Photographer of the Day
We haven’t posted a “Photographer of the Day” in a while, so it’s about time…
Michele Abeles’ work is a sultry, yet unnerving mixture of monumental nature, empty scenes and portraits. The Yale alum has been praised in recent years for incredible emerging works. The images leave you feeling like you’ve witness memories or echos of what has been, nostalgic and a little forlorn.
Kenny Bloggins is back!
Josh Letchworth has recently revived his blog and it’s worth a read. He also has a great photo submission thing going. Check it out here…
Photo Diary…
Photographer Theodora Allen does interesting photo diaries of people she knows and places she visits. It’s a great way to document feelings and experiences beyond words. They’re quite beautiful. Enjoy!
photo of the day
StudioNemo’s friend Cel Jarvis sent us some eye candy today of her latest work for hawks by Geren Ford for Urban Outfitters. YEAH CEL! Your work is awesome. Check out more here
Great curation…
The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.
I love the idea of a relational art and making biographical art through the places and people nearest to you.
Carlin Sundell travels back in time, Brings back photos as proof!
Well not exactly, had to give the National Enquirer headline a shot. Carlin Sundell works as a freelance photographer here at StudioNemo and is a good friend of ours. He recently attended a workshop on wet collodion plate photography. Wet collodion plate photography was developed by Frederik Archer in the mid 19th century. The image is exposed on to a glass or tin plate covered in collodion, a viscous liquid, made by dissolving nitrated cotton in a mixture of alcohol and ether and then light sensitive salts are applied to the plate, exposed, to create the photo. You literally need a entire chemistry kit in the field and work quickly in an ether rich environment to develop the plate. At some point a gas lantern is involved in the process… Chances for “KA-BLEWY” go way up! I suppose that’s half the fun, eh? Well fortunately Carlin returned not looking like THIS, and brought us back some amazing photos. Gives you an appreciation photography’s early years in today’s mind-numbing point and shoot world.
Click ahead to see some shots of Carlin in action! (more…)
Talk about location!!!!
Aren’t we lucky here in the great NW to have the locations that we have. I am so happy to see that someone is using it well…Check out the beautiful photos that Raymond Meier took for New York Times T Magazine in the Olympic National Forest.
Tod Seelie. Let’s Stick To Landscapes.
Being a skeptic of the field of landscape photography, I was shocked when the work of Tod Seelie changed my mind. After perusing (and loving) his landscape collection I was more than eager to take a look at his portraits. Alas, I was really disappointed…it seems as if he shoots all his humans subjects as “still life” and in doing so looses the most interesting thing about portraiture; Emotion. With such amazing characters as the ones he shoots I would hope for something more than a rigid figure standing front and center.
However, many seem to disagree with me. His work has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Cleveland, and Miami. And has been featured in some amazing photo books including Backyard Shakedown and Hijacked.
Digital Photographer Rant
TG found Adam Carolla’s ‘week in rage’ rant about digital photographers and the time it takes them to get the shot, pretty funny. Have our days gotten longer because we aren’t forced to get the shot in a certain number of frames? What do you think?
The bit about photographers starts around 3 min 15 secs.
Last Week in Rage 09.08.08
Campaign of the Day
I know it’s not new, but I couldn’t resist. Not only is it for a good cause, but it’s brilliant design. The photo is so good because it positions the animal in its natural state and imposes upon it the mappings of clothing patterns.
We love Barack at Nemo
One of our own, Christopher Douglas, has designed these amazing T’s to show his (and I would venture to say all of our) support for Barack Obama for President!!!!! We had a short but fun shoot for them in the studio today. Beautiful shirt, beautiful photo (Carlin Sundell), beautiful models (Liz and Tyler) and a beautiful new start for the US of A. BARACK ME LIKE A HURRICANE!
Lee Miller Exhibit at MOMA
The SFMOMA is showing a retrospective of photograper Lee Miller’s work. She was the muse of Man Ray and an amazing surrealist photographer/photojournalist:
One of the most unconventional female artists of the 20th century, Lee Miller was admired for her classical beauty, intelligence, and photographic talent. This retrospective spans her career as a photographer and explores her transformation from muse and model to groundbreaking artist in her own right. Born in New York in 1907, Miller modeled for Vogue before meeting Man Ray in Paris in 1929. Inspired by his work, Miller began creating her own striking surrealist photographs. Later, she became a war photographer for British Vogue and was the only woman in combat photojournalism in Europe during World War II. After the war, she continued a nimble photographic practice, with later work including high-comedy portraits of art-world friends such as Max Ernst, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and Saul Steinberg. - SFMOMA
Check out the interactive exhibit here
Mark Borthwick
Mark Borthwick is an amazing experimental fashion photographer but his creative doesn’t stop there. He often accompanies his photographic work with writing, drawings, and even live performances. As a photographer, musician and film maker, his work has a distinct feel of a still capture of a motion reel that you could really only get when you approach your work with this much original diversity. Theres a great interview with him on fecal face.
PocketWizard at High Cascade
PocketWizard put up a cool blog post about the HCSC Photo Camp. Check it out here…
This year PocketWizard teamed up with the camp and StudioNemo to hold the first ever PocketWizard/High Cascades Photo Competition where students submitted their best shot from the weeks photo sessions. The top two images won a pair of PocketWizards.
Jon Herre’s image of a rider on a backlit rail
and Kevin Heitczman’s fill light hand plant top the prizes this year.
The Littlest Heroes Project
The lovely photographer Cheyenne Ellis sent us a little call to action this weekend. A project called THE LITTLEST HEROES is a non-profit based organization made up of professional photographers nationwide that provide free photo sessions to children who sometimes feel forgotten because of their illnesses. Their mission is to let them know that they are heroes to many, and to share their inspirational stories and photos with the world.
If you would like to help or request a session for a little one that you know, visit The Littlest Heroes Project.
Go Boom by Plain T
When i hear the word boombox, i immediately think of the scene in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing where Radio Raheem’s ghetto blaster runs out of batteries, and he has to go to the corner store to buy “20 D batteries”. Canadian photographer Lyle Owerko is so moved by this electronic icon he decided to make it the subject of a portrait-like study of the influence of the boombox. His visual time line of the boombox captures the transformation of a stereo into what Lyle describes as a form of portable entertainment and expression.
Tristan Still…
is a plethora of skateboarding creativity! His website it really diverse and if you want to learn more theres a little interview with him at Lost E Minor.
Irony and Polaroid
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Polaroid Manipulation
Jenelle Norris’s book “Polaroid 600 and Spectra Film: Manipulations and Creative Techniques” was set to print the same day Polaroid announced they wouldn’t be making film anymore.
Her book has been published for free online and now we can do amazing things with those last few polaroids we can get our hands on.
Communication Arts Photography Annual
The annual photography issue came out for Communication Arts and they have some local talent featured, friends of Nemo and a lot of animals…
David Emmite was one of the local talent mentioned for his work with Nike. He worked on this beautiful Nike piece with the talented Mr. Michael Shea as creative director and Angelo Colletti and Eric Duvauchelle as art directors, all of whom we’ve had the great pleasure of working with here at Nemo. Congrats!
Another friend of Nemo who was featured in the annual was Embry Rucker, for his work on a Billabong ad campaign. Congrats!
The always observant Mr. Graves noticed the abundance of animal photography in this issue (I can’t help but love it!), so I’ve picked some of my favorites…
Peter C. Lavery
and Nina Francois
Hope you enjoy!
Photographer of the day- Pete Eckert
Pete Eckert is a blind photographer who uses his other senses to visualize the world.
” I am not trying to depict the sighted world. I am trying to show the world I now see using my other senses. My memories, emotions, as well as sound and touch play a part. Some people don’t think I am blind after looking at my work. I am a visual person, I just can’t see.”
He certainly depicts a way of visualizing the world through energy perception. The concept and actualization are beautiful and inspirational!
Poster show at Nemo
Stapled and Torn showcases some of the most talented poster artists in the NW. Come by and check it out tomorrow Friday August 1st from 6pm-10pm at 1875 SE Belmont.
Artist of the day…
Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn based artist whose work is absolutely amazing and disturbing. I guess I have a thing about disturbing work!
HCSC Photo workshop - Day one
Day one-
Arrival Day. The camp was sold out 2 months in advance and had a waiting list of 10. The lucky 24 that were able to attend this years session at Mt. Hood and High Cascade Snowboard camp were witness to snowboard history. Snowboarding photog and icon, Bud Fawcett gave the class a history lesson and set the foundation for how snowboarding as we know it today actual started. In many ways, the surf and skateboard industries embrace their heritage. Snowboarding is less historical so it is nice to have Bud to remind us all where we came form as snowboarders. Studionemo is stoked to be a sponsor of the event!
Worthy of PDN?????
I was checking out the PDN blog this morning and was really sad to see not one, but TWO articles about celebrity baby photos- the ubiquitous Brad and Angelina twins and Jessica Alba’s baby. I guess it spurns the question of whether a blog should adhere to any standards? Of course it depends on the blog, but a blog linked to a respectable photography publication looses points in my book for even discussing paparazzi crap. Am I wrong?