This is from another shoot for “The Beach After Dark” piece for the June 2011 issue of Baltimore Magazine. The assignment was to shoot the nightlife in Ocean City, Rehoboth, Dewey, Lewes, and Fenwick Beaches. It included a variety of things to do when the sun goes down, covering everything from mini golf and karaoke to clubbing and after hours dining. In an earlier post, I covered The Party Block in Ocean City. Another venue featured on the shot list was Dogfish Head, in Rehoboth, DE.
This self portrait of my grandfather is an 8″x10″ color transparency. Besides thinking that there is just something so inherently cool about this, I’ve done similar types of tests myself- incidental self portraits for the sake of testing lighting, exposure, etc etc. It’s cool to think that we did the same sort of nerdy crap at similar times in our lives, though separated by decades.
What a great assignment! Last month I had the opportunity to photograph one of my best friends from college, Okan Arabacioglu. Okan and I became close friends when we attended MICA together, and this month Baltimore Magazine featured him on the opening page to the UpFront section as an “Artist to Watch”. They heard we were friends, and sent me to shoot him in his Catonsville studio.
This is a little late, but I didn’t get the idea until I saw somebody else do it. 2011 was an awesome year and I thought this was a great way to show it!
Last month I had the pleasure of working with Malia Leary, a fellow MICA graduate who now works at Loyola University as the Assistant Director of Creative Services and Art Director for Loyola Magazine. Malia contacted me to photograph …
Just in time for the holidays, this was shot for an artist profile in Maryland Life Magazine. It features Gary Rosenthal and his Judaica art, particularly the intricate menorahs his studio produces.
From the article by Eileen Francis:
