he walked me back to the train station, insisting on escorting me through the ticket office, where I’d get a better deal than the machines. (You’d think it would be the other way around, but he was a local, I trusted him, and he saved me money.) We said goodbye at the gate, and I headed down to what became a very comfortable train ride, replete with good wifi.PART 3: THE BATHS.
When I told Brian I wanted to go to some hot springs in Bath, he told me that as far as he knew, you couldn’t go into the baths. Meaning the famous Roman baths. But I meant there was a resort in town, Thermae Bath Spa , with a decent day rate, where you could have a soak. (I saw something about it on the internet.) I was right, and as I read you didn’t need a reservation, I turned up shortly after arriving in Bath, but unfortunately right after I ate a street sausage. (Bad call.) I booked a spot in the outdoor communal tub, which was featured by itself, across the street, in its own private ancient courtyard.No lie.
I turned up at the appropriate time, and waited where they told me towait.
There was a young man sitting nearby, wearing a fedora, and he was singing to himself and making lots of noise. Rocking back and forth abit too.
I moved away, but didn’t realize that since he was waiting where I was waiting, he was to be my tub mate, along with two other dudes. So much for my plan to sit in silence, working out muscle kinks after a week of walking 15 miles a day. I remember thinking, “You’ve got to be shitting me.” But it’sall true.
The tub had seen better days, if I’m being honest, but was more than nice enough. And the water was warm and soothing, if not hot. It was the setting that was priceless, and I’d go back.If I could.
But this dude swam around, singing, the entire fucking time. And I did my best, martial-arts-Zen-monk-on-the-mountain routine to chill out my mind, and tune him out. There was the sound of water flow, which also helped, and I was pretty happy, except for the one time I opened my eyes and caught him staringright at me.
Once done, I walked across the city, which is so, so beautiful, and met Colin at the outdoor cafe at the stately Holborne Museum. I watched him approach from a park entrance, opposite from where I’d arrived, and was a bit surprised when he turned up. He was a tall, strapping guy, with graying hair, glasses, and a big, open smile. (Like a slightly nerdy action hero.) As with Brian, it was an immediate ease, though we’d never communicated outside Twitter, and we chatted for an hour and a half,easy.
When the cafe closed, he suggested we go for a walk, so I got a guided tour of the small city. I recall him telling me it was so very beautiful because money coming back from the slave trade had been pumped into the local architecture. He thought it might be a fair English comp to Santa Fe, for its beauty, nature, and artsiness. Jane Austen was mentioned. Then the pub was discussed, and so we headed there. But not before stopping at a church, across the street, in the middle of a graveyard, where we met a man prepping an art exhibition for an upcoming Bathfestival.
Colin took my picture in the graveyard, and then we went into the pub and had one too many. By the time we realized it was late, and dark, we were both hungry, and the train schedule suddenly got unfriendly. From leaving every half hour, it appeared I’d need to catch a train getting me in well after 11 pm. (Not the best time to be coming homeas a guest.)
We walked down the hill, through a secret staircase that led through a supermarket shortcut, (Waitrose, I think,) and then down to a Chinese restaurant Colin was fond of. He’d lived and taught in the area for years, and like Brian before him, had an ease of movement through his town. The place was closing, but they knew Colin, and we ordered two beef noodle bowls immediately. I think these folks came from Hong Kong, and the noodles had a flavor palette that was a bit new for me. (They hitthe spot.)
Like Brian before him, (these polite Englishmen!) Colin also escorted me to the train platform, but we saw it was to be delayed. He offered to wait with me, but drunk, and fed, I told him to headhome to his family.
The wait for the train sucked, no lie, and walking through Paddington Station to catch the tube at 12:30 am was no fun either. Much worse was the feeling, once I got back to Hugo’s, and crawled into bed, that I was going to throw up.It was 2am by then.
Hugo and his girlfriend were sleeping a floor below, but there were open doors, and sound traveled. If I woke them up, on my 5th night there, I’d never, ever be beinvited back.
What to do?
I crept down the stairs, into the bathroom, and used my entire mind energy to vomit silently.And it worked!
Can you imagine? Puking without making a sound? PART 4: MEETING RICHARD So I slept late the next day, and nearly blew Richard off. (We had longstanding lunch plans, though we’d already done Photo Londontogether.)
He was gracious, and told me we could meet for a later lunch, so after I hit up the Arsenal store at the Emirates Stadium, for some swag, I took a train to a train to a train to see Richard. If I recall, it required the overground, to get to his neighborhood, Limehouse, but wasn’t a terribly long or difficult trip. (Such greatpublic transport.)
As good as Richard is at looking at art, he’s an equally excellent tour guide, and told me stories about buildings and streets in Limehouse, East London. But, because I was hung over, I don’t remember the details. I think it used to be warehouses, given the waterfront location, but is nowtotally chic.
We ate in Ian McKellen’s pub, which I chronicled already, and took a stroll around the waterfront. We went to his apartment, and his studio. It was beautiful weather, and it felt so wonderful to be in the company of a good friend, IRL. The entire day, it didn’t even occur to me that we met on Twitter. But yesterday, when my mental health was cracking, he saw my Tweet. And today, he called to see how I was doing. (I was about to write my column, and rushed him off the phone.) So I’m going to hang up on you guys now, and call Richard back, because that’s what friends are for. THE ART OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT: BRUCE BROWN Suzanne Sease - April 23, 2020 - Personal Project The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions. Today’s featured artist: Bruce Brown A Portrait of a Modern Bullfighter in America. After a twenty-year break from bullfighting in Mexico, Agustín Gutiérrez returns to the ring. He talks about his passions and fears in this new version of bullfighting in the central valley of California. Depicted in this film is the Bloodless Variation of Azorean Portuguese Style Bullfighting a non-abusive, pro bull, non-kill interpretation of traditional bullfighting. No bulls during these festivals are injured or harmed.Directors Statement
What interested me in this project was the glimpse into this variation of Azorean Portuguese Style Bullfighting, a bloodless interpretation of traditional bullfighting. In that the bull and the fighter are on equal ground. Having witnessed traditional bullfighting in other countries it was refreshing to see the bulls leave the ring in the same shape as they entered. That cannot be said for the matadors who often are introduced first hand to the power of these creatures. I hope you enjoy this character study of this controversial sport.Bio
Bruce Temuchin Brown is a California based filmmaker/photographer/artist specializing in portraiture of the human condition. He attended the noted Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena. His clients include AT&T, United Airlines, NCR, Chevron Texaco, Money, Forbes, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, USA Weekend Magazine, Chronicle Sunday Magazine and Hemispheres, to mention a few. He lives in the Napa Valley with his beautiful wife and newborn son. To see more of this project, click here.
APE contributor Suzanne Sease currently works as a consultant for photographers and illustrators around the world. She has been involved in the photography and illustration industry since the mid 80s. After establishing the art-buying department at The Martin Agency, then working for Kaplan-Thaler, Capital One, Best Buy and numerous smaller agencies and companies, she decided to be a consultant in 1999. She has a new Twitter feed with helpful marketing information because she believes that marketing should be driven by brand and not by specialty. Follow her at @SuzanneSease . Instagram Success is more than a matter of your talent. It’s also a matter of doing a better job presenting it. And that is what I do with decades of agency and in-house experience. THE DAILY EDIT – LIFE ON PAUSE: KEVIN STEELE Heidi Volpe - April 21, 2020- The Daily Edit
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is Jacqueline and Lucifer: “I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’ve lived through many national disasters and other viral outbreaks but never seen such a response. Will masks & 6 ft distancing become a way of life? We are waiting and watching to see what unfolds both socially and culturally.”This
is Simon: “Sitting on the deck overlooking Topanga Canyon eating half my bodyweight in hummus and chips I feel really connected to not just the abundance of nature around me but also to the gazillions of people all over the world living through this strange time. The level of connection with friends and family (I’m English) scattered around this planet of ours has surprisingly increased even as we are all hidden away. The days are blending, I’m binge-watching OZARK, doing makeshift ‘Hillbilly’ workouts between endless cups of tea, and marveling at nature in full swing around me even as we are all are forced to re-assess our priorities.”This
is Ngozika making masks: “There’s something about this isolation that’s different.Being a freelance designer I’m home by myself anyway but there’s something sobering about the fact that my clients now are people all over the country that are helping to save lives and I don’t know them. I haven’t seen their faces and I don’t know their names. I just know that I’m trying to help as much as I can. So now my business is making masks. No more cocktail dresses. No more wedding gowns. Masks!”.“I
think that the hardest thing is being separated from other people. I’m cut off from my children, my grandchildren, and that’s been very hard for me. I’m a very outgoing person, I like people and I like to do things with people… I Have my dogs, this is it. And my husband. I don’t know how many people are feeling the same way, maybe some people are enjoying the solitude but I am not.”This
is Sade: “I had three jobs. At noon I got a notification that one job had shut down and by five I got a notification that my second job shut down. I am not working at all, it’s been very crazy. I’m trying my best to meditate and journal and just be. Hopefully it will be over soon. My mother was getting her nails done two weeks ago and I had to tell her to stay inside, this is serious. My grandmother is more aware: she’s stayed inside for weeks. I call her every day to check in on her. I’m keeping the bonds alive, virtually. I hope that’s something that stays when this is over: that people don’t take things for granted anymore.”This
is Flavio our delivery guy from the pharmacy: “I’ve been waking up with this view of the city empty but a feeling of unity. As much as I see emptiness on the streets I see unity. It’s like running a 400 meter loop. The whole world is taking a loop around the track, cleansing, we never did as much cleaning. The air is clean, the water is clean, the houses are clean. We’re halfway around the track and we’re gonna come to the finish line more united than before. At the same time that I feel togetherness…I’ve experienced something I never thought would happen. My car was stolen a few days ago while I was delivering prescriptions. Ten thousand dollars worth of medicine. That something like that would happen while everyone is banding together is just…crazy.”This
is Michael: He hears news from Italy everyday. Here he’s listening to jazz & braising something delicious the whole neighborhood cansmell.
KEVIN STEELE
HEIDI: HOW ARE YOU EXPRESSING YOURSELF DURING THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME? Kevin: I’m photographing this personal project documenting life in quarantine, shot through the front door, being safe, into the space of self-isolation, revealing life apart and together. We are all apart from each other but sharing a common experience. My productions and work shut down for likely months to come and I wanted to channel my creativity into a project that was meaningful. A project revealing how we live through these times, how we are feeling. WHEN DID YOU START THIS PROJECT? As the Mayor of Los Angeles announced Stay at Home guidelines, I photographed friends in their place of self-isolation beginning March 15th. As a commercial location photographer my work is full of color and emotion. This project brings me back to my roots documenting life. One camera, one prime, black and white. No assistants, simpleHOW DID THIS SCALE?
Friends referred others and people began to message me to be subjects. After I had shot 9 scenes I created an Instagram project page@life.onpause and
began posting the photographs on the homepage of my website. HOW DID THE NARRATIVE UNFOLD? After each shoot I began to ask a few sentences to share: not who they are but rather how they are really feeling through all of this, and I began adding the stories to the posts. Those stories have became inspiration for others as they share common fears as well as the positive aspects of coming together. Everyone’s situation is different but there is a common feeling through all of this. WHAT HAS BEEN THE COMMON OBSERVATION THUS FAR? Now in the 5th week of shooting over 56 scenes. I’m struck at how the tenor of the photographs and stories have evolved over time. Initially there was shock, denial and anxiety amidst the uncertainty. As we’ve settled in and realized that this will be awhile there are now feelings of acceptance and positivity in ourself-quarantining.
THE DAILY PROMO – THOMAS STRAND A Photo Editor - April 20, 2020 - The Daily PromoTHOMAS STRAND
WHO PRINTED AND DESIGNED IT? Done by Brian Donahue of bedesign in Minneapolis. I worked with Brian for many years when he was an art director at Minnesota Monthly. I knew his amazing sense of magazine design would translate well. I gave Brian an archive of images and heran with it.
TELL ME ABOUT THE IMAGES? Images are a mix from my volunteer work for the rescue Secondhand Hounds, some Purina projects and a couple of test shots. Several years ago I found myself an empty nester. I had one son who joined the Marines and another that left to study abroad. I said goodbye to my 16-year-old Golden Retriever just prior to that. I had extra time on my hands and decided to volunteer for the rescue. Volunteering has been amazing. It fueled a new direction in my work and granted me the chance to be involved in two things I love; animals and photography. Volunteering has nurtured me creatively, given me a sense of purpose outside myself and help create a new avenue ofbusiness.
HOW MANY DID YOU MAKE? I printed 1500 but send out 800. HOW MANY TIMES A YEAR DO YOU SEND OUT PROMOS? I plan on 2 of these types of promo per year. Previously I sent outpostcards.
DO YOU THINK PRINTED PROMOS ARE EFFECTIVE FOR MARKETING YOUR WORK? I am a believer in printed promos. If I was an AD I would want to receive printed pieces. I find email blasts incredibly disappointing. I am so sick of looking at Google analytics, clicks and opens. The promo landed on a couple of the AD’s desks at Checkmark Communications (Purina) the day they received sign-off on a great project. I did bid the job but sadly all shoots have been tabled dueto the virus.
I printed this promo late last fall and spent many hours folding and packaging the promos. I decided it was not a good idea to send out over the holidays and then got mired in refining my mailing list again and updating my website with new images before sending out the promo. The consequence was that it landed on peoples laps shortly before the virus took hold. I am hoping it is not completely lost in all of this. THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY: DROWNING IN NOISE Jonathan Blaustein - April 17, 2020 - Photography Books May you live in interesting times. It’s an old adage, a thing people say, or at least it seems thatway.
Maybe it’s a curse? I think the opposite is likely true, and that periods of calm, (in the world beyond my mini-alligator-filled moat,) are relatively rare. For every brief Pax Americana, (Post WWII,) there are a thousand Hundred Years Wars. And if plagues come around every 100 years, then many (if not most) people will live through one too. In the early days of our COVID-19 pandemic, someone asked me if I’d ever seen anything quite like this before. I had to answer honestly, and said “No.” “However,” I followed up, “I have seen bits of this that add up to Frankenstein’s monster. If you throw in one part 70’s gas lines,
add 9/11 with a dash of the Great Recession, and then chuck in the AIDS epidemic and some SARS/Ebola fear.” Now, I’m the first to admit, that’s one hell of a witches brew, and I’d prefer we had avoided this mess entirely. But we can’t take the pangolin out of the stomach that ate it, any more than we can seal the virus up behind a brick wall and leave it to rot. (I had no intention of dropping all these horror references today, but as I’ve told you before, the creativity is the boss, and I’m thevessel.)
A month + into the situation, and the comparisons are to The Great Depression, but I’m not sure if that’s how this will go. (Timewill tell.)
Businesses didn’t go out of business, en masse, they were closed for a public health emergency. And as awful as some people have it, financially, there are resources being thrown at the problem: unemployment payments, $1200 IRS checks, small business loans,freelancer grants.
(Not enough, I know.) There exists at least the possibility of this being a recession that ends gradually, (rather than a lengthy depression,) as most businessesre-open.
Will some not re-open? Will some people go out of business because ofthis virus economy?
Yes. Definitely.
But I went of business, with my commercial digital studio here in Taos in 2010, because of the Great Recession. And it was the best thing that could have happened, (eventually,) as I shifted my intellectual resources to writing and building my art and teaching careers, all of which have paid off. Would I have predicted how gig economy that would be? 3 side hustles making one creative living? Of course not. I hadn’t heard of the gig economy in 2010 because itdidn’t exist yet.
Do you catch my drift? People can’t tell you what comes next, not even the great Dr. Fauci, because no one knows. (Speaking of Italian-Americans, I never knew, nor knew of NY sports photographer Anthony Cauci, who passed away from the virus, but it sounds like he was an amazing guy. Here’s a link to the Go Fund Me page for his family.)Sorry. Where was I?
This is new ground on which we’re walking, yet it has also been trod by other humans in the past, be it Spanish Flu, Bubonic Plague or Trumpsanity. (Yes, I made that last one up.) Speaking of Trump, I’ve avoided criticizing him the last month or two, waiting to see if there was any chance he miraculously became a different person because of this crisis. I remember doing that with W Bush too, after 9/11, when he courageously said nice things defending Muslim Americans. But his general incompetence won the day, leading to two wars, and the aforementioned Great Recession. So I gave Trump the benefit of the doubt, but numbers don’t lie. The United States of America has lead the world in the number of cases, as a significant anti-science cohort holds sway here. Tens of thousands of vulnerable people, sick and old, people of color in particular, are dying, and at this point, it would be unconscionable not to point the finger at the federal government, for America’s lack of preparedness. These days, people want the truth more than anything. They want things to make sense. They want to trust that higher authorities know how to handle this, and that a smart, cogent response will allow the world tomove forward.
That’s what people want. But what they get is a lot of noise. Trump’s still name-calling on Twitter, like he always has, and now angry hordes in MAGA hats are storming the castles? Some preacher insisted on keeping his church open and then he died? The virus is caused by 5G poles, or can be prevented by smoking, or it came from a lab in Wuhan, or Facebook let 40 million misleading postsgo through
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or Ozzy Osborne bit the head off an infected bat at a party in Florida and started the whole thing there. (I made the last one up, but if somehow it could all be Florida’s fault, that would be apropos.) Just when we want things to make sense the most, they make sense theleast.
We want a Hardy Boys novel, with its satisfying conclusion, and instead we get a fuckingZen koan.
(Welcome to #2020.)
So when I went to my book pile today, I reached again for something I knew to be old. It was a bit unfair to people who submitted books in Spring 2019, as I’d been reviewing books each week forever. But then Rob and I agreed to try the travel writing, and few books were perused until late last year. Anything I pull from Spring 2019, by its nature, cannot be made directly for this moment. In fact, when this book arrived, I’d barely begun working on my own book, and I put so many things I’ve learned here into making mine. If all goes well, today, “Extinction Party” is being featured inthe Washington Post
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in their In Sight blog, and I was asked to write the article myself. (One of the biggest honors of my career, by far.) I’ll be telling you plenty about the making of my book, as it’s a big part of the Amsterdam travel series, and I want to share the knowledge I accrued. Foremost in my bookmaking decisions, as you might expect, was when to give contextual information, and how much to give. I write about that all the time here. Second big move? Making sure there were connections between images, and sets of images. (My editor, Jennifer Yoffy, was brilliant at building the spine that way.) Essays at the start, not too long, and titles on each page, to give context throughout. It’s ten years of my work, in different projects that we brought together in rhythm, with intention. Imagine my surprise, then, when I pulled a box from Radius Books, down the way in Santa Fe, as they’re among the best photo book publishersin the world.
Quality wise.
(I also know they have a strong Arizona slant with some of their artists, like Mike Lundgren and David Taylor.) It was an unsolicited submission, so I had no idea what was inside, but I was hooked by the cover for sure. It was “Signal Noise,” by Arizona artist Aaron Rothman, publishedin 2018 by Radius.
First thought?
Great cover.
No doubt.
And for everyone who says “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover,” I say bullshit. A great cover is a necessity for a great book. This, despite its great cover, is not a great book. At least, not by my standards. (Though I expect the artist, his dealers and collectors, and the publisher probably give it a 10/10.) Open it up, and turn the pages. You see straight landscape images, in the harsh Arizona desert sun, and then some are triptychs. It’s like an anti-aesthetic Cezanne, the repetition with slight changes. Then landscapes turn digital, and manipulations are obvious.What is the deal?
There are no words to explain. More digital effects, like solarizing, and things bounce and weavebetween styles.
What does it mean?
What is the connection? You know I treat books like a detective, and as a book maker, I gaveall the clues.
This denied me all clues. Then a series of beautiful blue sky shots, like Richard Misrach, one of the biggest inspirations of the Arizona crew. Overall, I like the colors, and the noise pictures, when they come, look like digital camera noise. (Hence the book’s title.) I fell and hit my head last week, (I’m OK,) and have had headaches all week. I’ve also written here, before, of headache art. This is a headache-inducing book, because trying to figure it out ispointless.
I know this, because the text, in the back, admits it’s a jumble of different projects, made over ten years. (Like mine.) But it’s designed not to make sense. At least until the end. They add a visual map at the finish, alluding to exhibition print sizes, making sure people get that these are big pieces seen on thewall.
As a mini catalog raisonne, I think it’s a hit. (That’s why I said earlier the dealers/collectors would love it.) And I must admit they do clear up the confusion at the end, with an essay and artist interview, which are meant to answer questions that were up-until-then unanswerable. This book is the koan for the moment. The signal and the noise.So #2020.
BOTTOM LINE: WELL-CRAFTED BOOK OF SEVERAL ART PROJECTS, CONFUSING INITS NARRATIVE
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