Borderland: New Work From Estonia
Just before completing a month's residency at CopperLeg Artist Residency in Vaskjala, Estonia, I had an opening for the photographs that I made and printed there. During my month in Estonia I made trips to eastern and southeastern Estonia, close to the Russian border. I was photographing the land and the people's use of it as well as the scars on the land from the abandoned Soviet era buildings.
At CopperLeg, I made a portfolio of silver gelatin prints in their darkroom. Additionally, I exhibited digital prints from both a digital camera and from an iPhone. Below are some of the images.
Borderland
Bodegas Ysios
This is an iPhone capture using a wide angle Moment lens mounted on my phone. The location is Bodega Ysios in Laguardia, Spain, in Rioja. This place has been on my bucket list for years. The architect is Santiago Calatrava of whom I am I big fan. What's cool about the image is that during the conversion from RGB to grayscale, those strange artifacts popped up in the upper corners, For me that's a positive, not a negative.
Drying Fish
Drying fish on the beach In Nazare, Portugal. Shot with an iPhone and a Moment 18mm lens.
Hose Head
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since I lasted posted to my blog. Sometimes, life just has a way of taking over. But have no fear, I've been tirelessly capturing images. Most of my images have been the product of iphones. I've always been a promoter of alternative cameras, starting with plastic Diana cameras in the '70's. In a way, iphones are kind of like old school toy cameras; certainly a lot of the photo apps ape toy camera photography with countless filters, some even named Diana. Go figure. So, as I distill down a year's body of iphoneography, I'll you give one of the early ones; interestingly I was at this location last week, and the nozzle is no longer there, but the hose is, lying almost in the same place.
