Portrait: Clark Richard Nelson

 a few portraits of my dear old friend, the artist Clark Richard Nelson.  September 2012

Constantly in motion

London, Paris, Provence, San Francisco, New Jersey, Hamptons...all in a month.  So much fun and so much travel.  Remember summer, those lazy days, watching the surf roll in?  Yeah, me neither.  I think the next time I will get a lot of rest will be when Malia Obama is elected president.  I hope your fall has been happy and productive.

This is the beach from the north side of Montauk this past August.

Working Life: Lara Kurtzman of Kelacala Q

Last month I photographed my friend Lara Kurtzman for my ongoing series: Working Life. Lara is the lovely lady behind the jewelry line Kelacala Q, which you may have heard about from just about every magazine in the world (Vogue, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, Fader, Lucky and on and on).

Olga Bell

Recently I had the good fortune to photograph the lovely and talented Olga Bell.  She is a singer/musician I think you are going to hear a lot about soon.  

Newburgh, NY 4/17/12

A crane on the Hudson River, at Newburgh, NY, April 17 2012

Updated website

I made some photographs in upstate New York and Connecticut recently and realized they are part of the work I started in Connecticut in 2010, continued in Europe last year and now am back in Connecticut. Sometimes it takes a while to see the threads that connect the dots. Today I updated my website to reflect the larger scope of the project.

Newburgh, NY

Newburgh, NY

Fairfield, CT

New mag: i-D cover

Publishing has been slow, but things are picking up.

Working Life: Abbie Zuidema

I was honored last month to photograph an old friend from RISD for the Working Life project, Abbie Zuidema, a very talented painter.

Working Life: Tamara Magel

Recently I had the pleasure to work with a New York designer named Tamara Magel. So I asked her if she would be a part of my ongoing series about Work.

Working Life WALL OF FAME: David Sedaris

David Sedaris is a gem, but we knew that already. This just confirms it. I sent him a note and asked him if I could photograph him for my project, Working Life, and I got a postcard in the mail the other day in response. I almost fell over I laughed so hard. Thank you Mr. Sedaris

The many faces of my dad

Donald Warfield

Sam at 24

My brother turned 24 last week, which is hard for me to believe. I took the opportunity to do some 4x5 portraits of him in the backyard of our parents house in Connecticut. I have photographed him so much in the past, but now less because, you know, he is 24, and off becoming the amazing person he is and will be. I have no shame in my love of history, both personal and cultural. Photography enhances the marking of time past, shows you how far we have come, and how different or the same we are. I love being able to remember. Especially when the pictures show me this handsome young man...

but in my minds eye I see this...

Working Life: Annemie Bogaerts

I am incredibly fortunate to have been at Obras in Portugal at the same time as Annemie Bogaerts. She is a Dutch artist who makes incredible installations and graphic works. She changed the way I feel about installation based work. I photographed her for my ongoing project about work, called Working Life.

This is Annemie working on an installation at Obras in Evoramonte, Portugal in May 2011.

I love the errors even still

Agh cursed light leaks! I apologize, my sweet horse friend Brancita. Large format camera + blazing sun + moving horse + 4 planes = a few mistakes

Nature Morte: Caméras

Springfield, France

This is a steam cloud rising from the nuclear reactors in Nogent-sur-Seine, France. Am I crazy, I think it is beautiful? Don't answer that.

Tintype cat, July 2008

It takes a while to make a tintype. Prep the glass, set up your picture, get it all ready, pour the solution, run over to camera, get the picture, run back, develop it and pray. I remember John Coffer telling me a cat was not good subject matter for a tintype because you know, cats really listen and obey. This was 2008 at a tintype workshop I took with John and some other really talented folks in Dundee, NY. Except this kitty was my friend and he was ready for his closeup. The fact that the cat is almost off the frame is entirely my fault, that cat was super special. He had many toes and followed me everywhere I went for 3 days. John offered that I could take him with me if I wanted. I was pretty sure he would have been psyched about the constant supply of food, but not about the little Brooklyn apartment compared with 30 acres of fields to mouse.

Tintype of amazing cat in the grass, July 2008Positive print on treated paper of same image

Mount Olivet Cemetary, January 2011

Is there anything more desolate than a cemetery in winter, under a foot of snow? Don't answer that. Yet, those footsteps in the snow are not mine. It was cold. Today is warmer.

Thanks

That's me, the little yellow tree supported and sheltered from the storm by a strong group of friend trees. I give thanks for that and a million other things on Thanksgiving and on most other days as well.

4 chambered heart

This amazing tree is in front of my aunt and uncle's house in New Hampshire. I love this tree. I took lots of pictures up there last week and the results can be seen here.