Finally! You get to see some of the stuff we shot with Arabelle Raphael while she was in town for the FPA’s.
grabbed this shot on set for a cover shoot for @xtra_TO. love these guys. the rest of the shoot will be on your newstands in less than two weeks!
Another set from this weeks Xtra! The folks behind tits&toques, Ailsa and Krystle. Read the article here, or pick it up before the 20th.
Charles Pavia for Xtra! Magazine. Sometimes when you are a photographer for a newspaper you go to photograph people who work in your industry but are not getting photographed because of that work. This was one of those times, and it was awesome! Charles is one of the team over at Judy INC, as well as one of the “it” guys in the party scene here in Tdot. Also, a dream subject. Read the article here or pick up this week’s Xtra! to see the photos in print. There’s a few more in there by us also, so do that.
Next up in the confessions series - DRASKO BOGDANOVIC! we finally got around to shooting one of the video session and grabbed this shot part way through. Drasko is a fellow photographer and video play around with-er. he’s dirtier than we are, so be warned, but check his shit out! www.draskobogdanovic.ca/
video clips/previews coming soon. till then, enjoy some dirty preist goodness.
Our new show opens this Thursday at The Mascot! 1267 Queen St W. 8pm. Jan 17th. rsvp on FB here.
About the Work:
‘the referent always adheres’ -Barthes
what makes a photograph? Some of the greatest brains of the 20th century have spent their best academic years pondering. most photographers don’t care (just like most people don’t care what academics spend their lives pondering, we just live it). we care only that we know it to be something worth pursuing. in the digital era the question becomes further complicated, as one idea of a photograph could mean simply an arragnement of data, pixels, that a computer processes to give us a final visual. it is with that in mind (as well as some help from a funky iOS app named decim8) that we started being interested in this question. and with that ponderance in mind that we created these pieces. are they less a “photograph” than other works of ours? does status as “photograph” require a recognizability of subject? does this hold up when you know that the ‘manipulation’ applied to these was at time much less than that applied to most published ‘photography’. Speaking of the digital era, Google tells us that the colloquial reference of ‘tapestry’ means ‘an intricate combination of things’. which in combination with the words of barthes (one of the aforementioned brains), seems to us to be the most succint idea of the ‘photograph’, or it could just be a good sentence for this show - an intricate combination of things with which the referent always adheres. we’re not academics, sue us.
You know whats an awesome feeling? Walking down a street and seeing your photo on the cover of a magazine every other block or so. No really, stand on the corner of Yonge and Carlton, and just watch the number of people that go past that are either willing or subconciously checking out your photograph. Its nuts!
We shot the most recent cover for FAB Magazine. Which is exciting because we have wanted to for a while. Checking off the ‘want to’ list is stayisfying for us freelancers. Its double exciting as this was their relaunce/rebrand issue. Phil Villeneuve really took charge from his position as editor, and it shows. A streamlined, sleek magazine where form and format count for as much as well realised content. Its refreshing, especially as a photographer to have your photos respected by layout editors who work with your work, not to its detriment. And it is thridly exciting because we got to shoot the hilariously awesome Kids on TV, who are in the process of finishing up a new album. Honestly, cramming that many people into our small apartment has never been so much fun. We adored every second of it, and look forward very much to working with FAB again and again in the future.
So pick up your copy - its free - at your nearest FAB/Xtra! newstand. See our pictures, and read a magazine that its worth your while in supporting.
and since we missed it yesterday here is #30doc day 16. creepy alien @irma_geddon. processed with #vscofilm
