One of my entries for this year's BLUE exhibit was juried into the show! BLUE is Cambridge Art Association's annual open competition (it rotates with RED every other year).
The accepted piece is Windshield and Hillside in Infrared Light, Cleator, AZ.
It's a view from within an abandoned pick-up truck looking out onto a ghost town in one of my favorite parts of the world, the American Southwest.
There's something wonderful about the Southwest. The climate preserves old, discarded objects. The light has a delicate, beautiful quality that makes just about everything look better. And, of course, there are the bullet holes.
I don't know if someone just wanted to make sure that this pickup was really dead or what, but I'm glad they did.
I hope you'll join me at the BLUE reception. Details are available on the FaceBook page for Andrew Child Photography. You don't need a FaceBook account to view the invitation. If you do have one, though, send me a friend request!
The annual ArtSpace Open Studios are October 4th and 5th this year. I hope you'll drop by my basement studio (20-S) and check-out some of the pieces from my recent exhibition of infrared photography. I may also have a few new prints, including shots of a shipwreck at Newcombe Hollow on Cape Cod.
Here are the details:
Date / Time: October 4 & 5, 12 pm - 5 pm Location:ArtSpace Maynard, 63 Summer Street, Maynard, MA Directions:Available on Google Maps
The MS Challenge Walk was last weekend. Beautiful - but rainy - Cape Cod for fifty miles over three days. I photographed the event for the sixth consecutive year and, as always, had a wonderful time. I've tried something new this year and posted three albums to my Facebook page:
Friday - Hyannis to the Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster Saturday - Cape Cod Rail Trail Sunday - Sea Camps to Nathanial Wixon School
You don't need a Facebook account to view the albums. If you have one, though, send me a friend invite!
So if I was a kid again and had one of those what-I-did-during-my-Summer essays, it would go something like this...
I spent a week in Rockport, ME at the Maine Media Workshops taking Joyce Tenneson's workshop on creating photographic books.
Joyce Tenneson is one of my all-time favorite photographers. She describes her work as beauty photography, but that's sort of like describing what Michael Phelps does as swimming quickly. I've been interested in taking one of her workshops for years and jumped at the chance this summer when a workshop came along at a time that fit into my schedule.
Joyce Tenneson, courtesy of Enid Bloch
The workshop was a hands-on week of learning, doing, eating and trying to sleep a little. Here's a photograph of me in front of my laptop by fellow student Enid Bloch.
the author by Enid Bloch
Enid caught me in a rare moment when I wasn't staring into the screen bleary-eyed. I credit three travel mugs worth of coffee and Enid's photographic expertise with my apparent alertness.
crit session courtesy of Don Albrecht
The week culminated in crit sessions of book mock-ups that we created in class. I'll probably have more to say more about that in a future post.
Friends have asked me what I thought of scenic Rockport, Maine. I'm guessing it's pretty nice but, to be honest, didn't see much of it except the classroom where we met every day. I did manage to sneak out for a couple of early-morning walks, though, and saw...
I am delighted to announce a solo exhibition of my color infrared photography now hanging at the Acton Memorial Library through August 28th.
Spanish Horse Farm
This exhibition includes several full-color, infrared panoramas on display to the public for the first time as well as a number of photographs taken locally (Acton, Stow, Concord, Harvard and Boston).
A reception will be held at the library in two weeks:
Date: Wednesday, July 30 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Acton Memorial Library, 486 Main St. (Rte. 27) in Acton, MA
The floor is littered with scraps of foam board, mat board, and bits of canvas strips. The safety goggles are out, sectional frames are – well – sectional still, and the music's cranked to loud.
I am a freelance photographer based in suburban Boston. My specialty is environmental portraiture – small windows that I open into the lives of my subjects.
Much of my work involves individuals with special needs. I have a low-key, unobtrusive approach combined with a sense of respect for every person I photograph. The body of work that has emerged includes a traveling exhibit, Faces and Voices of Autism.
I also have a fine art niche in color, infrared photography and panoramas.
