L.A. Contemporary Gallery in Culver City hosted a benefit, one-night only, mixed-media, silent auction on May 17, 2008. The list of artists was impressive: John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Tracey Keilly and Kathleen Buckley on the art side of things. Photo had its own tiny little wall, but a really interesting mix of stuff: Mitch Dobrowner…
Whew! I never get away. Even when i get away, I don’t really get away. Just recovering from a grueling week-long trip to northern California. I was in Sacarmento all weekend, participating in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges state conference. Seminars and workshops for writers, photographers and designers ran for four consecutive days. There…
“Can’t Pay The Rent.” It’s tough out there, so La Pura Vida Gallery has decided to examine “the phenomenon of photographers forced to set up print sales just to pay the rent,” and maybe help a few of us out in the process. I’m hearing 40+ photographers from around the world, should be quite the…
On a lark, I dropped off a hastily compiled photojournalism portfolio of my best shots of 2008 for the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles’ student PJ of the year competition. It was comprised mostly of the work I did on the California wildfires in October. I just found out, via email, that I’m…
A very strange thing this mus-mus is. 100 photographers took a picture at the same time (@600 Internet time) on November 4th, 2008. 75 photographers selected by the organization (including Michael David Murphy, Hin Chua, Zoe Strauss, Roger Ballen and Amy Stein) and 25 photos chosen from a juried submission call. It’s pretty cool being…
New Web site and blog design. Down with my poor excuse for a handmade html site. Launching on the solstice, December 2009.