July 2009 Archives

Joni Stembach captures surfers utilizing 19th century tintype photographic techniques.

URL: http://pem.org/exhibitions/showcase.php#id=surfland&num=1

Excellent piece by James Estrin at the NYTimes.com lens blog, showcasing the stylized photography by Tony Fouhse of crack addicts on a street corner in Ottawa, Canada.

URL: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/showcase-25/

The Fifty Four from richard hernandez on Vimeo.

Richard Hernandez gave himself 54 days to shoot 54 images on his daily ride on the 54 bus in Oakland. Very artistic and cool! It goes to show you, it's not the camera... it's the photographer!

NYTimes.com has a great weekly story featuring local New Yorkers called One in 8 Million. Per the series, "It's a collection of a few of their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions."

The combination of black & white photographs and audio commentary, pulls you into each of their lives.

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html

Titled "Elegance in Shoe Repair" on DailySnapshots.com, I just had to get this shot. I was driving in my car, stopped for a red light, when I saw this classy looking lady repairing shoes. I raised up my camera to take a shot... and all I could see is the back of someone in the viewfinder of the camera. I look up and that someone is standing between the lady and I. I'm waiting and waiting for him to move, mumbling something like, "What's there to see... move out of the way!" I even tried mind control, but of course that didn't work. Then the light turns green.

As I slowly lift my foot off of the brakes, and turn my head to look one last time at the missed photo opportunity, the guy moves on! Maybe the mind control finally worked. As I begin to drive away, with the camera still aimed out of my car window, I blindly fired off three shots.

Fortunately, one shot came out perfect!