Okay, okay, I admit it…..drool is kinda boring this week.
Not really that difficult to admit because drool tries to
be pretty honest. (Actually, I try to be pretty honest,
even if I’m not drooling…..) And, face it, just like in
photography, or anything else in life, for that matter,
not everything you do can or will be riveting. Fact
of life.
Now, drool gets written over the course of a few days,
usually towards the end of the week. I peck away at
it and hit PUBLISH on Sunday morning. It’s now six
forty-five on a Sunday morning and I’m sitting here
spewing these final (even tho they’re at the beginning
of the post) words. Because I’m loath to publish this
week’s installment as just a list, which it kind of is.
So let me start here by saying something to stir the pot.
If you’re scared and lazy you can’t be a photographer.
Well, actually you can be a photographer, but only a
bad one. Or, at worst, a pretender.
To be clear, I’m not talking here about those who just
love to take fotos, the hobbyists whose love, passion
and industry when it comes to taking pictures I respect,
no matter what they choose to shoot. No, I’m talking
about the growing hoards of people armed with the
newest technology who, in their heads, define them-
selves as “photographers”, but don’t ever really take
pictures. At least not in the sense a “photographer”
would.
Let me tell you: being a photographer requires lots
of industry and desire. If you’re scared and lazy you
can’t be a photographer.
Okay, okay, now to the lists…….
ME (1 of 3)
Openings (especially my own) are not really my favorite
things. I get overwhelmed.
The American States opening was chock-a-block with folks,
coming, looking and staying and talking and going. I had
no time to document the sucker myself but I did manage to
get a hold of some snaps my nephew, Sebastien, took towards
the end of the nite…..
And here are some pix of the installation…..
ME (2 OF 3)
There was some press about the show, as well. Some in print
and some online…..
Peter Simpson wrote a swell article in The Ottawa Citizen. Lots
of stories in this story….
And here’s the shot of me and Gus that they ran in the print
version, but is missing from the online thing…..
© Peter Simpson
Guerilla Magazine ran a short interview on their blog….
Local fotog Clay De Voute wrote this….
ME (3 of 3)
And now that American States is up and running, it’s time to start
work on my next show.
USER opens at PIKTO, in Toronto, in exactly 2 months. A feature
show at the CONTACT foto festival……
OTHERS
Of course American States isn’t the only foto thing to see here.
Ottawa is full of fotos these days….
Exploded View, a group show at The Ottawa Art Gallery, is most
interesting. It’ll probably be one of the highlites of the spring
season here. Included are closeup fotos, by Diana Thorneycroft,
of dolls mouths….
At The Red Wall Gallery, Magida El Kassis is showing a typology
of people of “pure race”….
Gallery 101 is showing a series of strident images from occupied
Palestine by Rehab Nazzal
And Olga Chagaoutdinova is showing her latest fotos, along with
some videos, at Patrick Mikhail Gallery….
