My kind of First Lady

Catch me in tinytinygroupshow #6: simultaneous

A while ago, Kevin Miyazaki e-mailed and asked if I’d be interested in participating in his next tinytinygroupshow. The goal: Take a picture at noon Milwaukee time (ten o’clock in the morning here in California) on Sunday, August 17. I was thrilled to be a part of one of Kevin’s tinytinygroupshows (see them all here), but it was made even better because I was participating with photofriends like Andrew Hetherington, Shawn Records, Allison V. Smith, and Amy Stein. You can see the results here. Thanks, Kevin!

Tribute to Teddy

Collect this: Sexworker with Client I and Shahi Mohalla III

Lucked out and snagged the following two images from Kate Orne at 20x200. Get them here and here.

Copyright © Kate Orne

Copyright © Kate Orne

New site . . . again

No disrespect to all the great Web designers out there, including the two I’ve worked with in the past, but I’ve gotten tired of having to pay someone to make minor updates to my site. My grandma always said if you can read, you can cook, and I figured cooking can’t be that far removed from Web design, so I bought a book (HTML, XHTML & CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, 6th Edition, by Elizabeth Castro), read a couple chapters of it, and designed my own site. I’m really happy with it, and so is my wallet.

Copyright © 2008 Liz Kuball

Paolo Morales

Photographer Paolo Morales got in touch with me last night and offered some suggestions of photographers who photograph their own relationships. He also mentioned his own project, which I find completely charming. It’s called There’s Something about Franny, and, well, I’ll leave it to Paolo to explain what it is. Here’s a bit from his site:

I have a crush on a girl. Her name is Franny. We met in prep school. She is pretty and popular. I am awkward and geeky. We developed a working relationship based on scheduled “photo-dates.” My images chronicle our relationship existing within photographs and the struggle for power between the two players. Portraits idolizing Franny as favorite model and muse compliment self-portraits sitting between fantasy and reality: gazing into each others eyes as we pass in the halls, park photo shoots, and me staring at her in class while she pretends not to notice. It is through these photographs that I want to understand my infatuation and obsession with Franny, a girl I adore and have no idea why.

You can see the project here. My favorites from the series are below.

Copyright © Paolo Morales

Copyright © Paolo Morales

Copyright © Paolo Morales

Peter Kearns

In the comments on my last post, Aline Smithson mentioned the work of Peter Kearns, whom I’d seen in Vewd recently. I spent some more time looking at his work and we exchanged a couple e-mails about projects of this sort. He’s a good guy, and I really dig his work. Check it out.

Here’s some of what he says on his site about the project:

I met Krista on Labor Day at a friend’s Jell-O wrestling party in 2004. It was lime flavored and she was wearing a pink wig. After getting most of the Jell-O out of my hair, we spent the evening drinking, laughing, and flirting. She took me home to her apartment where we shotgunned cans of PBR and listened to old country records. Sometime that evening, probably when she was dancing around in her red cowboy boots while singing along to a Hank Snow record, I fell in love with her.

And here are some of my favorites from his series Krista, about his wife.

Copyright © Peter Kearns

Copyright © Peter Kearns

Copyright © Peter Kearns

Copyright © Peter Kearns

Copyright © Peter Kearns

Photographers who photograph their own relationships

I’m looking to come up with a list (not necessarily exhaustive, but at least a jumping-off point) of photographers who, in their work, explore their own relationship to another person (or people). So, to clarify, not photographers who focus on other people’s relationships to one another, but photographers who focus on their own relationships. Relationship doesn’t necessarily mean “romantic”; it may be a familial relationship or some other type. The key is that the photographer is an active participant in the relationship. The photographer may or may not be in the photographs.

I have some in mind, but I’d like to open this up as a blank slate. Have at it. And thanks!

Jennifer Loeber print sale

Copyright © Jennifer Loeber

Jennifer Loeber is the latest photographer to throw her hat in the ring with a blog-based print sale (here). I think it’s interesting to see different photographers try different models for this. Her print is in an edition of fifteen, and she’s selling for only forty dollars, as opposed to my edition of one hundred for twenty dollars. She’s also taking pre-orders, for only one month, at which point it’s closed. If my image didn’t do it for you, maybe hers will. Go, Jennifer, go!