Category Archives: art

Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study

Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study is a photography project by Igor documenting his early sex life, or lack thereof, growing up in Alexandria.
The project uses Google Maps where each map point has a Polaroid and a description of why that photo location is important. The map points are listed in chronological order and should be [...]

Lens Of Vision and Expression

I came across Sam’s photos on flickr and was real impressed with her project. Sam is an art teacher who spent six weeks in Nicaragua teaching photography to underprivileged kids. She published the children’s work in an online gallery on Flickr, even without the story, it is some great photography. See the Nicaragua [...]

Slideshow: Foster City at Night

I’m finally putting together a series of night photography I did of Foster City. I was printing the shots by hand, actual black and white darkroom work, but I’ve since sold all my equipment, so I need to put together the digital files to be printed. I’m also trying out Soundslides Plus, a program which [...]

Interesting Color Theory

In the image above the two small squares in the middle are the same exact color value. Really. Visually, the box surrounded by the darker background looks lighter, and vicey versey. This is due to an effect called simultaneous contrast.
Interesting to think about when viewing photos within a photo editor such as Aperture, see this [...]

Sugimoto exhibit coming to de Young

Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of my favorite photographers. I’m excited an exhibit of his coming to the de Young museum in San Francisco. The exhibit is a 30-year retrospective on his career, with over 100 photographs. The photo at right is from his theaters series, which he leaves his camera open for the entire [...]