Baltimore Magazine, January 2008

Lots of work in this one...

Photographed for the "Art Means Business" piece as well as Bill Stevenson, tattoo artist and co-owner of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum, for the voices feature.

And don't forget to check out the table of contents:





I like that they used different images for Bill in the contents and in the piece. This one is a full page:



And here are the spreads of the "Art Means Business" piece. The woman, Felicia Zannino-Baker, owns a shop and gallery in Highlandtown. She is also on the board of directors for the Highlandtown Arts and Entertainment District. The man in the chair is Dan Schiavone, who co-founded the Creative Alliance and owns a gallery (Schiavone Fine Art) on Highland Avenue. The other images are shots of the Creative Alliance, interiors of the Copycat Building (thanks to Kevin And Vijay), exteriors of the Load of Fun gallery, North Avenue, and the Cork Factory building (interior and exterior).

Home for the Holiday

Not having a pet of my own, I don't get to partake in the guilty pleasure and phenomenon that is "pet photography", made popular in recent years by camera phones and affordable point and shoot digital cameras. But spending the holiday with the family gives me time to photograph their two overgrown golden retrievers, Abbey and Libby, and see what all the fuss is about.



Although Libby (the one in the front) was thrilled to be in front of the lens and did what she could to keep it that way, Abbey was a little more camera shy. Luckily, Libby left momentarily to investigate a sound she thought she heard and gave me a second to get this shot of Abbey:

More Reflections

Just added one of my favorite images to the "Reflections" gallery on the website...



The flimsy quality of the mylar bends, blurs, and reflects back upon itself, creating multiple reflections and visual chaos. They can be so chaotic that it would be impossible to replicate a particular distortion. They can also be so transient that it only lasts for a fraction of a second, making it extremely difficult to really see the reflection and everything that's happening in it. Photographing them becomes very intuitive- I have to respond to something in front of me without even completely seeing it. Often times looking at the images after a shoot is the first time I actually get to see them.

Baltimore Magazine, December 2007

If you pick up a copy of this month's Baltimore Magazine, feel free to skip to the good parts. There's a photograph I did for the "Upfront" feature of Mt. Vernon on page 73, and a portrait of local ambitious business owner Larian Finney on page 114. And if you don't live in Baltimore, just scroll down:

I'm thrilled with this shot of Mt. Vernon. The sun had just gone down and there was this weird purple tint on the horizon that the long exposure really emphasized.



For the shot of Finney, I used strobes to light him on the street outside of his office building. I love how he stands out so much from his surroundings and the available light around him.



And be sure to check out next month's issue to see photos I did of Bill Stevenson, local tattoo hero, and several images I shot for an article they're running on the various arts districts here in B-more!

Reflections in Mylar

For the past couple years, I've been experimenting with photographing reflections of figures and faces in mylar. I love the misty, translucent quality of the mylar, and how it dulls the the color and makes the reflections even more surreal. This is from a press release from a recent show of some of the images:

“It is important for me to find these distorted forms, to experience
the discovery of them and their amorphous, dreamlike nature. I
could never create them using digital or darkroom manipulation.
The peculiarity of the distortion through the mylar is far more
bizarre than anything I could consciously conjure”.

To download the full press release, CLICK HERE

To see more images from this series, CLICK HERE