Posted on
31/01/2012
Back when I was the photographer for H Magazine I started started photographing artists in their studios. The portraits would run each month alongside a short article about the artist and a notice of their upcoming shows. It was always a great deal of fun and usually an interesting challenge. Environmental portraiture is challenging and rewarding in equal parts and over the course of this series I learned a lot about how to visualise a space and use the camera to situate a subject there so that the space both contains and explains them. I also got to hang out with a lot of very interesting people.
I'm happy to say that this project has been revived with help from Dave Kuruc and that we are undertaking a new series of portraits of the city's artists and, hopefully, collecting them all in some sort of formal way such as a book or a gallery show.
After the jump, a selection of some of my artist-in-studio portraits.
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Posted on
20/01/2012
Students of mine, take note: this article in Business Insider was written by the man who serves as General Counsel to the National Press Photographers' Association.
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Posted on
09/12/2011
If you're out looking for Christmas gifts, there are two places in town where you can find prints and posters of mine. My 'Garage Doors of Hamilton' poster (pictured at right) is available at Mixed Media (James & Cannon) and at the James North Studio at 328 James St North. Also at the James North Studio is a collection of framed prints from my series, 'A Very Hamilton Christmas,' photos of the inimitable window displays created by merchants in our city.
Images from the 'Very Hamilton Christmas' series after the jump ...
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Posted on
01/12/2011
There are a lot of things I love about Elizabeth, and the crazy stuff we did last night with three of our kids and a couple friends, inside the storied walls of Whitehern Historic House and Garden, made me remember more than a couple of those lovable things about her. Liz is putting on a Nutcracker-themed programme at Whitehern to coincide with the annual performance of The Nutcracker at Hamilton Place (guests can attend the programme and then walk down the block to attend the ballet). And she, of course, conceived the idea of re-creating the story of the ballet inside Whitehern, using our children, photographing it, and using the photos in her PowerPoint presentation for the programme. Who wouldn't think of that? And it was, perhaps, a bit ambitious. But it was a ton of fun and the images, while not my best work, are at least passable and often quite touching.
Images after the jump.
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