Category: Books
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In September of 2017, on the cusp of my fortieth birthday, I set a new decade resolution to spend more time with my ninety-three year old grandfather. As a documentary photographer, with an interest in communities, I asked my grandfather if he’d like to do a portrait and interview project in his retirement community. My…
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I just submitted the final edits for the Banh Mi Handbook, a lovely book project I photographed last September for the wonderful folks at 10 Speed Press. As Andrea Nguyen, the animated author and chef extraordinaire, said in this fun blog post about our photo shoot (which includes behind the scenes photos,) photographing a cook book…
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When I was working on photo shoot yesterday, for an exciting new book with Lila B, I met another photographer who asked me what I photograph. My quick reply, as I was standing behind my tripod with my camera pointing at an arrangement of flowers,”I photograph people.” Photographer man: look of awkward confusion. My addendum,…
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When I pick up a book or a magazine with lots of photos, I usually open it up at the end and flip the pages backwards until I end up at the beginning of the book. While not conducive for reading novels, this dyslexic behavior is a handy tool to have because that is how…
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I attended a natural dye workshop in Missouri with Rebecca Burgess, for her book on natural dyes. While the landscape and the plants were definitely pretty… …I often found myself distracted by the other people in the workshop. I know that these portraits will not make it in this book, but maybe the next book…
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Nature created amazing plants. Rebecca Burgess dyed wool into cool colors… with the amazing plants that nature created. Heidi Iverson designed patterns and knit fun gloves and a blanket… with the wool that Rebecca Burgess dyed into cool colors… from the amazing plants that nature created. Beautiful ladies and cute children modeled the fun gloves…
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Here it is… the chosen one. My first photo on a book cover published by a real publishing house (unlike my self-published book.) This is the rough draft of their design. The photo is enlarged and the rest of it wraps around the book jacket… with some of my other photos on the back. I…
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This is Sandra Gowan, the town clerk, and Mayor Gene Snow. And in Reidville, the fight is on and they are begrudgingly leading the fight because the fight involves the “Z” word…..zoning. Reidville as it has been known for over 200 years is on the brink of being swallowed by subdivisions. Countryside lost. People are…
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Tim Brady is the Assistant Chief of the Reidville Fire Department. His wife Dolly makes missiles for the military. The lab Buddy retrieves doves when Tim takes him hunting and the chihuahua Hunter barks, at everything.
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 