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
Mexico City sunsets are so bladeruner-ish. I took this picture from top of the Torre Latinoamericana.
The pollution makes for such dramatic sunsets – bright and dark are all sort of equaled out and colors blaze.
This image looks as if it was heavily photoshoped- it wasn’t at all- it’s just the pollution.
Para su exposición en Yautepec, Sheldon instalará un estudio fotográfico
formal para tomar retratos lo cual le emociona ya que de esta manera
podrá explorar la relación entre el ambienteel fotógrafo y el sujeto.
Inspirado por la obra de 1936 Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia,
de Walker Evans y su ensamblaje de historias individuales y personas
brillantemente capturadas, Sheldon busca realizar un proyecto completo
dentro de Yautepec que será performance, escultura y documento de su tiempo.
Fiesta de Retratos
Jueves, 22 de Enero, 2009. 8PM – 11PM.
Retratos por Cita
Jueves, 22 de Enero – Domingo, 1 de Febrero, 2009.
Opening Reception
Jueves, 5 de Febrero, 2009. 8PM – 11PM.
I was down at Fort Detrick shooting a really interesting story for Popular Mechanic last week.
Will be excited to share it soon but until then I would like to present a titillating picture from my hotel room.
