I was especially excited that this assignment came along for the month in which I was traveling to Ecuador. While there I visited a variety of places, from Mindo, a tiny ecological preserve in the cloud forest (top photo), to the capital city of Quito (bottom photo).

Please visit my tumblr for more photos from the trip.

I recently got to shoot Cold War Kids for the Winter 2011 issue of FMS Magazine (London):

(click here for an outtake of the guys jamming in their rehearsal space)

and Oh Land for the Fashion Issue of 944 Magazine (March 2011):

(here’s a fun snap of Nanna getting touched up on set)

Dead tilapia washed up from the Salton Sea.
Do you know where your food comes from?

Please take a moment to check out a few images from my recently-completed project Everything Falls Into Place, which were featured on the awesome site Icon-ology. The project documents clothing designer Ashton Michael as he prepares and shows his New York Fashion Week debut.

More images can be seen on my blog and website.

I really kind of dreaded doing this assignment, because it’s a huge challenge to see what the camera sees from in front of it. So it was funny to me in retrospect that I chose to do a double exposure – as if a single shot wasn’t bad enough! But in looking at the work of my fellow TIAPB contributors, I really loved Alexa Miller’s fashion work with multiple images, so I had to go where inspiration took me. Here are some of the images that informed my self portrait:

I managed to get out to Venice Beach one recent afternoon. It was foggy and gorgeous and the surfers were taking advantage of the waves.

I spent a few days in the hospital last month, right after this was assigned. Armed with nothing more than a few magazines to keep me entertained (I didn’t expect to be there as long as I was), I took the following shots of my surroundings to keep busy and fight boredom.

[photos ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

To celebrate Earth Day, RRR Project - the brainchild of designer Scott Massey – has released its second edition ezine: StRRRike Two! Andrea LaBarge Mills was invited to contribute and three of her photos appear in the zine. A printed book will follow this summer and is available at art book stores and on the RRR Projects website. Until then, you can download the eco-friendly (and free!) pdf here.

Andrea LaBarge Mills has once again taken the reigns as Photo Editor for Ragged Magazine, a collaboration between our friends at Filter and American Rag clothing (Macy’s). Her shoots for this latest issue include OK Go and Annie Stela.

Download the entire issue for free here.

Since I’m stuck in a Verizon contract and won’t buy a new phone until next month when I can switch to AT&T (yeah, iPhone!), I have a cell phone camera that’s the pits. So I don’t use it much, except for the purpose of sending my husband pictures of our dogs sleeping. So, here’s a shot I took while sitting for my neighbor’s new puppy.

[with the cell]

[with the 5D]

The biggest difference is the light sensitivity. Interestingly, once I pulled out the 5D, I switched into photographer mode and started playing a bit. I guess I’m one of those people who needs a “real camera” in my hands to really turn on. That’s when I noticed Shoup’s cute little frog-leg position while he sleeps:

I’ve been wanting to play around a bit with collaging and digital art. Even though it likely won’t find its way into my portfolio or “work” work, I love having this venue to try new things.

Title: Coupling

Assigner: Alexa

Description: Open to interpretation.

Karl Puchlik
Carl Andre and John McLaughlin

Alexa Miller
Caroline and Forrest

Jennie Warren
Johnny made it with himself

Alan Gastelum
Its like peanut butter and jelly. Like ketchup and mustard…

Brad Wenner
“Keith & Laura”

Ryan Schude

Colin Young-Wolff

Jennifer

Tamar

Blake Sinclair

Andrea LaBarge Mills