why don’t birds walk backwards?
Photography is full of questions. What can a photograph do? Gesture, expression, composition: these are things that we use to construct images, but how we move is what I really want to know. Make me move somewhere. Or don’t make me move. Sometimes I forget about my body and I focus on one thing. I [...]
Fear
I have been focusing on portraits of people and things, mostly at night and with flash. I see these as photographing memories or feelings. The night I made these photographs, I had been driving around suburbia alone. The further from the city I got, the darker it became. My childhood fear of the dark came [...]
A video that seriously needs a different title…
Hello people, I hope everyone is doing well. I’m glad I can finally share this video with you. Hopefully it will say more then my explanation in words can. For those that want to read however, the words are included under. [youtube feNbYBmJ8xg] I started shooting videos with my cell phone in 2003 when I [...]
DRAFT – the process
The process of making DRAFT has been an arduous one. We have spent more hours creating this magazine then socializing, photographing, going to class, sleeping… We have been fully committed to making this show the best we are capable of. We spent two weekends sorting through over 700 images, we printed out almost all of [...]
“The Electro Wars”
So. Last August I got this facebook message from this guy. To provide context, I found the original message (sorry steph to put you on blast!) “Hey Ysanya – I’ve been shooting a documentary film entitled, “The Electro Wars”. I’ve been in production since January. The film basically explores the electro boom era in 2008 [...]
Draft Magazine opening
Matt Kelley, Eduardo Javier, K. Nicole Murtagh and myself curated 7th annual Draft Magazine. The opening for the magazine is 2WEEKS away. Busy exited and scared. Join us for the Draft Magazine Release Show. Opening April 2nd 8-11pm at the Hungerford Building Suite E258, 1115 E. Main Street Rochester NY 14609. Also, more information, directions [...]
Raw scan apprehension
I am always fearful of putting unfinished work on here. I want to believe that people will hold their judgement, but thats never the case is it. This last quarter has been very freeing for me though, and this blog is about process isn’t it? I want to detail this project specifically because I am working in a way that I never have before. This is the first shoot.
Cape
I really need to get a printer. I’m going to be organizing a NYC print swap and really would like to see a few of my favorite Rhode Island pictures printed.
Fear and motivation
For Fine Art (my last quarter of college!!!) this quarter I need to conceptually spin some project. I am an Artist, I know that. But the teacher I have now wants us to work on a conceptual project. I just want to work on an editorial portfolio. After we graduate in ten weeks (!!!) I [...]
From my parents attic.
Monday I was waking up at the GranBell Hotel in Shibuya, Wednesday I woke up in Williamsburg, and now I’m writing from my parents attic trying to make sense of the past two and a half weeks and realizing I live here again. My following posts will be devoted to Tokyo. I cannot quite put into [...]