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Echoing Themes
“Balloons” and “Old Men Playing Games"
October 4, 2018
I’ve been shooting both film and digital photography for a number of years. Only recently did I discover certain themes in the work I’ve created — work that is often shot years apart. The below duo collection of images spans about four years. Earliest being taken during my trip to China in 2013 and the most recent in Barcelona, 2017.
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My Love for Film
October 2, 2018
Family photo albums. I’m pretty certain this is where my love of film began. As I take notes for this article I leaf through albums and old family photographs. My parents were constantly taking pictures and making books out of them. I love this tangible aspect of photography.
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A Pinhole Summer
September 28, 2018
With my pinhole, everything is harder, more valuable, more thought-provoking. But also, more memorable. This summer I went back to basics to learn about photography. I bought a pinhole camera. When I was a kid my dad bought me a film point-and-shoot.
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Soi Dogs
Of Chiang Mai
September 25, 2018
Half domesticated and half feral, these mutts can be found sauntering narrow alleyways or napping on patches of shady concrete. Their joints are bald and shiny from habitually sitting on hard surfaces. Their coats are matt, sometimes mangy, and always covered by a layer of dust.
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The Gift of Solitude
September 18, 2018
In solitude, I am still. The harmony of life wills me into reflection, mindfulness, creativity. The warm embrace of being alone frees the thoughts to follow no patterns defined by peers. Solitude is my refuge from despair and anxiety. Stubborn, dark feelings fade with the buzz of communal life, easing their grip on my meandering mind.
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Purple Mood
September 14, 2018
She. She has fears, tears, doubts, worries and dreams, wishes, hopes and visions. She will be happy as long as she can paint her world purple.
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Sick and Tired
Film Soup
September 11, 2018
The brew started forming weeks before any chemicals touched the film. Amanda, the model, came down with a virus the day of the shoot. I was a new mother, sleep deprived and sincerely delirious. It was right after the election, everything felt fucked up.
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Calm
Self-Portrait
September 7, 2018
Pictured here is myself, my cat, Rogue, and some gorgeous peonies. Lately, I’ve been drawn to black-and-white film, and flowers. Its timelessness and the way it makes me feel, calm. This image was made with a Leica C-1 camera and Kodak Tri-X 400 35mm film.
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Dwell
And The Self-Portraiture Series
September 4, 2018
In the summer of 2017, I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition that was connected to the one word nobody ever wants to hear: cancer. Following many scans and blood work, a splenectomy, a bone marrow biopsy, and chemotherapy, a year later, and my lymphoma is in remission.
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My Influence
September 1, 2018
My earliest childhood memories are from the Moscow apartment where my mom worked on giant oil paintings as a graduate project for her school. A lot has changed since, and in many ways, neither she nor I are the same persons anymore. Still, the feelings of wonder, being surrounded by the craft that my mom was proud of, take over as I recall the details.
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Tropical Fruits
And Their Secrets
August 21, 2018
I saw my first pineapple bloom under a shade behind a temple in Chiang Dao. Along with its fruiting spiny brothers, it was firmly attached to a thick shoot, stretching upwards three feet from the ground. Having discovered its alluring and unexpected origins sparked an infatuation with finding and photographing the unique, often unknown moments in the life of tropical fruits.
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Rain
In Chiang Mai
August 14, 2018
It’s always warm. The sun is out daily, even in the wet season, and there’s very little wind, except for a few minutes just before the rain. Then, the palm trees and the tall grass underneath bend slightly from soft gusts of air. The dust whirls up from asphalt roads, smudged with dry, red clay.
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From Chiang Mai to Chumphon
Day Three
July 24, 2018
I woke up early next morning in Chumphon to see the sunrise at the beach. In the murky-pre-dawn, I met a man just outside of my hotel. We started chatting; he told me that he rode a bicycle from the north of Thailand.
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150R
Riding Steel Along Northern Thai Roads
July 16, 2018
After twenty minutes of washing, soaping, and wiping, the bike is ready again to be enveloped by the highway dust. During the past year-and-a-half it took me to Lao and Myanmar borders, Pai, Chiang Dao, Buatong Waterfalls, Suthep mountain, and all over Chiang Mai.
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From Chiang Mai to Chumphon
Day Two
July 10, 2018
I arrived in Bangkok early morning after a protracted sixteen-hour journey from Chiang Mai. To kill time, I visited Chulalongkorn University, a short distance away from Bangkok Railway Station. This is the second part of a three-part essay. Part one can be read here.
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Climbing The Furnace
A Day at Chiang Mai’s Famed Crazy Horse Crag
July 2, 2018
He screams; the lactic acid in his extremities is punishing his nervous system, he pushes back. There are only a few moves left. Before long he throws his arm towards the last piece of uneven limestone and clips his final anchor bolts. “Take! ” — Maew tightens the rope and he lets go of the rock.
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Hanoi
2018
June 19, 2018
Hanoi’s architecture, transport, and people comprise an experience that embodies the ridiculous construction sprouts of northern China, the population density of Tokyo, entrepreneurial spirit of New York, and living standards of Southeast Asia. Much of the action happens on the street.
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Isaan, On a Cloud
May 29, 2018
Doi Suthep. Doi Suthep shades a small, northern Thai city from the last hour of tropical sunshine. Once the daylight fades, a single glowing dot remains floating in the void of darkness, marking the spot of the mountain-top temple. I ride up a two-lane strip, filled with twists, turns, dips, and hills.
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FED 5B — a Soviet Rangefinder Review
A Ukranian-Made Cameras of the ‘70s and ‘80s
May 15, 2018
ФЭД 5в is a large, fully-mechanical rangefinder camera with a silk curtain shutter that goes for a bargain.
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The Shaper
May 7, 2018
Tim Stafford is a surfboard shaper. He designs and builds hand-made decks out of his studio in Widemouth Bay. Located on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, the beach and the village are known to offer some of the best waves in the UK and Europe. Within that surfer’s paradise, Tim makes his living by crafting the highly-regarded asymmetrical decks, designed to provide better control in the water by taking advantage of human physiology and liquid dynamics.
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