Nate Turner
Firefighters and Gunslingers
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 [...]
America
So far, I have spent most of the summer driving around and visiting places I never had much desire to visit. I just got back from a three week trip to New Mexico where I spent most of my time riding my bike, drinking and photographing the bazaar people and landscape that makes New Mexico [...]
Across the Country
I left LA as soon as Boston lost in games six. I spent my first day back in Rochester getting my film processed and doing some quick contact scans. Here are a bunch of unedited images from the past three weeks where Graham and I drove from Rochester to Chicago, Nashville, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, [...]
(in progress) Not Currently Titled, Lets Play Dress Up
Over the past few months I have been making these photographs and printing them about 24″ x 30″. Here are some thoughts about the work and some photos of the black and white laser jet prints. They look a little bit better in person, but I still need to find way to get rid of [...]
Machine
This is a video I put together a few months ago using footage I took while in California this past winter. It was meant more as a test to see how I could use sound and video to create and change mood. I have watched Dziga Vertov’s “Man with the movie camera” several times in [...]
In the Studio
My man, Kenny D, is about to put out a mix tape. Earlier this week I did some promotional shots for him in the studio.
passover
I was able to show my Larson photographs to Doug Dubois yesterday. He told me to piss people off and then work back from there. I’m working on it, but in the mean time, I have been photographing the things around me. They may make sense only in their physical relationship to me and that [...]
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 [...]
writing on larson
Over the last few months I have been writing about Larson and the experiences we have had together. Our relationship has gown and changed a lot since I first began photographing him six months ago. I have always been a little skeptical of including a lot of writing with my photographs, but I think that [...]