. Kwaku has been photographing Venice Beach, where he lives, for the past decade, and he occasionally exhibits some of those images at his studio on Abbott-Kinney Boulevard. Last fall, for example, he showed his portraits of vintage Volkswagen buses parked in and around his neighborhood. (Below is the invitation, and you can view scenes [...]
. The PhotoShelter blog A Picture’s Worth does great job of explaining the basics of creating an effective photo site, and if you’re in the process—the often hellish process—of making or remaking your own photo website, you really should do yourself a favor and review their posts first. This week, for example, in a post [...]
. At the RESOLVE blog, there’s an excellent post on the benefits of managing your own archive. Actually, not just the benefits of doing so, but the necessity of it. “The new trend seems to be the fully functioning, independent photographer who manages his or her own pictures,” writes photographer Ryan Pyle. Here’s a little [...]
. . There’s a supernice story on Roxanne posted today over at Exclusively Fashion Magazine in which the writer, Rochell “E,” asks the legendary chronicler of the fashion scene about what she seeks in assistant: “I look for someone who is intuitive,” Roxanne tells EFM. “I live a very busy and sometimes hectic life. I [...]
. Matthias recently photographed John Mayer—singer, guitarist, champion dater of famous women—in Mayer’s downtown New York neighborhood (that would be Nolita) for the British music mag Q. But for a while there, it felt like they had entered Runner’s World. “We were chased around by paparazzi,” reports Matthias. “No spot was safe for even 10 [...]
. The opening night last Thursday for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders exhibition “Supermodels of 70s and 80s,” at Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea, was mobbed. And among the crowd were various members of the press, including some Page Sixers from the New York Post… . . As I mentioned last week, the exhibition features portraits Timothy made [...]
. . Have you seen Pop Star on Ice? The movie, which just been released in arthouse theaters after a successful tour of the film festivals, is a portrait of three-time U.S. figure-skating champion and Olympian Johnny Weir—an outsize personality in tight skater’s spandex. Even if you haven’t seen Pop Star, you probably still know [...]
. At his blog, The Year in Pictures, James Danziger writes of a Japanese iPhone app that shows a different photo for every minute of the day. Specifically: “This is Bijin-Tokei – a clock app which shows 1,440 different pictures of girls (one for every minute of the day) each holding a blackboard showing the [...]
Introducing Jason Hindley: Sharp as a tack, sometimes literally
. As Bill and Maureen noted last month in the RESOLVE interview “Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel,” British photographer Jason Hindley has joined the Stockland Martel roster. Here’s the e-blast we sent out last week to spread the word: . . .