New Work

Fashion Story

The images from this shoot were inspired by Craig McDean's spread in February's W Mag.


Very special thanks to Riane McCarthy for her hair and makeup expertise, Elliot Townsend for his creative genius and support, and Carolyn Kapol for ordering the pizza.

Also, a million thanks to the amazing models, Meaghan and Amanda, for their professionalism and their ability to be out in the cold in skimpy clothes and still look amazing.

Studio Fashion Shoot

Our most recent class assignment was to do a studio style fashion shoot. Since this style of shooting is so far out of my comfort zone, I decided to have some fun with it. My inspiration was from the Feb 2009 issue of W, where David Simms photographed a French opera singer.

I really loved the movement and tension so my goal was to recreate it.

The model was the lovely Jocelyn Medina. She's a local jazz singer, and has an album coming out soon, so check her out!

Documenting Fashion

My cousin Maureen, the most fashionable person I know.

Birthday Cards.

This week was rather travel intensive, I took a weekend trip to Montreal via Lynn. Our vacation consisted of eating, watching TLC's wonderful programming (shows such as Little People, Big World, Our Big Fat Family, and specials about kidnapped children and murders), and going out into the city to observe the nightlife. We were hit on by 40 year old men who bought us many drinks, and were astounded by the mass of what appeared to be child prostitutes. It made me happy that the drinking age in the States is 21.

Oddly enough I didn't take any pictures in Montreal. I used it as a total detox which was much needed. It was really great to spend a weekend with old and very dear friends.

I did, however, photograph some more of my parents house, this time including some people in the environments as was suggested to me during a crit last semester. I feel pretty happy with the results.









My personal favorite:

"Look Mummy, no hands.

I'm having to do it all by myself.
Look Mummy, no hands.
I used to dismiss you, and now I just miss you.
How careless we are when we're young..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6njqs1FYyPg

I started this blog with intentions of posting work to it frequently, and that obviously did not go as planned. I've come to this realization about how I work today. I take every photo as if it's going to be displayed or judged. I also realized that this way of thinking is driving me crazy. I need to be producing work just for the sake of doing so. There doesn't have to be an end goal or product in sight. There just needs to be creating.

I'm going to try to post images here once a week. I work better when I have a goal in mind.

So in the vein of that I'm posting a few shots from when I was in Lynn for winter break.

The trip home was a disaster. The train I was supposed to take to Boston was 5 hours late due to weather and I didn't arrive at South Station until 2am. By that time the snow had hit Massachusetts and my mother braved the storm in her SUV to rescue me.

The next morning I woke up to everything covered in snow. We began the familiar routine: searching for matching gloves, looking for warm clothes to wear to help shovel us out. I was the only one excited for this ritual (except my father, who got to try out his new snow blower). When I go home, it's all about comfort. Heading out into the snow with my family to free ourselves from another New England snowstorm was just that. Go figure.

And now, the images: