Clementine Hetherington is an actress + model I met at the beginning of the year as part of a retro horror suspense film project, and we ended up shooting a couple times since then. These are from earlier in October with hmua Julia Fae, and it's a kind of mythic/ angelic theme that I really feel personally connected to....
2019-10-19 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Brittany is actually a coworker of mine at an elementary school who, in conversation, revealed she was the owner of 5 snakes. The rest is history.
2019-10-12 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The second of two Kaila instant film sets this month, these had the fun distinction of incorporating the instax into the shots!
2019-10-05 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Another round of Arizona-by-way-of-Seattle couple Riley and Braden!
2019-10-05 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! I missed doing a Sept update as a lot of stuff was in transition but since there's a lot to look forward to in October, I thought I'd do an early update around the Primordial Creative studio.
There's a lot of travel this month- LA, New Mexico, Portland + Nashville - partly ...
2019-10-03 03:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Adele is a musician/ composer that I saw at an event at a local art center playing drums for an artsy dance troupe - after a few months of following everyone involved on Instagram, I saw Adele posting the kind of selfie stuff a model would do and I hit her up to see if she considered shooting. Fast forward and it turns ...
2019-09-28 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
What can one do with a 4x5 with a wonky shutter? Find out in this episode of Camera Quest!
2019-09-04 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJust got a new job as a special ed teacher in an elementary school for Gilbert Public Schools, the same district I taught high school for last year!
In other times in my life I've actually managed group homes of developmentally disabled clients and did 8 years as a behavioral counselor in a rehab for teens, so it's not ...
2019-08-22 21:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out work I shot with art models using unusual special effects from Revolog, Cinestill and Kono 35mm films!
In the coming months I'll be exploring new ways to have more Patreon-exclusive videos so if you have requests or suggestions let me know!
2019-08-21 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Alina isn't just a person who shows up occasionally in my social media feeds - we're also collaborating on a music project and she's a great friend. She'll be coming back to Phoenix to shoot in 2 weeks and I couldn't be more excited. In the meantime here's an extended chat we did in July! Some of this appear...
2019-08-16 14:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! July is a special month for me because both Maggie and I have birthdays in it, and it’s the first month I’ve planted the flag to not do any traditional kinds of shooting. Of course at this point I’ve been booked by a musician and an aspiring model to do traditional shoots so I guess that’s not exactly w...
2019-07-06 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons!
Welcome to June - a month I arbitrarily would be the end of traditional photography with models for now. I wrote extensively about it on other social media but have clarified it a bit more for myself and others, essentially the cycle of setting up a photo shoot...
2019-06-05 19:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most personal and fun shoots in recent memory- Cheyanne Roxell and her family on a sunny Sunday afternoon!
2019-05-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This course is freely available to any $15+ patrons!
Adobe Audition is an amazing sound editing and mixing suite from the Adobe Creative Cloud; even with a variety of apps including Garageband, ...
2019-05-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! This update is just prior to getting back into the swing of shooting things. I make it sound like it's been a long time but by Thurs it'll be exactly a month which is shorter than most of my hiatuses. People think I can shoot my daughter Maggie whenever I like but it doesn't work like that wit...
2019-05-10 15:58:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons! Around the Primordial Creative compound, things have gotten a little quiet- I got a part time job in an unusual art installation experiences place called Wonderspaces, which besides cutting deeply into the art making time, has given me a...
2019-05-02 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons, time for the April Spotify playlist + update!
In the last week I repainted the large room of our house and injured a nerve in my spine doing the ceiling. It has been very painful and I couldn't do much but lay on my back and listen to music or watch tv. This has led to my first ever trip...
2019-04-10 17:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! I'm about to embark on a Seattle day trip that will likely have 5-6 shoots, certainly more people than I've ever shot in that city in a row. Only one of them being someone I've ever met before, but that person @sailor_marimoon has been an enthusiastic...
2019-03-24 14:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's Spotify playlist, I was thinking hard about melody and songcraft- from M83's "Graveyard Girl" and Beck's "Heart Is A Drum" to Midnight Oil's "Now or Never Land" to a couple Killing Joke tracks- songs that are really enticing and hook-y, avoiding some of the more atmospheric or rhythmic music that I usually fi...
2019-02-07 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
The last 12 months have been a lot of getting rid of things (sister, 2 cars, our beloved elderly dog, all the expensive gear bought for the 2017 studio business, a hundred ceramic masks I had sculpted and years of artwork in closets) and trying to live a simplified life wi...
2018-12-29 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the final $1 Saturday Set! All future sets are at the $5 level, with 2 monthly Instant Film sets at the $15 level. Since this is the last one, I wanted to go out with something unusual.
The question occasionally comes up "why do you photograph only women?" Well, I have shot a ton of guys ove...
2018-12-29 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the final "Weekday Instax" which I've been running for at least 250 entries. Starting next week in 2019, there will be 2 bonus sets for $15+ patrons that focus on instant film- essentially the same amount of content but as 2 sets rather than every weekday, which became really impossible to keep track of. &nbs...
2018-12-28 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Recent work with Alina at a location we saw out the car window that caught her eye!
2018-12-27 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't explain that little red square at the bottom of this, but I like it! Merry Christmas friends! Erin Holmes, shot in Albuquerque sometime in 2017.
2018-12-26 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Have a lovely day friends! Please ignore the phone in my hand- it's the remote control for my new Polaroid OneStep+!
2018-12-25 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ana Corbi, original June 2017, instax version Dec 2018!
2018-12-25 01:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I shot with Carlotta Champagne twice in rapid succession in 2012 - the first was in my backyard, hence the incredibly cheap set pieces of ripped plastic. Carly had a wide variety of wardrobe and accessories and we just played with those, and as I look back on "random prop and wardrobe" themed shoots, I always grimace at...
2018-12-22 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A version of this image is a running candidate for a film poster... I can add no more!
2018-12-21 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Polaroid version of light painting w Mari Moon, in (rainy) daylight at Pike's Market in Seattle using a Polaroid OneStep+. Amazing that anything came out at all!
2018-12-20 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Mari Moon is a model I met in Seattle last week, under the pretext of doing light painting, except we were gonna be outside at Pike's Market and it's not exactly how one does light painting in the traditional dark/ isolated space. This was take #1 shot on my XT-2 and printed on a SP-2 wifi instax printer.
2018-12-19 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
