Andrew Paynter makes beautiful photographs, in particular his “working artists” series.
I repeat, this is a google press release, not conjecture. [via DF]
- Joe Klein
Hey, guess who finally has a new portfolio site?! me! www.edfladung.com.
After much toiling, hand-wringing, design, redesign, coding, nail biting and shear rote image processing I’ve finally managed to launch my proper portfolio site. I’m still kicking the tires, so if you see any visual inconsistencies or weird behaviors, hip me up on the burner. Getting the photography galleries together has been particularly time consuming, so instead of waiting even longer, I’ve decided to post the site and update the photo galleries as they become ready.
This site has been a long time in the making. Sometimes working on your own site is the hardest thing a graphic/web designer can do. I started putting together the underlying structure almost a year ago and through various false starts, several different look-and-feels and many various design/photography freelance gigs I finally put my head to the grindstone and knocked it out. And now that it’s done, I’m ready to redesign it! just kidding.
Thank you to all the peoples that have lent a hand, an eye, some code, or just some good comments or feedback to help me get this thing out the door. Very much appreciated.
I look forward to getting back to a semi-normal posting schedule on Quality Peoples. I know I’ve been neglecting yall, but a brother needs to make some cake, nawmean.
Joni Sternbach’s Surfers series is finally out in book form, it’s called SurfLand and is published by Photo Lucida. SurfLand is hardbound, 80 pages, 52 photographs and runs $50:
Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since it’s invention in the 1850s. Spontaneous and unpredictable, the streaks and tonal variations in the finished photographs reflect their hand-made character, the corners rubbed where they were held in the camera.
Posing on rocky outcrops, in front of uprooted trees, or on thick mats of woody flotsam, Sternbach’s surfers inhabit strange landscapes. The best of Sternbach’s photographs convey insistent longing. They are about relationships – the relationship between surfer and board, between human and landscape, between photographer and subject, and between the surfers themselves…she has discovered a new sort of home – a place without walls, defined only by belonging and the physicality of existence.
- Philip Prodger, Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum
By the way, Joni Sternbach is a faculty member of the International Center of Photography in NYC and she does one-weekend courses every semester on the tin type collodion process she used to create the images in SurfLand. Check out ICP for more info
After a few months of building anticipation Drift Surfing Mag’s North American Edition is now live. Its format is a hybrid of longer, more in depth features and shorter blog articles. The features are full of eye-poppingly large photos, with in dpeth interviews and extended captions. Joe Conway is the editor and he has assembled an impressive team of contributers:
Perspective(s) in Surfing.
Drift Surfing continues and expands upon the work of a modest British magazine started about five years ago. Now exclusively online, the independent North American Edition is an open venue for shared creative output, focusing on what’s happening both in and out of the water. We seek out the perspectives of innovators, instigators, inventors and icons in hopes of gaining a broader perspective on the continually changing culture surrounding surfing. Drift is by, for and about the artists, filmmakers, shapers, activists, musicians, organizers, appreciators and experts looking for something different in today’s surf media.
If you are reading Drift – you are Drift.
Enjoy.
The first four features are impressive!: Portfolio: Joe Curren – Interviewed and written by everyone’s favorite Brazilian Jair Bartoleto, Art of the Matter – Ryan Tatar talks to Art Brewer about his Bunker Spreckels book, Pop Culture Hangover – Ryan Tatar interviews Al Knost, Substituted Blue – Belinda Peterson-Baggs and Dane Peterson go to Indonesia on an aid supply mission.
Oh and I’m contributing to the blog section with writing, photography and interviews, some with a Mexico-specific slant, others without. My first posts are a short series on road-tripping Mexico: On the Road: Mexico’s West Coast, Part 1 and Part 2. I’ve got a ton of good stuff in the pipes. Good stuff in the makings.
Go take a look at Drift Surfing and compliment the staff on a successful launch!
This just in: Jamie at Pnut Luv just posted a good interview with Drift Editor Jon Conway for her “Surf Friday” Series.
Julius Shulman, photographer of modernist architecture, quietly passed away at home last night at the age of 98. One of my inspirations, his body of work is prolific.
Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This blog is my story. In these pages I write about and photograph my daily experience. I also post about things I find interesting: art, design, photography, music, tech, etc...
