1/31/08

.today is john's birthday.

1/30/08

.today is evan's birthday.

dan heath.

.it's always more fun photographing the same guy again for a different client. it happens all the time. i also seem to always shoot someone next to or once even in the same room at the same time as another photographer. this has even happen twice with the same photographer and subject years apart, i always know the other guy too, if not in person, by name. one magazine even sent me to detroit twice in the same year to shoot the same guy, that was fun, really. i ended doing 6 setups in the same room with the same suit, 3 at a time, months apart, always put to the test. always.

.that's dan heath, i had shot him almost exactly a year before for TIME with his brother in yet another conference room in midtown with no time or budget. this one was at dan's home in NC. i flew there for about 5h and then had a flight home, all the same day, again with no budget, no help, just a couple lights, a rental car and a plane ticket. good times.

pennsylvania.

alcatraz.

i miss view cameras.

.set up camera, set alarm clock, open shutter, fall asleep, close shutter at alarm.
chapel hill - rochester, ny - 1997

.774 9th Ave - NY, NY - 2000 or 2001.

untitled. #2,#7,#12,#9 - 1995(ish).

.the trouble with knowing too many photographers is massive, but this one is actually entertaining. it seems some of my film ended up with someone else's, probably before processing.


.skip ahead 12+ years and an email arrives from john. it seems he had a roll or two mixed in with his that were obviously not suppose to be there and that were obviously mine. throw them in scanner, make down and dirty scans, send them off to me, thank you.

.tennessee. san francisco. interstate 5. san francisco.

wrestling SHUTE.

.2007 was the year of the vision quest.

(vision quest/shute reference see here. a joke really, yet taken as seriously as i do everything else).

.35 tournaments in 232 days. that's a competition every 6.5 days for 7 months. 3200 targets attempted, 2364 broken for 74%. the goal was top 10 at nationals or the krieghoff cup. that was the quest. i wrote about it in the fall, so no real details again, but i fell short, shute kicked my ass and i didn't get the girl.

11th of 166 entries - krieghoff cup, 1 target out after 100
31st of 183 entries - main, 9 targets out after 300


2007 Official NSCA Results
(click images to enlarge)
21 of 23 clubs to date

1/23/08

.i met you 6 years ago today, about 2.5h before i made this picture.

.i made this 5 years ago today, the last page in the last journal i completed. some how in photocopying all the pages of that journal before i gave it away, i neglected to or purposely didn't photocopy these two last pages. i made them on our one year anniversary, i had never been with a woman for a year. if i did happen to copy them, these pages remained buried in one of too many unmarked boxes, even while you were still in my life. this past fall, long after you left and i had forgotten about this page or even if i had a copy of it, i saw the journal and made this copy.

.i made this on january 5, 2007, the last time i ever saw you, it is the last photograph i have made of you. i haven't seen you in over a year and fear i never will again. it's everything i never wanted to happen and worse.

.you are january.

new hampshire 2005.

new hampshire 2007.

the american album.

.book one of three - LONE STAR - formerly red star.
undated - 1995 or 1996 - (a PDF file).

driving.

Heart Gallery Show.

.rodney, christine and i got featured in the documentary video.
.(take a peek).

.rodney and i, liberty science center, nj.

kim.

.kim, with child #1, july 2005.

jodell.

.my grandmother.

heart gallery.

ali - rodney - deshaun

100 Waiting Children - The Heart Gallery of NJ

an effort to find children adoptive parents through portraiture

show opening January 11, 2008
Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ - 6:30PM

Heart Gallery

ali

rodney

deshaun

the event. 2008.

.the event. 2007.

a park. nyc.

salt. window screen.

.9th ave, hell's kitchen / Dr. Reverend John W. Saunders Place, harlem.

vermont.

.put window down, point camera at trees, press button, watch blizzard pop, wait for results.

removed cancer.

2007, 2008, 2007

LM - lighting test.

.the light is what i wanted, but the results were not what i intended.