Found// Michael Wesley

lhewitt — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:50:05 +0000

It’s not often that you come across a series, or style of photographs that makes your heart skip a beat. I don’t know why these images resonate with me so, it may be my current interest in shooting black and white again; it may be my interest in time, and traces, and memory; it may just be that they are astounding in how they’ve been executed and conceived.

Each of these photographs is taken as a single, three year exposure. Using home made pinhole cameras, set up on several corners around the construction site, Wesley was invited to document the construction of the Museum of Modern Art in New York as it renovated and expanded it’s building.

What results is a series of images, titled Open Shutter, that are so detailed, and layered with ghostly traces of the changing environment. You can see the solid masses of the old, unchanging buildings as a sub-layer. You can see the ethereal traces of the sun as it shifts and streaks across the sky. You can see the changing structures coming down and going up in layers. And you can see the evidence of life in the little nicks, specks and blurs that populate the outskirts and substrata of the image.

These photographs are so rich and painterly, like they’ve been drawn with ink, over and over.

9-8-2001 - 7-6-2004 Museum of Modern Art New York

7-8-2001 - 7-6-2004 Museum of Modern Art, New York

[photos via: Photo Slave]

Michael Wesley: www.wesely.org

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not exactly photographic….

lhewitt — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:02:41 +0000

my creative outlets lately have revolved around crafting and in particular knitting. In this cold weather, it is all I feel like doing these days…. and sometimes it is nice to have a break from photography, regroup my thoughts and thinking on my photographic practice, and take more time to look at and read about other photography and photographers, which you don’t always make time for when you’re making pictures yourself.

Here is a big, chunky, soft and cozy herringbone cowl scarf I am working on that I can’t wait to finish so that I can wear it to keep me warm for the rest of winter….

Found {strangers}

lhewitt — Sun, 29 May 2011 07:13:58 +0000

I’ve been adopting strangers I find in antique and op-shops….

My first adoptee is this adorable swimming suit lady.

Look at those bathers! and those little shoes. I wonder what beach she is at. What is her name…

In the same batch of old nitrate negatives I found these ladies:

Are they related to the swimming lady? Where are they? I wonder if they enjoyed their ‘frolick’ in the snow?

I am fascinated by who these people might have been, what the stories are behind the pics… perhaps I will make up my own stories to go with them.

More strangers to follow

PhotoAccess member’s show

lhewitt — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:15:25 +0000

This year’s member’s show at PhotoAccess, ‘Access All Areas’, kicks of this Thursday at 6pm.

These are the two works I have hanging in the show this year:

From my work in progress series ‘Paper Mountains’ {working title}

a drive in the country

lhewitt — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:49:40 +0000

CCP Kodak Salon

lhewitt — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:29:50 +0000

I have two works in this year’s Centre for Contemporary Photography Kodak Salon.

Starring the beautiful Kat and Galahad:

The show opens this Thursday 14th at 6pm. If you’re in Melbourne you should get along

urban grit

lhewitt — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:00:52 +0000

a couple of shots from San Francisco I happened across. I love the urban grain and grit.

and one from Montreal. A hidden laneway…

then there’s this one, from Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, which I love. I love the results from my little old Voightlander rangefinder. It can be hit and miss, but these… with the quality of the film grain, I love!

DOH!-nuts

lhewitt — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:50:28 +0000

Well, it’s been AAAAAAAAAGES since I posted here last…. and as it happens, I’m about to make these delicious gems again!

That’s right… homemade doughnuts. I found this easy peasy recipe, and, my, they looked so delicious I just had to try them!

film goodness

lhewitt — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:11:32 +0000

one of my favourite film frames from the year thus far….

and a couple of others for good measure…..

Floodlight

lhewitt — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:03:50 +0000

PhotoAccess have organised a fund raising print auction on Saturday 5th February to raise money for the QLD flood appeal, Floodlight.

30 photographers have donated prints that will be auctioned off at 4pm on the day. The works will be on show at the Huw Davies Gallery and online from Thurs 3rd Feb prior to the auction. There is a small entry fee, and all proceeds from this and the sales will go to the flood relief fund.

I have donated this print:

'Hudson'

I hope to see some of you there! It will be a good chance to get some beautiful artwork for your walls.