It Technicolor... From April and May, some local color from around The City...
Rain Delay with Amber Kourtney
I've known Amber for some years now, and even though I haven't shot with her as much as some other models, regardless of how long it's been since we last collaborated, it usually takes us all of 30 seconds to get into a groove and start making good images. She's fun to work with, energetic, and always brings something to the table...
We decided we were going to attempt to shoot in the rain. How hard could it be, it rains all winter in Northern California right? Queue drought...
The first go round it was literally 68 degrees and sunny. So much for emo weather, but it was a good shoot none the less. We postponed for a bit, mostly due to my talent for breaking bones. After healing up, we gave it another go, this time it rained all day, stopped for the 2 hours that we were shooting, then picked up again later that night and didn't stop for a week.
Third time is a charm apparently. We did this shoot in my backyard late one afternoon. It was absolutely pouring and we had an hour and a half worth of light at best. Things finally seemed to go our way. Then we got drunk and ate stir fry.
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Self Esteem
For whatever reason, while feeling nostalgic I suppose, and sifting through images for the Word On The Street gallery, I started sorting out some of the self portraits I randomly snap from time to time. I've plugged 30 or so of the images into a new gallery, Self Esteem...
#0195_15 - Post Street Studio. San Francisco, 2011.
The gallery goes back about 15 years, I've certainly got a lot less beard (and grey hair) in most of them. See if you can pick out when I got married, my wife started feeding me, and I promptly put on 30 pounds...
#0589_20 - San Francisco, 2017.
#0567_19 - Elevator. Washington, D.C., 2017.
Updates to Portraits, Figures, Etc.
Dumped a bunch of new images in the Portraits, Figures, Et Cetera gallery... a few highlights are posted below. Always looking for new people to shoot, if interested, please reach out...
#0597_06A - Juno, 2018.
#0618_01A - Sarah, 2018.
#0606_07A - Amber, 2018.
"Word On The Street" 2003 - 2018
Started pouring over old work one night serveral weeks ago, ended up completely revamping the gallery of street photographs posted here...
#0001_15 - Mission Street. San Francisco, 2003.
#0511_12A - Amboy, California, 2017.
After sifting through about 15 years worth of scans, I've posted around 120 images comprised of work going back to 2003 in reverse chronological order.
Everything is captioned and numbered, so if anyone is interested in prints, drop me a line with the reference number and I'll knock one out for you...
I'm treating this as a continuous work in progress, I'll be adding more images to it as I go. It's more of a living archive than a coherent piece, so keep an eye on it for new work posted semi-regularly.
#0287_14 - Hornstull Tunnelbana. Stockholm, 2014.
I have to say it's rather satisfying, on a personal level, to see this much work going back 15 years all in one place...
Check out the gallery at http://josephszymanski.com/word-on-the-street/