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Here are pictures I shot in New York last month; more to follow.

redo bw 729x494 New York City #1

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Jason Polan drawing in NYC 731x494 Jason Polan in NYC

I photographed Jason Polan in New York a few weeks ago, and it looks like he drew me as well. He’s on a mission to draw every person in New York; he also once drew all the people in People.

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Trumpeter Nate Wooley, shot in Brooklyn on October 11th, just before he played a gig with Canada Day. This is for a series I’m doing on imrov musicians. I’ve been loving shooting at night with only available light–challenging but fun. Here his main light is coming from a storefront window. More NYC pictures soon, been (thankfully) working like crazy.

popsicle sculpture Seattle 371x494 Seattle

OK, last Taos picture for a while–here’s the alluring Kristin on her Harley. More about the project in these last two posts, and pictures from last year’s New Mexico trip here.
Kristin Harley Taos Black and Gold 500x333 Film Project in Taos, pt. 3

Insightful and wisecracking Tuk, another lovely Taoseño I shot last week for Black and Gold, a film in progress by Diane Izzo and Marco Zas. Pt. 1 is here.

tuk taos black and gold 500x319 Film Project in Taos, pt. 2

For the last 5 days I’ve been in Taos, shooting stills and video with my friends Diane Izzo and Marco Zas. They’re making a film with the working title Black and Gold. Here’s a picture of Vincente Martinez, one of the fabulous Taoseños we shot. More to follow.
Vincente Martinez Black and Gold 333x500 Film project in Taos, New Mexico

I had an incredibly inspiring workshop last week with the fabulously gifted and imaginative photographer Frank Ockenfels 3. Ockenfels bestowed each of us with a 2′ square silver card and sent us to Home Depot to scrounge together whatever hardware light sources we found interesting. I’m not at liberty to discuss the remaining depraved, bizarre rituals that he inflicted upon us, but l can say that our mantra was “less light” and that the mystical and enigmatic “starting a conversation” incantation was used liberally. All of us attendees got along swimmingly and had a great time over the 3 and a half day class. In the evenings we watched fascinating presentations with great photographers including Douglas Kirkland, Jock Sturges, Ockenfels, Joel Meyerowitz, Kenro Izu, and Ed Kashi. Really illuminating and energizing.

Here are a few photos I shot at the workshop.
Ockenfels 3 workshop 2010 3 352x500 Frank Ockenfels 3 Workshop: Cult of the Silver Card
Ockenfels 3 workshop 2010 2 353x500 Frank Ockenfels 3 Workshop: Cult of the Silver Card
Ockenfels 3 workshop 2010 4 350x500 Frank Ockenfels 3 Workshop: Cult of the Silver Card
Ockenfels 3 workshop 2010 1 500x333 Frank Ockenfels 3 Workshop: Cult of the Silver Card

pacific coast highway 500x333 San Francisco, 11/09

san francisco black camaro 500x343 San Francisco, 11/09

merrils san francisco 500x343 San Francisco, 11/09

san francisco funeral directors parking 500x333 San Francisco, 11/09

hayes valley market 500x345 San Francisco, 11/09

san francisco sleepy street 500x333 San Francisco, 11/09

san francisco asian store 500x333 San Francisco, 11/09

san francisco bus stop 500x336 San Francisco, 11/09

airplane view sunset sky 500x333 View from the airplane

Through the airplane window

2172 Volcanoes National Park panorama

Volcanoes National Park on the big island, Hawaii.

(click on the globe above, then use your mouse to move around; use shift and control keys to zoom in and out)

Probably just a coincidence, but I just noticed that this New York Times blog post from last Friday—on the topic of lost moon landing video—opens with the exact same sentence as my blog post from a couple weeks ago on the same subject (“conspiracy theorists, start your engines”). Anyhow, my delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, it turns out the original Apollo 11 tapes were erased, and the “new” footage from NASA is just a freshly restored version. Monday is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing–here’s a Wired article on NASA’s festivities.


While I was down in McKinney, Texas visiting my dad a few weeks ago, I filmed him photographing me, which you can see above, and one of the portraits, below.

jrbysr The maestro at work

Jim Newberry photographed by James Newberry

newberry 090403 8988 333x500 Los Angeles, California

Jason and Jack

newberry 090405 9331 333x500 San Francisco, California

Wynn Newberry: significant brother

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Billboard: sideview

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Sidewalk

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Mission Street

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Chinatown

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Chinatown

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Shoppers

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Messageless sign

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Faceless sign

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In LA I had the pleasure of catching up my childhood friend Christopher Hoffman, who I hadn’t seen in over 20 years.

newberry 090329 8918 500x333 Holbrook, Arizona

Night of the Chicago expats! In Albuquerque, my pals Diane and Marco (former Chicagoans) introduced me to Andrew and Katie Stone (Katie is from the Chicago area), who graciously put us up. At the Albuquerque venue Launchpad we went to see The Handsome Family, featuring Chicago expats Rennie Sparks,  Brett Sparks, and Steve Dorocke.

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Pre-show dancing

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Diane Izzo

newberry 090328 8788 333x500 Albuquerque, New Mexico

Steve Dorocke

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Andrew and Katie

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Music fans

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Handsome Family

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Marco and Diane

austin trees 8466 500x333 Austin, Texas part 2

faile discovery austin 8331 500x333 Austin, Texas part 2

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austin box 8320 333x500 Austin, Texas part 2