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Yearly Archives: 2010
ChatterRecipe of the Month June 2010
ChatterLog June 2010
Greetings everyone, and welcome to the June ChatterBulletin! We have traveled from the inspirational “I Am” of April’s Aries, to the possessive “I Have” of May’s Taurus, and now we move into the incessant “I Think” of Gemini in June. And if you know anyone who is a Gemini, it is true – their brains literally have no “off-switch.” They go to sleep thinking and they wake up thinking, and the computer inside of their head is permanently “on.”
Jason Florio – ChatterCorner June 2010
Be sure to check out my 2nd article for PhotoServe’s Surveillance section. This month we featured photographer, friend & fellow Brit, Jason Florio who last year with his girlfriend and partner Helen Jones, walked around the entire country of The Gambia in West Africa. It’s a great story and a fun read. So click on this link to read the article: Jason Florio May2010
To visit Jason’s wife Helen’s blog about their trip please click here!
ChatterArtists June 2010
Continuing on with the theme of “twins” and “pairs” I thought it would be fun this month to feature photographers who work together as a duo. It was interesting just how many couples I do know that work together, some purely as a business partnership, while others are life partners and/or married as well. And to further demonstrate the duality, the mutability and the indecision of Gemini, we are showing 2 image selections per couple this month!
Katvan Studios
First up we have Moshe & Rivka Katvan, known collectively as Katvan Studios. These two met whilst attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City and have been partners in both life and photography ever since. On their website they describe themselves as the “Yin & Yang” of the studio, with each one’s unique skills combining to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Moshe is a Virgo, and as a natural “perfectionist” shoots all of the still life, and Rivka, a Taurus, is drawn to shoot beautiful fine art, and both being “earth” signs they also demonstrate their harmony when collaborating on the people shoots.. I will also be writing my next ChatterCorner article for the Surveillance section of PhotoServe on these two, so watch out for that next month.
As soon as I saw this image from Rivka called “The French Sisters” I simply fell in love with it, and even better, it perfectly suited our theme for this month!
ChatterTip of the Month May 2010
ChatterRecipe of the Month May 2010
Callie Lipkin – ChatterCorner May 2010
I am very excited to announce that I will now be writing each month for the “Surveillance” section on PDN’s PhotoServe website. The first article went live at the end of April and is an interview with my client and Chicago-based photographer Callie Lipkin who, when she is not shooting her light and lively advertising lifestyle work, is photographing her passion and personal project on Burlesque. Click on this link to read the full article: Callie Lipkin April2010
ChatterArtists May 2010
Continuing on with the theme of Possessions it was only natural this month to feature photographers who shoot still life, product and all of those beautiful objects that Taurus loves. However, still life photographers don’t always get to shoot beautiful arrangements of fabulous objects. Sometimes they have the unique challenge of making something quite ordinary and mundane look appealing and inviting.
ChatterLog May 2010
Greetings everyone, and welcome to the May ChatterBulletin! We have now moved from the sign of Aries into Taurus, so it is no big surprise that we have also just celebrated “Earth Day” on April 22nd. Earth Day began back in 1970 and was the brainchild of environmental activist, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin who, after witnessing the horrific 1969 oil spill off the California coast, decided it was time to bring more attention to the widespread environmental degradation. That year over 20 million people participated in the Earth Day celebration and now, 40 years later, Earth Day is observed by more than 500 million people around the world. Unfortunately however, the oil spills are still happening, as witnessed recently off the Louisiana Gulf Coast.