Received word from curator Marc Prust that I have been chosen to be a part of this year’s FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma, September 23 thru October 24 2010 at the MACRO Testaccio in Rome with the photobook below. The theme of this 9th edition of FotoGrafia is FUTURESPECTIVES, or “Can photography interpret the future?” Stand by for more details.
UPDATE: images sent to Rome for show prep. Tried to get a flight to opening but airfare is waaaay to expensive.
A slightly larger edition of my American Tour photobook now for sale (for the first time I might add) at Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1496756. In softcover, approx. 8″ x 10″. (Was hoping for a smaller size but this is Blurb’s most compact offering.)
A typical midwestern neighborhood with a typical midwestern drinking game outside the garage. Notable for the beer cans one dude threw out the window in front of the house while driving away. I also learned from their ever-increasing speechifying that one of the dudes owns 2 pairs of overalls and that the quarterback from Novi can really run. Quite fast actually. For a dude. Large prints available.
Electricity and natured, balanced for the moment until one strikes out at the other, pulling down power line or burning from lightening strike.
I see from South Woodward Ave. a new spire going up. If you could look around to the side of this construction you’d see that it spans a dozen or so football fields. I mean this is going to be big. HUGE.
On a pole on the way home last night. Royal Oak, MI. Zooming in on full-size image you can see the brush strokes of the painting artist signed “Estelle Janatto 12 70″
On my way back from the grocery in the late afternoon sun. Parked, discarded, as far as it could practically go out of the supermarket lot and far enough from the owner’s home to implicate guilt. Safely nestled now in the pines off Catalpa.
Downtown carnival with a new prize offering: fresh hanging cuts of fury faux lions and tigers. Like fuzzy sides of meat in a butcher’s playland. Or something like that. (Shhh…they’re sleeping…)
Give me liberty or give me poster, each waving to someone else. NYC, 2010.
From a recent trip to NYC. Cigar store window display and all the class it promises from sitting in the sun under smoke haze and dirt crumble. Reminds me of how well (or not) Moonraker has stood the test of time. (And yes I know, that’s not Roger Moore down there under all that filth…)
