Caught up

While I've been sleeping on the blog a few things have stacked up lately that I've been meaning to share. Most notably, a couple of weeks ago I was honored to learn that my portrait of nurse Fonza Luke will appear in the 2008 CommArts photo annual. I've always liked flipping through each new CA, and am excited to land my first image in the book, especially for an image which meant something to me. Many thanks also go to Geoffrey Hiller, who has very kindly featured me on today's Verve Photo.

The above clip is from my portrait of Miami emerging rapper Ace Hood that appeared in June's XXL. On a related though sour note, due to a new and insanely shitty contract that they are asking photographers to sign, the Ace shoot was probably my last for the magazine and its sister pubs King and Rides (Harris Publishing) until they strike out the rights-grabbing language in paragraph 4 of said contract. I don't imagine they are worried about losing me as a contributor, but I would deeply encourage every photographer to think very carefully before signing their heinous agreement (which is effectively retroactive in its rights-grabbing back to every job you've ever shot for them). Regardlessly, here is another frame I liked from the gig with Ace, who was a great subject.

And here are a few more loose ends: a portrait of art collector and patroness Ella Fontanals-Cisneros shot for the German magazine Park Avenue, a pre-dawn landscape of my little townhouse community that is a part of a little personal thing I'm working on, and finally a couple of images from my coverage of the '07 Design Miami art fair for Elle Decoration UK (a portrait of photographer turned designer Stuart Haygarth in front of his "Drop Chandelier," and a detail of Mike Meiré's The Farm Project kitchen.)

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Comments (2)

Congrats on inclusion in the CA annual! It's interesting to me that of all the portraits I've seen of yours, it's one of the most simple, straight-forward images that gets included.

I like all the photos here, but am curious about the one made at home. And the perspective in the second photo of Ace Hood makes it look like he was cut out and put on to the background.

Nice work.

Thanks Matt. The win for a very straight-forward portrait is interesting, especially as coming at a time that I'm ramping up some of my production on many of the new assignments I'm doing. I'll try to address the inherent paradox in another post.

Speaking of post, the rapper is def. 1 frame, not cut out and glued. I think if I did slap him on a new background, I'd chose something a bit cooler.

The image of my 'hood is really just the beginning of something new that I'm not ready to talk about. Just exploring.

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