Facelift.

Rehashed a shot from one of my archived personal project of white objects on white backgrounds with blown out ethereal lighting. The one below is a mannequin head with a self portrait attached.

Repeats and Magrittes.

Two for the price of one! Huzzah!

What defines my life today is technology. It’s there when I wake up and I need it to do my job. Another thing that defines my life is where I live. I live in the place that I have dreamed of living since I was a kid. New York represents, for me, all my hopes and dreams that I feel I have achieved thus far in life. For this one, I wanted to merge the two, so I turned the skyline into hardware. The bottom image was originally a Manhattan skyline that I photographed from Dumbo (Brooklyn) at sunset. I deleted the sky and added in a cloud scene from a sunny day. Then dragged each layer and repeated creating a pattern. I did the reverse with the clouds so you see the outline of the sklyine floating upwards, repeating as well, but away from the skyline.

As this project is progressing, I am researching more and more surreal photographers. For this one below, I was told to check out Rene Magritte. I was familiar with his work before this (most famous for “The Son of Man”). But it wasn’t until this project began that I started to think about him inspirationally.

Rene Magritte - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

Day 2, surreal 2

The portrait is a photo that I took at the met of a Alfred Stieglitz silver gelatin print when they were doing a retrospective of his work last winter. The image is actually a very sad portrait, you get very lost in her eyes, and (for me at least) feel her pain. The photo had been sitting in my hard drive in a folder under the name “why can’t I delete you?!”. It’s filled with random shots of things that for one reason or another just intrigue me. She was/is one of them. So for this shot I wanted to make her less appealing to me, make a mockery of her. To do so, I knew I’d have to mess with her eyes. I had a photo of a plastic baby doll head, so I put those in place… Keeping the color even though the image is b&w. I then colored her lips in to balance the color of the eyes. Lasty, I drew a tattoo style tear drop on her face to comment back on the original sadness that Stieglitz intended to have.

Surrealism

Ever since I had the ability to pick up a pencil I have always drawn, painted, sculpted, photographed (etc etc etc) an imaginary world. A world that I wish others were able to see. I guess that I’m one of those few adults that has still been able to hold onto my imagination… I feel very lucky for that.

I’ve always viewed myself as more of a “fine artist” (if you will…). I don’t think my style always fits into conformity. My favorite project in college was one where I took street portraits of friends, and replaced their heads with forks, spoons, and knives.

I think its important to take time out of your day and try to look at the world differently. Try to imagine the unimaginable. Below is one of my surreal landscapes that I’ve been working on.

Wedding Shoot

About a month ago, I had the pleasure of shooting an amazing wedding for a beautiful couple that got married in a book store! I shot with my awesome roommate and best friend, Fraylie ( http://fraylienord.com/ ). Obviously, the goal of this wedding was to actually shoot the event, but I couldn’t help myself and shoot some still life/quiet moments. Here are a few selects that I loved from the night.

Tea Wing

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of working with an awesome group called Tea Wing.

“Our mission is to help you discover how authentic Japanese tea can be part of your creative endeavor” (from their blog, htt://teawing.co )

They’re an awesome company selling an awesome product, make sure you go and purchase some of their delicious teas!! Below are just a few of the shots that I worked on with the team, but make sure you also go through their website to see all of the product shots I did as well!

http://shop.teawing.co

Best of Barney's...

As many of you know, I am switching jobs! Macy’s hired me as a photographer for them… I don’t officially start for another week and a half, but I’ve been going through my Barney’s work computer and picking out my favorite shots that I have done for them… enjoy :)

Lightbulbs

It’s been forever since I’ve posted… I can think of about 100 different reasons as to why exactly this is, but the truth is that I just haven’t felt that creative as of the late I suppose. I recently moved to Brooklyn and my main concern has been decorating. I love decorating.

ANYWAY… I have been very into light lately. The way it can grace a face in the different times of day or the way it can creep into your room in the morning through the crack of your shades. I find myself stopping short on the streets of manhattan and just staring at the way the sun falls across a street. But, also as a photographer I am trained to notice these things… Donuts nothing out of the ordinary BUT… This obsession with watching light has transformed me into watching the way lightbulbs light the night.

A big project is brewing in my mind… A landscape… Yes, it’s true I am actually going to leave the comfort of my still life studio for this project!!! A landscape full of lightbulbs, the finesse details are still going on, but it feels good to have the creative juices flowing again :-)