Shot with a specially made Kaleidoscope Wormhole lens, this lens can bend light and create some truly amazing photos.
Over the course of the last several years I've attended numerous Burner/Burning Man parties put on by such groups as Kostume Kult, Disorient, and Thunder Gumbo. Sometimes I go just to dance and have a good time with friends, but other times I go to document these events. The results are what you have here, portraits of Burners, in their most excellent attire and outfits.
A series of portraits shot under blacklight at various Kostume Kult and iFeel parties over the past year.
TERMINATING is a project and concept developed by my good friend Ryan Kenney based off of when the T800 Terminator arrives from the future in the Terminator movies. In the vein of things like Planking and Tebowing, Ryan created Terminating. There are 3 rules to Terminate: 1)You must be naked 2)You must be in a ring of fire and 3)You must be in a public place.
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Photos of the city I've shot in the past, both NYC, Boston and a few from Philadelphia. For now these are images shot between 2001 and 2007 or so but I will probably be coming back to the subject matter soon. You can see a lot by just walking around the city and going to new places, which I am beginning to do more.
One snowy afternoon at the Ditmars Blvd. subway stop platform I look over and see the local power plant in full operation. Turns out that this area of Astoria and the adjacent area in the Bronx across the river is called Asthma Alley because of the high percentage of people who have asthma. Breathing that clean city air.
Shot on the rooftop of the local supermarket in Woodside, Queens one snowy night. The atmosphere of the snowy night, plus the lights reflecting off the wet road surface along with the long exposure makes this image.
One summer, the city of NYC decided to make artificial waterfalls at various points along the East River. I think I remember reading that they caused havoc on the natural ecosystem, and thus it lasted only a few months. You can see a waterfall in the distance under the Brooklyn Bridge.
One of the artificially made NYC waterfalls and the Domino Sugar Factory in the background in Brooklyn.
Located in part of Astoria where I used to live, this is a handball court at the local school.
I shot this while on location of a student film at the Brooklyn Navy Yard back in 2003. Great location for industrial photos.
This photo was taken while I was working for free on a music video over at Greenpoint Terminal when it was still a disaster zone.
When you think of NYC, one building come to mind before all others: The Empire State Building. I shot this one in 2004, while on a moving subway, thru the subway window thru the armpit of someone on the subway. Still amazed it came out like this and in focus.
I shot this one afternoon while I was walking along Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. It just gives you that feel that you are either being fenced in or fenced out of midtown.
Back in the Spring of 2001, I went up to Quebec City one day to do some protesting of the FTAA. I got pretty close to the action happening, but I had to hold back a little since I had to take out my contact lenses and was near blind due to the tear gas in the air.
This is one of my earliest photos that I consider worthy of the website, its of the Big Dig up in Boston during my college years. I love the hard shadows and the line composition.
I love the hard afternoon light on the pillars of the US Court House in lower Manhattan.
It took me 6 years to find out what happened in this photo. Over that time I asked other photographers and cinematographers, and anyone else who might know. Then i talked to a gentleman who I hadn't worked with since 2002 and he provided me with the answer. I'll reveal the explanation in a future video at some point.
Shot with a Holga plastic camera, I really love this photo for its simplicity. A train in the distance approaches.
Shot one afternoon while walking in Woodside, Queens, I noticed a series of windows that had been whitewashed. But every single one, had a unique look to it, almost as if each window was done by separate artists. Fascinating.
Starting in July 2005 at a Rainbow Gathering in West Virginia, I started this series focusing on shooting glass, acrylic, or Quartz crystal spheres with different sources of light. The first image is 35mm, but the rest of the series was shot on my Medium Format Bronica 6x6 Square camera.
Shot between 2006 and 2009 while I lived in Woodside, Queens, this is a series of double and triple exposures of airplanes passing over my apartment building.
Between the years of 2002 and 2005, I was looking to create images that were a little different than everyone elses. I still didn't have the money to drop on a digital camera set up, so I used slide film instead. After shooting my slide film, I would then take it to the lab to be processed as a negative film, and not a transparency film. The results were punchier colors, a little more grain which gave it an almost hyper real quality to the images. Along with using my knowledge of exposure, I was able to create some unique images that otherwise would have to be created in photoshop.
A series of photos of people by themselves in their environment. Give yourself a moment of inner reflection as you look at these.