Mr. Ryan Tatar did a nice little write-up for his Autarkic series on Korduroy.tv of some shaping bay photos I took awhile back with my good buddy Marco.
Thanks goes out to Ryan, Cyrus and the K.tv Krew.
Scott Massey and crew have pushed out RRR Project’s second issue today, Earth Day, available now as a pdf and mid-summer as a full printed zine. RRR is a collaborative art zine whose general theme is “Recollect, Reclaim, Recover”.
A few of my photos made it into RRR.002. I’m stoked! Images below:
Secret Forts has posted a killer bunch of archival surfing photos from LIFE mag. go eat it up.
Andrew Paynter makes beautiful photographs, in particular his “working artists” series.
I repeat, this is a google press release, not conjecture. [via DF]
- Joe Klein
Hey, guess who finally has a new portfolio site?! me! www.edfladung.com.
After much toiling, hand-wringing, design, redesign, coding, nail biting and shear rote image processing I’ve finally managed to launch my proper portfolio site. I’m still kicking the tires, so if you see any visual inconsistencies or weird behaviors, hip me up on the burner. Getting the photography galleries together has been particularly time consuming, so instead of waiting even longer, I’ve decided to post the site and update the photo galleries as they become ready.
This site has been a long time in the making. Sometimes working on your own site is the hardest thing a graphic/web designer can do. I started putting together the underlying structure almost a year ago and through various false starts, several different look-and-feels and many various design/photography freelance gigs I finally put my head to the grindstone and knocked it out. And now that it’s done, I’m ready to redesign it! just kidding.
Thank you to all the peoples that have lent a hand, an eye, some code, or just some good comments or feedback to help me get this thing out the door. Very much appreciated.
I look forward to getting back to a semi-normal posting schedule on Quality Peoples. I know I’ve been neglecting yall, but a brother needs to make some cake, nawmean.
Joni Sternbach’s Surfers series is finally out in book form, it’s called SurfLand and is published by Photo Lucida. SurfLand is hardbound, 80 pages, 52 photographs and runs $50:
Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since it’s invention in the 1850s. Spontaneous and unpredictable, the streaks and tonal variations in the finished photographs reflect their hand-made character, the corners rubbed where they were held in the camera.
Posing on rocky outcrops, in front of uprooted trees, or on thick mats of woody flotsam, Sternbach’s surfers inhabit strange landscapes. The best of Sternbach’s photographs convey insistent longing. They are about relationships – the relationship between surfer and board, between human and landscape, between photographer and subject, and between the surfers themselves…she has discovered a new sort of home – a place without walls, defined only by belonging and the physicality of existence.
- Philip Prodger, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum
By the way, Joni Sternbach is a faculty member of the International Center of Photography in NYC and she does one-weekend courses every semester on the tin type collodion process she used to create the images in SurfLand. Check out ICP for more info
Hi, my name is Ed. In my life I've lived in Philly, New York, Wisconsin, Berkeley and Los Angeles. That was then. Now I live in coastal Nayarit Mexico. I've been living here for 6 years now (!). In these pages I write about and photograph my daily experience which includes a lot of surfing and mexican beach town street life. I also post about things I find interesting: art, design, photography, music, tech, etc...
