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ANDREW B, lamb in and of itself is not interesting. Lamb worn as a hat is a conversation piece.
…hit post too quickly there. Remember to have the thing sized first. An improperly fitted lamb can cause serious neck discomfort.
ANDREW
Love the energy & exuberance expressed in this series, esp. #1 & #7. They rock! I am always so impressed with shots like these that give such a sense of movement. Wish you could show me how to do it!
HERVE
Your portrait made me fall in love with Tommy!!! Now I want MORE. Never satisfied, that’s me. I’ve seen enough of your work on PBase to know you have a real gift for capturing the essence of people. So why do they all have to be in far-flung places? What’s wrong with just upstairs???
How about a tiny essay to start, like maybe even 5 photos? Show us who this man named Tommy really is. T’would be sweet…
AKAKY
Good work, my friend!! You really got INSIDE and did it. I especially love the interactive shots like #4 & #10. They tell me all I need to know about these folks and how they relate to one another. So when’s your next gig? I mean now that you’ve got a flash, the world’s your oyster!
RAFAL
Just checked out your recent additions to Home Sweet Home and I’m in awe of where you’re going with this work! Ever more intimate, daring, tender, sensual, real and unique. You really are on fire and it shows. What a book this is going to be!!!
Could you please repost the link to Riverside? I couldn’t find it. And I’m so pleased you’ll soon be visiting your wife’s family. Can’t wait to see more Family Ties. It is already wonderful.
CHARLIE
You have REALLY captured these kids and their lives!! Not just the portraits but the street shots of them in action. Can you tell me again where you shot this series? You so obviously managed to gain their trust and that counts for a lot!
Love your work. Always…
CATHY
I was touched by your guts and vision in going inside the house to get the story behind the story in Fiesta. Look forward to December when you’ll have another opportunity to take us INSIDE this world…
Patricia
ALL…
the slide show for Loft workshop 2008 should be up now (under Movies ..my home page) and loads in about 15 secs on my computer..we had it down for awhile trying to get out the flicker, but it is such a big file , i am not sure we can do better..but still trying..
anyway, i do hope you enjoy the show…these students did the impossible to get this work done in just a few days…
most of you know, but not everyone, that this is all original work shot last week..no previous work shot before the workshop was included..
i try to push each student in her/his personal direction…i study the portfolios even before they are accepted into the class….class limited to 12…as soon as possible i spend an hour with each student one on one to get “into their head” and figure out what they really want to “say”….as you can see most are quite conceptual while still following bearing witness modality…
daily critiques of the previous day’s shooting often leave a lot of blood and tears on the floor…while this is definitely a philosophy class as much as a photography class, still we have REAL PRODUCTION in mind…we know at the beginning of the week we will be following the shows of Gene Richards and Bruce Gilden and being seen by the whole city of New York photo world…
do you think there is any pressure??
but, i find that by throwing people in water over their heads, they swim like hell….shit happens….
do they have to be strong.. affirmative.. do they have to be tough?? absolutely… do they have to be more sensitive and open up their hearts more than they have ever done in their lives?? necessarily…
nobody actually shoots for all of the 6 shooting days allowed…theoretically they can, but they stumble..re-think…start over…mucho time is spent researching, thinking, tapping the subconscious, and reaching out into new visual territory by just “letting go” of all that “binds” you..
i want to publicly thank Alex and Rebecca Webb for jamming with us one morning and showing us their new book on Cuba…thanks to Melissa Harris who gave us a personal tour through the Koudelka show at Aperture Gallery..telling us of weeks of work to hang this show….Melissa is the editor of Aperture Magazine and will likely be a juror for EPF…Song from Magnum advertising department told us about the realities of shooting for ad agencies and selling stock..many thanks Song…suffering a serious brain injury while a photographer for the Sacramento Bee and now a NY freelancer, John Trotter came by and showed us his amazing new book on a treatment center for major head trauma..he did it while being inside as a patient…silent room….
my biggest thank you to none other than Michael Courvoisier who really ran this workshop…we lost Marie right before this workshop, so Mike and i had to do everything ourselves…from making coffee and getting the morning bagels to mopping the floor…i like to mop…
anyway, you can see i had help….and why we did not sleep…because day and night and night and day we were shooting, editing, listening to music , discussing directions to move and just flat out busting our collective butts!!!! and when we weren’t doing that, we were seeing a presentation from one of the above or my works..
party??? not until the last night my friends, not until the last night..and by that time, all of the suffering over, and the room quiet and the lights down and a buzz in the crowd from the Gilden/Richards show comes, yes, my student show….so proud ..and can’t believe we actually did it again “against all odds” from where we were even the night before..
show over….credit slides…applause long and sweet….i introduce each photographer to the crowd telling about their story..more applause…warm tears this time…this time blood pumping warm and flushing the faces…hugs, kisses, and ok one more hug….
now, finally, finally..time to PARTY DOWN
cheers, david
Andrew B – thanks. I figured the boy in my shot must have been contemplating global warming and why anyone would want to kill polar bears. And to give us all some hope, he was an amazingly bright and sweet kid, knew all the candidates’ names on both tickets.
Workshop participants – For lack of a better word, WOW. I got home from work, let the dog out, and started to watch the slideshow. I stopped at the second one and poured myself a glass of wine and got comfortable, as I could already tell I’d be watching it more than once. The first time, no sound; the second, with music. Interesting how much more movement I noticed in the frames with the music on. Really beautiful work, gorgeous colors, light, story, impact. Congrats.
Cathy -
Your critique brought back a flood of memories of being in MPW last year. I definitely held up the low end of the curve, I was truly in over my head — but I learned so very much. Painful? Yes. It’s an annual workshop, going on again this very week about an hour and a half away from me. But I’m happy to say tomorrow I’m stealing a vacation day and going to visit — it’s so close, I can’t pass it by. Hard, good memories, and made some good friends. I wish I could do it again, and have the luxury of a week learning to swim in water over my head.
Joan
Patricia,
the Riverside set is part of Marooned, which can be seen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jinju/collections/72157606643568147/
RIVERTING STUFF!!!!!
I haven’t seen the student show, its still downloading, but I mean the rest of this BLOG!
DAH and ALL
I reckon you should just be done with it and sell the blog to FOX… I mean forget FRIENDS and BROTHERS AND SISTERS the DAH BLOG has SOAP written all over it…
Besides there’s your EPF funding issues resolved!
(Hehehehe…just joking mates, no hard feelings OK!)
But truly this is the most fascinating place I know…
ANDREW was it you? I talk to myself all the time BTW, but then I figure I make good conversation!
I think it will be easier if we can just go to one place to look at the work, I keep missing links all the time and I am having BIG issues with my ISP.
AKAKY!
White slavers now was it? Well when you make your first $100 from those photos, I want at least 50%- your gallery can have the other 50…Besides you can write the script for the cinema version of this blog!
PANOS
I think I have fallen in love with you…nothing like a bad boy reformed for me!
MR MURDOCH
If you are reading this what d’ya reckon… I think there is an EMMY in this DAHOG (hehehehe…) production don’t you?
Cheers everyone, you guys are such fun!
DAH – the slide show is amazing. can’t wait to be there on the 3rd and see it live. you should be proud!
I like the suggestion of an on-line therapist. LOVED the comment (just not Panos) – hysterical!
ANDREW – please do not kill me – i know you said you posted your link 3+ times – but yesterday was crazy! can you PLEASE post it again for me….
ALL – you are all amazing!!
HERVE…
omg,you just did not wait long enough.i looked, but had to run….i was going to tell you that you should really get the case with your neighbor..what a story??? can you do this?? that would be something to do an essay or maybe just one picture of this guy..
cheers, david
DAH, beautiful workshop synopsis..
ALL..there is a new post from DAH. a new thread..
So why do they all have to be in far-flung places? What’s wrong with just upstairs???
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Nothing wrong, Patricia. did I say something to the contrary? Maybe my asian galleries on Pbase, but that does not mean I do not shoot here as well…
i was going to tell you that you should really get the case with your neighbor..what a story??? can you do this?? that would be something to do an essay or maybe just one picture of this guy..
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David, you mean Sam, our black neighbour? You know that Tina Turner is his half-sister? He is from tennessee. love Paris, and a regular at Glide memorial (Cecil B. Williams church). One picture? Maybe, how about:
http://www.pbase.com/image/103576695
“That is what this workshop needs, a psychiatrist.”
~ David Allan Harvey
Coming into David’s “At Home Workshop,” I was looking forward to taking a whole week off of my regular life to take fabulous photographs. What I didn’t expect, what I don’t think anyone expected, was that this would also be a week of personal growth.
The following few days were a struggle for all of us in the workshop. Some of our stories fell apart at the seams, some of us had a lot of trouble getting access to the people we hoped to photograph, and some (including myself) just had difficulty getting our narrative to translate photographically. In short, we all had to confront our insecurities in some small or big way. At one point in the week, I felt like we were all in a really bad episode of Project Runway where the contestants feel confident with their point of view, only to find during morning critique that they were off the mark.
Just when most of the class was at its wit’s end, the workshop seemed to take a dramatic turn of events where all of our projects seemed to finally come together. David’s influence and support — we heard a lot of words like patience, intent, zen and even “work it”– helped us realize our projects and an intense week of hard work and stress finally paid off.
Thanks David, for one of the most difficult yet personally and professionally enlightening experiences of my life.
Brian Camarao