Here are pictures I shot in New York last month; more to follow.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Through the airplane window
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.
Jim Newberry photographed by James Newberry
Jason and Jack
Wynn Newberry: significant brother
Billboard: sideview
Sidewalk
Mission Street
Chinatown
Chinatown
Shoppers
Messageless sign
Faceless sign
In LA I had the pleasure of catching up my childhood friend Christopher Hoffman, who I hadn’t seen in over 20 years.
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.
Pre-show dancing
Diane Izzo
Steve Dorocke
Andrew and Katie
Music fans
Handsome Family
Marco and Diane
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