So I got a Holga for my birthday last year and recently developed my first roll. Here are a few. Not sure what I did to mess the first one up, but the second was my favorite from the roll. These are from the Chan Chan ruins in Peru. Can’t wait to shoot more and make my digital Holga lens. They are toned a little in PS from the original prints. Thanks for taking a look.
-steve
So, if you’re reading this…thanks. Obviously put down the blogging awhile ago. Well, in November of last year I spent some time in the Amazonian province of Pando in Bolivia working on a story about land reform. There is a program to resettle people in to the jungle areas on to what are called “Tierras Fiscales”, which essentially means land that belongs to the government. Sara Shahriari and I spent about three weeks in a town called Puerto Rico (Bolivia) with a group of settlers that were living in a tent camp there while they are trying to get land in the jungle.
I posted an edited, more coherent story on my (new) Web site and you can see it here: The Promised Land. These are a few that I like anyway that aren’t in that edit…and may make it in. This was essentially a first trip and my intention was to go back, now, but life has changed a bit and I am back in the U.S. I am hoping to go back to finish up the story though. I think its important and interesting. Thanks for taking a look.
I will posting some more soon.
-steve
So I won a third place award for a sports feature picture in this year’s College Photographer of the Year competition. Lots of threes. Third place, third time I have entered. It reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes when the Olympics Commissioner is talking to the town in the episode where Bart loses the Olympics for Springfield. “People, people, please! You’re forgetting what the Olympics are all about: giving out medals of beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze.” No really, I am proud of myself, but that was the first thing I thought of when I was told I won the award. I might love the Simpsons as much as photography. Check it out:
http://www.cpoy.org/index.php?s=WinningImages&yr=64&c=185#3.0
Richard Sennot, the editor of the “Full Frame” section of the globalpost.com’s website was kind enough to publish an essay of my work from the El Cisne pilgrimage. The first time (so far, hopefully) that its been published other than here on this blog. Check it out if you have a minute.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/full-frame/091111/full-frame-following-the-virgin-el-cisne
