I wake up at 6am, fill my travel mug with black coffee, throw some leftovers into a yellow Dewalt© cooler and drive an hour and a half to an old high school where I have to wear a hard hat, dust mask and steal-toed boots. There is this young schoolteacher who is spending his summer working for a construction company. He has spent the last week stripping lead paint off the stair railings. You can tell that this guy is just visiting this life of hard, physical labor where the music choices fluctuate between ACDC and Lincoln Park and conversations are attempts to discredit the masculinity of the other workers.Read more
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Sunday and Wednesday
Change the Flow
It has been a while since I have written anything substantial about my work or process. And that’s why we are here, to talk about process. As graduation came I couldn’t image how I was going to continue my work flow. Shoot medium format, get film processed for free, scan for free. Everything was free except purchasing film. After graduation,Read more
Mr. Fuchs, slight return.
Biographical update: Got back from roadtrip, developed film, scanned film, still editing / working on project. Snow started falling Jake and I started to take advantage of snow with the snow sports. I started to shoot the sequel to Colonized Waterways, and then I broke my knee. 5 months and 6 sheets of 4×5 later I was back on myRead more
My last day turned into the first.
My last day at GQ was supposed to be this upcoming Wednesday. Along with interning at NYLON, I did a solid 9-10 months of free work. Granted, I didn’t enter both environments for lucrative results, but I’d say I’ve paid a lot of dues and well, it actually worked out. Last Thursday I was hired at GQ, to essentially continueRead more
Interview – Ann Woo
I find it hard to make a specific point here. Instead, I have noticed that I spent most of those times alone in the past and reflecting constantly on my own thoughts and feelings. I tried not to judge whether these thoughts and feelings were right or wrong, but I would think very hard on why and how these thoughts came about. Read More
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Interview – Ann Woo
Ann Woo discusses with us her thoughts on self criticism, her process of making, and how she supports her work.
"I do create plans but they rarely work – sometimes because my feelings have changed or I have caught myself trying to justify a false thought. But other times, I would look at or think about certain things over and over again, almost in an obsessive way"
Video Interview – Doug Dubois
I proudly present to you, the first exclusive Sunday and Wednesday video interview with photographer and lecturer Doug Dubois.
"My first thing that I really loved to do, because it gave me courage that I didn't have otherwise was to go to new york, visit my father, and walk around wall street photographing business men. Thats what made me realize that this camera was my ticket outside of myself."
