I want more than just technical perfection. I want to discover something new each day in my life, something that moves and ignites my interests creatively. With that I wish those embarking on photography to think of ideas being more important than mega pixels or sharpness.
The Works is delighted to announce GIANT STEPS — a photographic showcase and celebration of 14 emerging Los Angeles-based photographers. Featuring works that capture LA and its inhabitants in ways both strange and beautiful, representational and imaginative, GIANT STEPS evokes the heterogeneity of LA's artistic consciousness.
Hosted by DIY-Digital Gallery in Hollywood, GIANT STEPS will open with an artist's reception on Saturday, June 4th with a general viewing from 7-9PM, followed by an after party featuring DJ sets and catering by a selection food trucks.
Participating photographers include: Adam Amengual, Gari Lamar Askew II, A Dola Baroni, Maarten de Boer, Jennifer Broady, Dan Busta, Mark Champion, Huy Doan, Anna Elledge, Martha Galvan, Yuri Hasagawa, Steven Periloux, Ryan Schude, and Nick Walker.
The Works is a creative collective of writers, designers, musicians, photographers and filmmakers.
Salvaterra’s photographs pack a powerful dramatic punch, revealing “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckert, Associate Curator of Photography at The Getty Center. “I've always been fascinated by human psychology,” says Salvaterra. “When most girls were reading Judy Blume, I was reading the DSM. It lists all the psychological disorders and their symptoms. Diagnosis is made on the number of symptoms. And yet, it is easy to go through the list of symptoms for the various disorders and think, ‘that could be me.’ Are we all a little crazy -- at least at certain moments in our lives? Is it nurture vs. nature? Some believe people are either born sane or insane. Others believe we are all born perfect and it's the things that happen in our lives that damage us. I tend to believe the latter. In each portrait, I am looking for that line in each person: the part of ourselves that we tend to hide, the part that scares us, the part that is usually saved for the people closest to us - the ones that know our secrets.”
Filmmaker and artist, Kip Fulbeck, traveled the country photographing individuals and having them hand-write their responses to the question "What are you?" In this multimedia performance, he shares these images and the stories behind them, weaving together spoken word, film, photography, and pop culture to explore multiracial identity, tattoo culture, and contemporary America. Fulbeck is the author of several books including Part Asian, 100% Hapa; Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; and Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids as well as the director of a dozen short films.
Based on Maria Piscopo's 4th edition of her book, The Photographer's Guide to Marketing & Self-Promotion, this program has been updated for today's new client. You probably have found they are harder to find and more difficult to keep! Maria's new marketplace "overview" will give you the information you need to find and keep clients. Her techniques are specific, efficient and cost-effective for every area of photography.
Topics include:
* identifying your direction and updating your marketing message
* dealing better with voice mail
* "no-fail" selling scripts
* using new follow-up techniques to give you a competitive edge
* increasing your awareness of whatclients really want
* improving response to your print and web marketing
* three "keep in touch" ideas to put to work right away.
This workshop will give you an unbeatable edge over your competition. Even experienced professionals will get new ideas!
In 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot 'The Last Sitting', six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn't have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America's Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule.
Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said 'just jumped off the screen'. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.'
Tracing John's experiences and development as a prolific artist, the inspirational exhibit includes photographs from his early years as an art student at Chouinard/Cal Art, which occurred just after he had designed the successful iconic film poster for The Endless Summer. The exhibit also consists of photographs taken by John during his experiences working as a graphic designer at Capitol Records, traveling between Los Angeles and New York in the Art & Entertainment business, and creating art in his popular Los Angeles studio.
PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Come join Behance / AIGA LA and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture & Urban Design for PechaKucha #27: BLINK. Featuring the diversity of graphic design in Los Angeles. 20 images x 20 seconds. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes with 12 presenters.
For her senior thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design, photographer Jill Greenberg created a multimedia presentation called “The Female Object,” a project wherein she argued that the panoptical male gaze has become fully incorporated into female consciousness. Her “End Times” series drew on the raw distress of crying children as a means to illustrate the macabre ethos of fundamentalist Christianity and its impact on domestic and foreign policy alike.
Greenberg’s newest set of photographs, “Glass Ceiling,” features members of the United States Olympic Synchronized Swim Team in the reasonable setting of a pool but with the unreasonable addition of high heels. The images focus on the interrelated themes of femininity, the marketplace and the uncomfortable implications of a world in which the former remains a commodity to be sold within the latter.
Love it or hate it, Olivier Zahm's photographs of women on Purple Diary have become a phenomenon, keeping blog subscriber numbers high and giving everyone an insight into the Purple Magazine founder's personal life. If you're one of the people who love it, you'll be glad to hear that the Parisian editor's point-and-shoot work will be going on show at Leadapron in a show called "The Secrets of Photographing Women".
Open Show is a FREE monthly social mixer and screening event of compelling work by photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers in a high-profile space. The Forge is one of the few, unique, creative work spaces available to the greater Los Angeles area. The studio sits comfortably northeast of downtown L.A, less than a mile from Chinatown.
Elliott loves dogs, beaches, nudists and religion as "interesting photographic topics." Explaining why he has to do books, he says, "I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead."
Renowned multidisciplinary artist - graphic designer and fine art photographer - John Van Hamersveld will exhibit a special collection of his photography at Los Angeles' Perfect Exposure Gallery, opening on Thursday, May 26th.
This exciting collection brings together 34 prints of John's street photography, covering the 22 year period in his life from 1965 to 1987.
This short documentary follows Darren as he ventures out to San Francisco's Lands End to try his giant homemade camera out. It shoots on 14×36-inch negatives! This is the ultimate application of a DIY mind.
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