Tuesday evening was spent on assignment shooting LA based singer-songwriter-producer Cameron Mesilow, whose alter ego is the project Glasser. Her music is deeply beautiful, but shooting her personalities was like shooting ten different women – so alive. I can’t remember having so much fun making a portrait. She was a dream to shoot – completely unaware that I was in the room with her. Sorry it is a long edit.
I am working with friends Paul Myers, Greg Cooper and Susan Bloom to put together a tuition-free multimedia workshop this summer for college students and visual journalists who have been laid-off in the past two years. Our goal is to give back: to an industry and to a community that have generous to us. The workshop will be tuition-free for all participants and all the work produced will be donated to the City of Ventura so they can develop an historical document.
We have an amazing group of featured guests who are also donating their time and knowledge to make this possible, including Tom Kennedy, Scott Anger, Pauline Lubens, Dave Labelle, Jim Merithew, Grover Sanschagrin, Myung Chun, Sean Connelley and Katy Newton. This list will continue to grow as we build this opportunity.
For more information please visit the Workshop site at: www.VJWorkshops.org
I am starting a new project dealing with alternative energy – focusing on how we acquire, process, use and deal with energy sources. I want to look at both alternative and traditional sources of energy. For the first set of work I am looking at things around my neighborhood – alternative lifestyles and the oil drilling both nearby and off shore. The images below are from an old refinery near my house, situated next to the Ventura River.
My shoot with writer and actress Alexi Wasser – of the blog iamboycrazy.com – was in the last issue of FADER Magazine.
The Jesusita Fire above Santa Barbara is in its third day. So far 2,700 acres have been destroyed, only 10% of the fire is contained, 75 residences have been destroyed and 13,500 people have been evacuated.
I spent the evening shooting the Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara, which as of midnight has destroyed over 420 acres and forced over 1000 homes to be evacuated.
I shot the LA band Foreign Born on Sunday in Echo Park and had some great tacos to boot.
I am in the process of reorganizing my workflow and integrating my archives with my website and blog and found some images I shot for a story on a bullfighter in Tijuana.
I shot actress & writer Alexi Wasser last week. Her blog, imboycrazy.com is a funny and at times deeply personal look at dating, boys and relationships in general. Her vulnerability as a young woman exploring contemporary relationships for the 20-something crowd and her self-depricating humor create an interesting read.
