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New Jersey Funk
So I have taken new images since i’ve started this job. No I haven’t gotten them processed. Yes, I’ll have them soon.
Boy how I wish I could shoot digitally sometimes.
So I’m looking for a roommate. It’s perfect for someone who wants to work in NYC but doesn’t want to pay for a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. It only takes about 25 minutes or less to get into midtown Manhattan by bus (which the stop is at the end of my street). If you know someone who might be interested, let me know?
Anyway, I decided to scan a few of the many many unscanned negatives I have surrounding me. It’s work from the project I had just began on my home state.
Dear RIT Photo Majors
Hey guys, just wanted to give you all a heads up about Bron’s new contest. It’s going to be juried by Markus Klinko & Indrani which is pretty awesome. Here’s the link to the contest for more details.
http://www.bronimaging.com/kandi
The top prize is a Mobil A2R kit with 2 heads (one mobilite 2 head and the second head of your choice…mobilite 2, unilite or ringflash c). Plus you’ll get a bunch of great exposure. And of course it’s free to enter! It runs all the way until July 1st but don’t wait til the last minute! Make me and RIT proud!
If you have any questions email me!
Chris@bronimaging.com
The people are just for scale
I think I’m getting bored with my work. Are you getting bored with my work?
Domestication
It’s a little odd working a 9-5. I wake up very early. Shower, make myself a lunch, make something for breakfast then I listen to jazz on the way to work. Work until 5 then I drive home and make myself a nice full dinner. I work out before I go to bed. It’s new for me! I enjoy it. I enjoy my new job as well. Everyone is very friendly and I have plenty that I can help out with.
So I still haven’t quite made myself at home here. Still no bed yet (that’s a big one), and I’m still missing my Duke. I also need to start making more time to both read and play my guitar. I also haven’t taken any new images in a few weeks because of all the moving so I’m missing it. But with the ability to use the fantastic gear from Bron, I should be shooting again in no time. I only took the few necessary books with me because of space….
- All my Vonnegut
- All my Bukoswki
- Alessandro Bertolotti “Book of Nudes”
- Peter Bialobrzeski “Lost in Translation”
- Jeff Wall “PHOTOGRAPHS 1978-2004″
- Andreas Gursky “Works 80-08″
- Stephen Shore
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
I have so few photo books. It makes me sad. I want to start saving to collect them. Soon!
Anyway, so I’ve started going back through my London stuff since I had taken a little break from it to work on new things. I’m going through and making copies of all the images that interest me so I can see them all at once (since as of now, they’re all separated by date). Here’s a small selection I put together. I hope I haven’t posted these yet.
I’m having some color issues with the last one that I’m still trying to work out. What do you think about this grouping?
The Start of Something New
So once again, I took a bit of an absence of posting new things. Again, I’m sorry. When I first left RIT at the end of the summer, I felt a bit lost. I was no longer employed at a job, which despite how much all the other employees would bitch and moan about, I really loved. I had to pack everything I owned into boxes from a place which for once felt like my own. I came back to Rhode Island, moved back into my parent’s house and had no idea where I wanted to go. Continuing all summer to work on all the images I created while in London, I desperately wanted to go back. I really still do. I was so inspired there. It was odd that I finally found myself inspired in Rochester. Maybe I could be inspired wherever I found myself. I guess that was the hope.
It took a while for me to really feel settled again. I was still living out of boxes. I tried to hang out with all the friends I never really got to for the past four years, being away 90% of the time. I continued photographing…aaaaaand i just spilled soda on my keyboard. Damnit, I hope it doesn’t stick. Anyway, so I’ve been in Rhode Island for a while. Connected with a lot of old friends and made a lot of new, and finally felt settled a little bit (though still unemployed with little idea of what to do).
So for the past month I’ve been in the process of moving to Palisades Park, NJ. Just out of the city. It’s a really nice place. Good roommates. But I haven’t really gotten settled in yet. In fact right now I’m in RI for the holidays so finally I’ll be able to take my computer, my typewriter and my guitar with me to my new apartment. Finally a chance to settle down and get into the groove of things. I just got a job at a fantastic company, which I’m more than excited about. Things are working out pretty well. A great start to a new year I’d say.
So it’s going to be a new year. I’m going to be doing two polar plunges on new years day. This new job will be full time 9-5 so I’ll be finding as much time to photograph on the weekends as possible. I’m psyched. I need to find a place that processes film near me.
So cheers. Cheers to a new year, new work and life changes!
A Whole New Start
So I’ve been absent the past two weeks unfortunately. There’s been quite a bit going on. I’m finally moving. To Palisades Park, NJ. It’s a big change for me. I’m going to be looking for work in NYC. So in dealing with this move, I haven’t had much time to scan the 6 or 7 rolls of 120 which are laid out around my desk. This will change very soon once I move the rest of my stuff into my new apartment. In the meantime, I have some assisting coming up next week in Rhode Island and I have about 2 billions emails to send out in hopes of getting some work. I just have to keep myself calm and take things one step at a time..despite having 20 things that need to get going thrown in my face. Just gotta breathe.
I’m leaving a lot of things behind in Rhode Island. Because of a certain roommate, I can’t take my beloved cat with me to NJ unfortunately. I think that’s the single thing that bothers me most. I’m leaving behind a part of myself.
In the meantime, I have two images from Cape Cod, when me and Mike Fuchs took the trip up there for the day. I really want to get away from my square frame. I feel like my images will change drastically with another format. Maybe that will change soon too.
It’s fantastic to see how much everyone is updating and what everyone is up to. I owe quite a few of you comments that I keep meaning to sit down and write but keep getting side tracked. Keep up the great work everyone.
Looking Out at the Ocean
A big welcome to Mike! I always appreciate his feedback on my posts and I’m sure you all will too. Most of my images on this lovely Wednesday were actually shot in his company. I’m continuing along on my exploration of Rhode Island. There’s not much else to be said other than that.
So successful? No? Let me know what you think about this recent set!
Refreshing My Perspective
I’m not sure what this project is. That’s as simple as I can put it. It could be me attempting to break this strangle hold that my small little state of Rhode Island tends to have on me. It could be attempts to break beyond a photographers block that I always seem to have whenever I come back to this place. It could be an early attempt at documenting a state that not many people have known, visited, or experienced as much as I have. Whatever it may be at this point, it’s still in a very primitive form but I have hope that it’s starting to solidify. I need to step back and look at all the images I have taken in the state in the past 2-1/2 months that I have been back. This is the longest I’ve spent here in the past 3 years. The images are beginning to accumulate. I have 6 rolls in my queue of scans and I’ll be getting another 12 back from being processed on friday (lets hope that RIT money comes along VERY soon). I just think that I’m having some difficulty putting a finger on what exactly I am trying to say with these images. What aspects of this place I am showing and what they mean to me. Okay so heres some images.
I’m not sure which of the first two images I like better.
You know, I really do love this state. Between natives of the state though,(at least in our collective age group) there’s a negative connotation about living here. It seem’s as though if you’re still here, you’re not doing anything with your life. The people who were too comfortable to take a risk and move elsewhere. The people who were afraid of change or the “real world.” Honestly, I could just about give a shit. There’s something about being here that makes me feel a little less lost. Maybe it’s the fact that I know it much better than many people who have lived here longer than I… yet I can still find interesting places to go that i’ve never been. It could be the fact that I can get myself home from anywhere in the state. I love that I can go to the beach so quickly and with so many to choose from. Rhode Island is a tourist state. People come here for vacations during the summer. I love living in a place that’s out of season almost 9 months out of the year. I still have so more to explore.
I just need to focus on what about it I want to show. Do I want to do a project on the fact that Rhode Island has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country? Or maybe I want to do a project on the intimate yet fading relationship of the state’s people and the ocean. The death of the fishing industry here? Or maybe I’d like to get specific to a particular area of the state that’s often overlooked or not particularly well traveled. I’m just not sure yet. I just know I need to take all my images and step back and see what I have been photographing so far. What themes keep occurring and what meaning the images have for me.
And God damn, I need a job.
PS. please excuse that these images aren’t exactly…polished. To say I’ve been distracted the past two days by the release of a certain video game would be a understatement.
It's surprisingly easier to explore using a GPS
So my small series of exploratory shooting trips through the North East with Mike Fuchs has come to an end. We explored a good portion of Rhode Island, Province Town/ Cape Cod, Mass, Burlington, VT, and Portsmouth, NH. It was interesting. I’ve lived in the North East all my life and we went to quite a few places i’ve never been. So now Mike is on to see a Mr. Mitch Epstein in both NYC and then Philly and i’m here nursing a bum knee and about 11 rolls of freshly shot images. So of course since I have now ignored the internet for almost 7 days straight nor spent much more time home doing anything other than resting for a new day of photographing, I have to figure out what I could possibly have for show and tell.
Okay I decided…here’s a kickback to 2005, my freshman year of college.
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