Photo Play: Instamatic: Jovinna Chan

Here are a two image variations from one of my photo plays "Instamatic" staring Singapore actress Jovinna Chan. "Instamatic" is the story about twin sisters and their journey into the art world. The sisters are illegal refugees who begin their new American life by creating a home in an old abandoned station wagon. The text of the play (like most of my photo plays) are a list of words which describe the emotion, or action. Words like instant, sincere, contorted, automatic, erotic, attitude, physical, melted, devoted confused etc... are presented without order for the actors to interpret. The images seen here have been taken into photoshop, sometimes Warhol creeps into my work, and I just have to go with it until the desire to do so runs dry.

Book Cover Design: Tronik - Wendy Tronrud

Wendy Tronrud explores the extraordinary folds within the realm of contemporary culture, has provided much insight into experimental text, fractal dialogues, and quantum sexuality in film, politics, and story telling. The covers mockups shown here are explorations meant as possible packaging and visual branding for selected texts.

Album Cover: Edison Woods - Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

 

The final cover image was created in collaboration with Carla Ganis.

The Black Sea Hotel: Mexico City Album Cover Variations/Visual Conversation

"The Black Sea Hotel" existed as a conceptual band derived from as online conversations between members in Bulgaria and the U.S.A. The covers show here are an exploration and part of the conversation. Once photographs were sent to me from Sofia I took them i to PhotoShop adding my raw line work and filters to create a hybrid. 

p.s. the model is Bulgarian superstar Polia Alexandrova!!

Poster: Edison Woods: Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

This image is a collaboration featuring drawing, photographs, digital manipulation, text, inspiration, and craft of Carla Gannis, Julia Frodahl, Angela Voulangas and myself. The final work has been printed and folded into the 2003 Edison Woods album "Seven Principals of Leave No Trace" as a limited edition poster. I art directed the project and took the base photo images which I snapped on the frozen shore of the Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn New York (I stood out in the icy air with Wendy Tronrud pointing my camera at the thick white surface of the water for about an hour). Later Carla would put these images through her own singular process before creating the final composition. For some time I thought that Carla had added birds into the left hand side of the image until one day when I looked through the original snaps discovering that what I saw as birds in the poster was actually leaves suspended in the ice covered lake.