Archiving My Photography Class to My Portfolio

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There is a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you finally sit down to gather the pieces of something you made. This week I found myself doing exactly that, pulling my university photography class work into the portfolio section of my website.

It felt less like housekeeping and more like looking back through a window at a version of myself still learning to see. Each frame carried a small memory, the light I chased, the mistakes I kept, the shots I almost deleted and now cannot imagine losing.

Photography has always been about noticing. The class taught me the mechanics, aperture, shutter, the patience of waiting for a moment to arrive, but the real lesson was slower. It was learning to trust what caught my eye and to give those images a place to live once the semester ended.

So the portfolio grows a little today. These photographs are no longer scattered across old drives and forgotten folders. They have a home now, arranged in a way that feels honest to who I was when I took them.

If you wander through the new additions, I hope you see something of what I saw. A striped shadow, a strip of film, a stubborn attempt to hold onto the ordinary. Archiving is really just remembering with better organization, and I am grateful for the chance to do a little of both.

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Photoshoot with an 80s work-out theme on the UWS. In a $1.3M apt. (of which we got to stay the night in a huge. huge. huge. bed)

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Shelf Drink Man Ray

Select work in traditional Darkroom Photography

Inspired by the Photo-Gram effects of Man Ray

This series of 6 prints composed together to offer a surreal effect. Between the light distortions of a tumbler and the direct emulsion negative process the images strike a reminiscent cord of the surrealist movement.

Chelsea Gallery Quick Recap – End of April 2013

Among my activities this weekend I also decided to take a look through the Chelsea galleries. Here is a brief selection of work that I feel are worth a second look; or a first “live look” for you when you go to see them!

Will Kurtz – Another Shit Show @ Mike Weiss Gallery

Elliott Hudley – New Works @ Andrea Rosen Gallery

Charles Fréger – Wilder Mann @ Yossi Milo Gallery

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