But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? – John F. Kennedy, 1962
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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.
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Assignment: The Landscape Revisted
Assignment: The Landscape Revisted
Assigner: Alan Gastelum
Description: I have recently taken a trip with friends to Woodstock and decided to bring my 4×5. I woke up one morning at 5am, loading my film holders, grabbed my tripod, meter and camera; and went out to make a few photographs of the morning landscape.
While sitting in the woods, waiting for the sun to come up a bit further, it all caught up with me, how long it has been since I last sat with a landscape alone and really just took time to appreciate it. I also realized how special the film process is and how it really slows you down, again, to appreciate the act of making a photograph.
The assignment for this month is to revisit the landscape alone and photograph it using a film camera.
Shot with my iPhone 4
This was shot on location at King College in Bristol, TN/VA as part of a demonstration and lecture. Huge thanks to the Photo Club and Theater Department for all their help.
I am so excited to be able to share that I am a winner of the ADC Young Guns competition. There will be a gallery show in New York with an opening on October 13th. I will be there so if you come please say “hi”! It should be really fun.
I will also be speaking at the Apple Store in Santa Monica on November 14th, as a part of the ADC Young Guns series. More info can be found by clicking here.
Click here to see the profiles of all the winners. I am humbled to be in the company of such amazing artists.
And please click the image below for info about the show!
Rise Art wrote a feature about TIAPB. We were featured on Rise Art- check it out here! Check it out here!
Thanks, Rise Art!
Title: Context
Assigner: Travis Commeau
Description: The set of circumstances, ideas or things that surround a concept and give it meaning. How context can twist perception and give something entirely new meaning or significance. Alternatively, how experiencing something without context can misinform, redefine or make alien something formerly familiar or vice versa.
Growing up in a white-bread, middle-class, Chicago suburb didn’t necessarily yield any kind of interesting shenanigans. So whatever kind of action I could get my hands on I was a part of. Mostly just skating… but early on it was all about trespassing on construction sites and/or abandon places. My friends and I would ride our bikes to find whatever kind of danger we could get into at these sacred places. The house pictured here would be a prime target.
this is my friend sophia. she will be getting married in two weeks and then moving to NY.
I will miss her.
When I was little my uncle’s girlfriend owned a farm in Upstate New York. My favorite animals were pigs, and every time we drove up to the farm I would pet and play with this one particular pig. Well one day I searched and searched and this particular pig was nowhere to be found. Later on, we were sitting at the dinner table, and I asked my uncle’s girlfriend where my favorite pig went. She looked down at my plate and said, “You’re eating him”.
Special thanks to Topsy Design for collaborating with me on this photo shoot! And thank you to Sam for assisting, Erica for doing the makeup and being a fabulous model, Adam for being another fabulous model, and Morgan for being a fabulous little model.
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