I just returned from a great trip to London (with Apple) and Turkey (on my own dime).
I will be posting a lot of pictures soon from Turkey. Something I didn’t expect, when I was in Istanbul I kept thinking, “this reminds me of Mexico City”. My friend Asli Cavusoglu, who I met in Mexico City but lives in Istanbul has a good blog post on Mexican vs. Turkish pop stars. It can be seen here…
Paranoid by Design
an article in the May 09 issue of Popular Mechanic
by Joe Pappalardo with photographs by Noah Sheldon
I shot the photos for an interesting albeit, horrifying article about a new level 4 bio-safety lab located at Fort Detrick military base.
This lab will do research on the world’s deadliest pathogens like Ebola and Marburg. It looks like a non-descript suburban 3 story office building from the outside, still we were not able to photograph the exterior because of security concerns (it doesn’t even show up on google maps).
These will be the only photographs ever taken of the lab. Once the pathogens are introduced no one but a handful of scientists in space suits will ever enter.
and a video…
A sculpture that Maggie Peng and I made for a group show at D’amelio Terras in New York. The Show included Matthew Barney, Jedediah Caesar, Nicole Cherubini, Jessica Diamond, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Leslie Hewitt, Karen Kilimnik, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Demetrius Oliver, Steven Parrino, Heather Rowe, Sam Samore, Kiki Smith, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Sara VanDerBeek, Sue Williams, Fred Wilson, and Christopher Wool.
While recently in San Francisco on a shoot for Apple (so good! – more to come later…) I took this photo from my hotel window. I have been messing around with Open Zoom, a free open source program by Daniel Gasienica that allows you to export high resolution images from Photoshop to be viewed on the web. If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel you can zoom in and out – if not just hold down the “crtl” when you click and that gives you navigation options.
I took some photos for the United Technologies Annual Report. VSA did an incredible job with this project.
I have a piece in a group show at D’amelio Terras. If you are in New York, stop by and check it out.
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Matthew Barney, Jedediah Caesar, Nicole Cherubini, Jessica Diamond, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Leslie Hewitt, Karen Kilimnik, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Demetrius Oliver, Steven Parrino, Heather Rowe, Sam Samore, Noah Sheldon, Kiki Smith, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Sara VanDerBeek, Sue Williams, Fred Wilson, and Christopher Wool.
February 28 – April 25, 2009
Opening Reception: February 28, 6-8PM
525 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011
t 212 352 9460
f 212 352 9464
gallery@damelioterras.com
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Deborah Bonello’s story for the LA times on my show in Mexico City…
While in Mexico City I was invited to guest teach a photo class of Mark Powell’s at Faro de Oriente. Faro, an art school that’s totally free is located in the middle of a neighborhood called Iztapalapa near Neza. It’s one of the poorest and most troubled areas of Mexico City (1,771,000 inhabitants, 87% of them in extreme poverty).
On the day we were there the surrounding streets were covered in a sprawling market consisting of the pickings from the huge trash dump near by…
Trash on the way to the dump carried by horse and wagon…
Most of Mexico City still relies on garbage pickers — generations of scavengers, many born inside the landfills.
The city has an ambitious new green plan to waste less and recycle more, incorporating those scavengers into the business.
Two interesting articles about Mexico City’s new green plan for garbage…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28777897/
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=848446&lang=eng_news&cate_img=317.jpg&cate_rss=news_Features
For more information about the school Fábrica de Artes y Oficios de Oriente (FARO) go to…
http://www.cultura.df.gob.mx/culturama/secretaria/Recintos/FARO/indexN.html
