I recently built a new website and I'm quite pleased with how everything came out. I'm not quite done with it and there are a number of changes I want to make to its structure and organization. But the hardest initial steps are done and it's great to have something out there that can be shown to people with a good amount of pride.
The hardest part was going through the many years of archives in order to establish some related portfolios; it's an absolutely maddening experience and an important one for any artist. It's a sort of where have I been, where am I now, where does it look like I'm going and where do I actually want to go process. I wish I had done it years ago.
My primary points of focus over the past couple years have been live music and street photography, so those two sections were a given. But how do I make the music section more than just people yelling into a microphone?
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| Shark Week |
Hmm..maybe I'll make a 15 image sub-section for the FireFly Music Festival I covered for BYT last summer. I had a press pass but not the skeleton key photo pass, so no pit access and good performance shots were pretty much out of the question. I instead focused on what it's like to attend the festival as a spectator and had an amazing time.
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| Firefly Music Festival, 2013 |
Next up was 'street' photography. I am based in DC so there is quite a lot of DC material. That's going to need its own section; how do I see my city? But there appeared to be enough from my short spouts of travel in other cities/countries to warrant an out of town section. That's what lead to inTransit.
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| Nicaragua, July 2013 |
I also noticed that there was a large collection of buildings, archetecture, shadow play and graffiti throughout my years of shooting in DC. This eventually turned into District Design. Not 'street' photography in the classic sense, but merely a look at how DC inhabitants design, build, alter, create, and live in the space they call home and interact with on a daily basis. Note;
there are no monuments in this collection or on my site!
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| Urban Sunset |
District Design is also an unconcious documentation of the changing appearance and dynamics of the District. Many of the images that were chosen for this section are of murals or buildings and business that either no longer exist, or are about to be demolished. It's glass high-rise apartments from here on out in some parts of DC. I stay out of the argument over whether that's a good or bad thing.
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| No more Auto Sales |
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| 14th St Dry Cleaning |
There's also a section on the Metro, considering how much time I spend down there it's my most consistent location for photos. This will be a very fluid collection and change quite often. There is always some new stuff coming from my time down in the tube.
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| Wake Up! |