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LOST HILLS: on the walls & online at WALLSPACE
The lovely Crista Dix and Ann Jastrab have collaborated to on “Beautiful My Desire,” the 2013 version of WALLSPACE GALLERY’s ongoing “New Directions” series. New Directions 2013 presents emerging and mid-career artists in WALLSPACE’s Santa Barbara and Seattle galleries, and features those same artists online.
The show opened on Friday Jan 4th in Santa Barbara — I was there — and humbled to have my work featured among such a strong group of photographs.
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Check out Jessie Cowan and her son Wyatt photographed in September at 31 at 31.com
Also: last year’s portrait of mother and son.
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31at31: Erica Oyama on 9/20/12
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31at31: Whitney Anderson on 9/14/12
Welcome to the first “31 at 31” post of the new year. Each day of January 2013 I’ll be putting up one brand-new photo from the fourth year of “28 at 28,” the ongoing portrait project following my peers.
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Rio de Janeiro for Airbnb.com — what an experience! Eleven days of walking the city’s neighborhoods, making photos everywhere I went.
I felt that I was in a good space for street photography for the first time in a long time: just looking carefully, staying present in the moment, searching out interactions, and making my own luck.
Much more to come at Airbnb.com.
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Honored that Resource magazine’s Adam Sherwin and Aurelie Jezequel featured my work alongside that of talented photographers Jeremy and Claire Weiss and Ture Lillegraven in the fall edition of the magazine. And yes, that’s my photo of GWAR’s Oderus Urungus (from a 2009 shoot for AOL Music) on the cover!
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…and the interior spread featuring me as “Photographer of the Week 5-30-2012” in the Fall 2012 Resource magazine…
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![Aline Smithson of Lenscratch, the fabulous photography blog, has included me in her selection as part of “[DOT]COM,” a show at this year’s Guate Photo: Guatemala City Photo Festival.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbcdtzda3I1qzqvl7o1_1280.jpg "http://samcomen.tumblr.com/post/32838211854/aline-smithson-of-lenscratch-the-fabulous")
Aline Smithson of Lenscratch, the fabulous photography blog, has included me in her selection as part of “[DOT]COM,” a show at this year’s Guate Photo: Guatemala City Photo Festival.
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The outpouring of excitement, support, and promises of future participation from the people I met at the Central Ave Jazz Festival highlighted for me a need Central Avenue: A Community Album addresses. That is, to document this historically significant locale right now, as one generation grows old, and their (potentially illuminating) personal archives are in danger of being lost forever.
I produced the Jazzfest “Cube,” pictured above, from billboard vinyl panels stretched over a 12’ square steel frame. 200 of the best images collected from the community in March and April of this year and about 20 of my own new photos from the same period were on display.
See the entire Central Avenue: A Community Album archive here.
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It’s ALIVE!
The entire archive from CENTRAL AVENUE: A COMMUNITY ALBUM Is now online. Check out the endless scroll* of archival family album photos collected from neighborhood residents and my new photos as well.
*not actually endless. but there are many beautiful photos to see
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:-) in progress. At Sunset and the 101. #distracteddriving (Taken with Instagram)
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The results of the night shoot, in daylight. “L.O.L.” Don’t text and drive. (Taken with Instagram)
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INsightful ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL AVENUE ALBUM
ARTBOUND: SKID ROW AND CENTRAL AVENUE’S CULTURE-BASED ACTIVISM
from the piece: “…It was a bit like what Dorothea Lange and the old WPA photographers were up to, melding art and conscience in the name of the truth — but way more joyful. And in the end, it wasn’t just skeptical art-types [Comen] turned into believers, but perhaps more importantly, the people that live there.”
Brilliant critic Shana Nys Dambrot (@shananys) wrote this piece for KCET’s Artbound. The the more Tumblr SHARES via the site, the more FB “LIKES” via the site, the more chance this written piece has to be chosen to become a TV broadcast piece on the stellar PBS station.
PLEASE REBLOG AND LIKE DIRECTLY FROM THE SITE. MY THANKS!
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a solid interview with me in RESOURCE MAGAZINE
Hellooo, internet. Resource Magazine has 10K ‘likes’ on Facebook, and they’re featuring my work on their home page right now. As a result of me being ‘liked’ on facebook 200 times in a day. Does that mean all those 10K people out there are going to see my work? And that of the ones that see it, a few will click through to my site? And out of those, a few will stay on the site and click through my photos? That would be utterly fantastic. I’ll post again to advise how that goes.
But, social media aside, I’m thrilled to be featured. I think the reporter, Jeffrey Zusclag, asked some great questions and crafted an interview I’m proud of. I think it accurately conveys my conversational tone, and my thoughts on a handful of photo-related topics.
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