Xtra Magazine cover features (Ottawa. ON)
Rob Watt's 1953 Panhead (California. US)
Ottawa Magazine feature on owner of the Hintonburgh
Public House Summer Baird (Ottawa. ON)
Friday, January 27, 2012
IN THE PRESS.
Last Fall was really busy as I was juggling a wide range of clients from local artists and local businesses to government and corporate entities. In the midst of my bustling schedule, I found myself working on some of my favorite shoots to date. I enjoy most aspects of being a freelance photographer such as the varying schedule, project diversity as well as other daily challenges. Editorial work is among the most gratifying contracts I receive. I enjoy working with magazines because I often have the chance to be creative and add a little of myself to the photo shoots. On site, I have time to crack a couple of jokes and get to know the people I'm photographing, allowing me to develop an interesting portrait for the project in question. Here are some recent publications from the past few months.
Xtra Magazine cover features (Ottawa. ON)
Street Chopper Magazine feature
Rob Watt's 1953 Panhead (California. US)
Canadian Living feature on Alexandra Peach (Canada)
Carleton Alumni Magazine feature on Cindy Stelmackowich (Ottawa. ON)
Ottawa Magazine feature on owner of the Hintonburgh
Public House Summer Baird (Ottawa. ON)
Xtra Magazine cover features (Ottawa. ON)
Rob Watt's 1953 Panhead (California. US)
Ottawa Magazine feature on owner of the Hintonburgh
Public House Summer Baird (Ottawa. ON)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
MY HISTORY, MY PHOTOGRAPHY.
I first photographed Vimy during my Christmas holidays when I needed to get out of the house and had an itch to photograph. The landscape memorial site mesmerized me. I tried to imagine what it would have been like to fight in the rain and mud for long excruciating periods of time. Men, younger than me, were thousands of miles away from home and found their only daily routine was to stay alive. I wasn't about to complain about photographing in -20 degrees weather. I spent half the day walking around and taking photos with my 4x5 and Polaroid Land camera. What fascinated me most was the contrast between what happened nearly a hundred years ago and how today the landscape is organized and beautiful.
When I returned to France this fall for a short visit, I wanted to look deeper into the history of the War. I had studied Canadian History at University, but didn't know much of WWI. I thought a good starting point would be to travel to historical sites that had the most significance for Canadian Military history. I focused most of my attention on research and traveling to various sites. At the moment, I am editing the series and will occasionally share some photos. Here's a photo of my parents in one of the craters near the famous Vimy Ridge Memorial.
Nearing the end of this project, I thought to myself: What's next? My parents had recently relocated to Prince Edward Island and we were spending time in their new home in Evangeline. Previously when my parents lived in Charlottetown, I felt a sort of detachment from PEI, however this year was different. Spending a week in Evangeline mostly visiting family (and enjoying delicious Acadian cuisine!) sparked my interest in the history of the place. This is where this picture comes into play. On my last day, I photographed the beaches as the water iced over. The cold and desolation gave me a sense of discomfort, somewhat familiar to Vimy. Subsequently, I thought about what these beaches meant to me. As a child the beaches were what I loved most, but on this day I thought about the Acadian deportation. I thought about the families that were separated and taken away from their homeland. The initial Deportation took place in 1755 in Port Royal Nova Scotia, but in 1758 three thousand Acadians were also deported from PEI. This project will probably take months to take form before I can begin photographing in PEI. While I’ve started to research some significant landmarks, I still need to read up on historic events surrounding the period.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH.
Before the year ended, I went for lunch with Tony Fouhse. We got talking about what we were working on. Tony updated me on (Live Through This), his project with Stephanie, while I shared some details from my recent trip to Europe where I photographed historical WWI sites. Photo here taken in Flanders Field last September.
Near the end of the meal Tony asked me what I wanted to achieve in the next year. I told him I wanted to add more guts to my photos. I'm not talking about photographing anything gruesome or taking photos for shock for value, I'm interested into creating substance in my images. For me to grow, I need to look at my photos and ask myself "what is this about?"
Tony wrote a blog post recently Of or About that touches this subject. Something that stayed with me was this: "While fotos OF something typically describe a surface and leave it at that, images ABOUT stuff add a layer of flavor (or is that: depth) to those surfaces. They don't answer questions, they ask them."
Stephanie ©Tony Fouhse
I'm also hoping to make this blog about something. I'll spend a little more time sharing works and interviews from inspirational people and artists I find online or in books. Some blog posts will touch on recent personal projects and other posts will relate to my commercial work. (I'll also throw in a couple Acadian post as those seem to be a hoot!).
I'll wrap this up sharing two web links I found interesting. First an interview with Taryn Simon on Nowness. CLICK HERE. Also a great interview on American Suburb X with Robert Frank, one of my favourite photographers of the late 1950's and 1960's. CLICK HERE
Near the end of the meal Tony asked me what I wanted to achieve in the next year. I told him I wanted to add more guts to my photos. I'm not talking about photographing anything gruesome or taking photos for shock for value, I'm interested into creating substance in my images. For me to grow, I need to look at my photos and ask myself "what is this about?"
Tony wrote a blog post recently Of or About that touches this subject. Something that stayed with me was this: "While fotos OF something typically describe a surface and leave it at that, images ABOUT stuff add a layer of flavor (or is that: depth) to those surfaces. They don't answer questions, they ask them."
Stephanie ©Tony Fouhse
I'm also hoping to make this blog about something. I'll spend a little more time sharing works and interviews from inspirational people and artists I find online or in books. Some blog posts will touch on recent personal projects and other posts will relate to my commercial work. (I'll also throw in a couple Acadian post as those seem to be a hoot!).
I'll wrap this up sharing two web links I found interesting. First an interview with Taryn Simon on Nowness. CLICK HERE. Also a great interview on American Suburb X with Robert Frank, one of my favourite photographers of the late 1950's and 1960's. CLICK HERE
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