http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog documenting photographic journeys and interests Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:15:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't remember when I first saw Chris' work on flickr (his website is here), but I remember how quickly I became a fan of it. I was attracted to his style, but I also found it amazing how prolific and yet very coherent it seemed to me. You've said ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/08/29/interview-with-chris-friel/ July 24 at the Haggarty Museum in Milwaukee - Stephen Shore speaks at 6pm about his exhibition opening that day and continuing until September 28th. Until September 1st Gilbert and Geroge at the Milwaukee Art Museum Related video via Conscientious Until September 15th, Lee Freidlander's work will be at the Minneapolis Institute of ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/07/18/upcoming-art-and-photography-in-the-tri-state-area/ What has digital done new? Make uglier versions of captured light than we could before? Perhaps, but it's lowered the barrier of entry for photography, and I personally think that's a great thing. I wouldn't be here without that. But what I've really been wanting is ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/07/09/new-things-from-digital/ Ben Roberts recently published a promo book via Blurb called One More Night about London's electro-indie scene. I was curious about the project and process and Ben agreed to do an email interview with me about it. First question: did you get your copy of the book yet? Yes. Hardback. Pages ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/06/29/interview-with-ben-roberts/ I've had two photos selected by the juror of this year's PhotoMidwest 7 State Competition, Lisa Hostetler of the Milwaukee Art Museum. I read on Paul Sparks' blog that there were about 520 images submitted and 50 chosen, so I'm happy to be included. There's an opening reception ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/06/27/photomidwest-7-states-competition/ I had two photographs in last year's CoPA exhibit, which was the first year of this annual exhibition. Entry information here. http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/06/11/call-for-submissions-copa-juried-exhibit/ Cara Phillips has a very interesting blog and she's posted two entries filled with scores of women photographers for us to check out.  I like this portrait by Judith Joy Ross. http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/05/03/women-photographers/ One idea the director of the Film Festival had was to do a time lapse of the Orpheum filling up. I did a rough draft of the video and uploaded it to Flickr, which just recently introduced videos. There has been a lot of anti-video sentiment amongst current Flickr users. ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/04/14/events-camera-action/ This year I got the honor of being the Wisconsin Film Festival's official documentarian.  It was a great opportunity, a lot of fun, and a lot of work.  Hauling a tripod and a few bags of gear up and down State Street a half dozen times a day gets a ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/04/09/wisconsin-film-festival/ "I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs."Of course digital photography is essential for economy and for speedy results (news - fashion photography - advertising ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/03/26/some-thoughts-on-digital/ Magnum in Motion has a series of stories from four of their fantastic war photographers. Phillip Gones Griffiths (who just passed away last week) Christopher Anderson Thomas Dworzak Paolo Pellegrin http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/03/23/magnum-in-motion-wars/ Freiderike von Rauch makes very controlled looking photographs. I love the color, or lack thereof. Found at Mrs. Deane. http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/03/18/freiderike-von-rauch/ I find portraits fascinating. I've never really done much of it, but I really love good portrait work. Jörg Colberg has been talking about it for a while and I always enjoy his writing, even when I'm disagreeing with it. He published this portrait of Cat Power ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/03/17/portraiture/ I'm not sure where I first stumbled across Daniel Shea, but I think the first thing of his I saw was from his Removing Mountains project.  It's a great body of work about the coal mining in the Appalachian region.  What's going on there has only recently been shown to ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/03/15/daniel-shea/ I learned about Lilly McElroy from The Year in Pictures.   Lilly has a number of projects up on her site, but the one that is catching our eye right now is called, "I Throw Myself at Men".  And she quite literally throws herself at men and the photos are ... http://www.thechrisproject.com/photoblog/2008/02/25/lilly-mcelroy/