NEW PROJECT | TITLE TBD, ANIMATED LANDSCAPE DETAILS

Since the middle of September 2011 I've been working on a new project in my geometrically decreasing free time. Shooting exclusively with my Leica, at first only around my North Beach/Telegraph Hill neighborhood then slowly working into the Financial District, I've been documenting some of my favorite buildings. These buildings are slowly being pieced together into one landscape. This landscape will become an animated landscape where windows and doors lead to other photographs and animations. Most of the buildings featured I've never been in and I have no idea what the interiors actually consist of. In these rooms I plan to create animated stories, house my photography or showcase additional projects or art I'm working on. I imagine this ongoing project growing and developing over several years and using it to promote and build new work and collaborations with people I've yet to meet or worked with in the past. I'm still very far from finished on the first tier of the project, the landscape of the city but I want to share some of the details in progress.
DETAIL LANDSCAPE, project title TBD
DETAIL LANDSCAPE, project title TBD
DETAIL LANDSCAPE, project title TBD
DETAIL LANDSCAPE, project title TBD

PUBLISHED WORK IN WESTERN CIV MAGAZINE

Work I shot of Greg "Pnut" Galinsky for WESTERN CIV Magazine published this last week. Galinsky and I met in The Lower Haight earlier this year. He brought me downstairs into his studio and gave me a through tour of his work, his background and his process. I was really amazed to see his brush and line work first hand as he cranked out a quick painting for the magazine. Meeting and photographing an artist or an individual in their space is one of my favorite experiences. The environment where people reside or inhabit tells so much about an individual, regardless of their pursuits in the arts or not. Being in the environment where a person explores their creative process reveals their craft in a new light previously hidden from the rest of their art. For a full read of the article please visit WESTERN CIV and enjoy Jason Black's interview.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLORATION

I've been walking around with my Leica camera since I purchased it a few months ago. Having the option to shoot without lugging my heavy fixed lenses and camera body into a public place has changed my commutes. I've been dabbling in candid street photography and pairing part of the inspiration I find from the street with the inspiration I find in my creative pursuits, such as the work I found of RUEBEN B and posted on PHOTOTRANSMISSION. I've always been inspired by the human form and how we interact with our environment. Taking the facial expressions and identities away from the subjects they become more static and part of the scene yet remain a focus point. With a color field masking the expressions the eye is free to move around the scene and notice details without interpreting the actions of the subjects featured.

MLB AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS

Before The Giants won The World Series, I photographed them for Major League Baseball during media day at AT&T Park. My friend Andy hooked me up with MLB's PR department (Thanks Andy!) and I photographed The Giants and The Rangers (the later not pictured due to personal bias for San Francisco) signing a banner to honor friends and family impacted by cancer. The MLB dedicated the first game to cancer research and the Stand Up To Cancer campaign. I shot stills of the players with a video crew doing interviews behind the right field fence. Standing in the presence of Brian Wilson, even before he sealed the win in the last game, was a little intimidating. He's has a very big personality and deserves the "Fear The Beard" rally cry. GO GIANTS! Stand Up To Cancer Campaign © MLB Photos/Brandon Joseph Baker Barry Zito, © MLB Photos/Brandon Joseph Baker Brian Wilson, © MLB Photos/Brandon Joseph Baker Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval, © MLB Photos/Brandon Joseph Baker All photos © MLB Photos/Brandon Joseph Baker and are used by permission from Major League Baseball.

CCCYO HOLIDAY CAMPAIGN

A piece I shot a few weeks ago published around San Francisco today. This campaign piece is 4'x 6' and around the city until Novemeber, possibly longer. I'd like to give a big thank you to Matt Viglione and to Catholic Charities CYO for bringing me in on this and for all the good work they do for San Francisco.CCCYO Holiday Print Campaign

BLUE ANGELS or A CITY UNDER SIEGE

This last weekend during Fleet Week, like many of the residents in my neighborhood, I found a seat for the air show on a rooftop. Inspired by the shear noise and awesome power that comes from jet propulsion I grabbed my camera to document the show. This is how I saw the one hour of rumbling in the sky. Blue Angels Flight Patterns during Fleet Week

SUMMER FOG FROM THE ROOF

I have been shooting some backgrounds to drop behind some head shots I did for a client. It's a strange phenomenon how when you've been watching for something or waiting for something you notice it more often. Like when you get a new pair of black sunglasses only to see the same sunglasses everywhere. None the less, I've been waiting for it to get warm enough to burn the fog off for the background shots but couldn't pass up an opportunity to don my winter coat, hike up the back stairs to the roof to shoot the fog engulfing San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
<sub>looking south east, usually you can see the Transamerica Pyramid

looking north west, usually you can see the Golden Gate Bridge</sub>