Plastic Camera Works 2

Here is the press info for the gallery show that I am in:

REBUS WORKS

Plastic CameraWorks 2
Opening Reception:  Friday, February 5, 6-10 p.m.

February 5 through March 27, 2010

Rebus Works is pleased to announce Plastic CameraWorks2 which opens on February 5 with a First Friday reception from 6 – 10 p.m. It will be on view through March 27, 2010.

Plastic CameraWorks was first held in 2008, and like that first exhibition, Plastic CameraWorks 2 features photographs taken by plastic cameras, like the ubiquitous Holga, the Diana, and the fleeting Polaroid. Photographers in this exhibition span the United States, and abroad, from Oakland, California (James Giotta) to Buenos Aires, Argentina (Celeste Romero Canos) to Manila, Philippines (Erick Cusi), to several from New York, one stationed in Iraq, and many others from North Carolina.

Images in this exhibition range from the mixed-media pieces expanding on Polaroid images by Sarah Powers, to the otherworldly Winter, by Darshana Borah (captured by a Blackbird Twin Lens Reflex). There is the documentation of a youthful soapbox race by Jeff Evans, and James Giotta’s intensely colorful Californian cityscape Holga vignettes. With nearly seventy photographs selected, they are too numerous to mention individually, but as a whole, represent the rich span of work captured by contemporary photographers.

Bliss Alexander-Smith 

Marie Arondeau

McGregor Bell
Nicole Bivins 

Darshana Bora 

Todd Brantley 

M.C. Byrne
Celeste Romero Cano 

Erick Cusi 

Lalitree Darnielle
Meghan Day
Margaret Ellington
Jeff Evans
Ron Flory
James Giotta
Eric Giovon
J.M. Golding
John Hagerty
Stephanie Harvey
Christina Hunsicker
Layne Hutchison
Megan Kirschenbaum
Ellen Faircloth McCall
Rich McIsaac
Kreh Mellick
Miranda Maynard
J.T. Moore
C. Gary Moyer
Robert Mueller
Christian Nze
Eben Ostby
Andrew Phillips
Nick Pironio
Meredith Pittman
Sarah Powers
Jim Rohan
Michael Scoggin
Ellie Snow
Francesca Tallone
Elisabeth Vitale
David Walser
Ivy-Noelle Weir
Heather Youngblood

Plastic Camera Works 2

This is show is dedicated to the wonderful world of plastic cameras, and I have a polaroid in it! I hope to go visit as this the first time I am showing some of my work in a legitimate gallery space. If you are near Raleigh, NC on Friday February, 5 visit Rebus Works from 6-10pm come visit!

Sophisticated Pinhole

My wonderful friends Alison and Chris sent me this pinhole camera as an Analogue present! I am SO excited because unknown to them, I have been thinking about how I could print some pinhole shots in cyanotype. This camera took me an hour to assemble, though, pinhole cameras are easy to make out of oatmeal cans, and usually you have to shoot the image directly onto photographic paper. I am not in school or have found cheap access to a lab so I have not played with the idea much, but NOW I can because this pinhole camera can hold film! Will post the results soon.

Analogue Appreciation Day

This is a VERY late post, but feel it is an important one. Because this (last) year I had my first holiday away from the fam, I made my own traditions and celebrated Analogue Appreciation Day on December 25. I never grew up very religious so holidays were always just about spending time with friends and family. This year I did decided to celebrate something that I believed in, analogue. Analogue can mean things to different people, but to me it is not just my favorite way of expressing myself through photography, but a way of living a bit simpler and creates a contrast to life in this digital world. Thus, there should be a day to celebrate this.

These are pics from the day, the tree and new years. More pics are on my flicker of course.
Happy (belated) Analogue Appreciation Day and think about how you could celebrate this next year!