Year: 2021

As a means of managing the scope of my Basement Archeology project, and making the work a little more relatable, I’ve decided to narrow the focus along a food theme. This approach will allow me to contrast then and now. Yet even within this refinement there are many topics that each in themselves could be…

This is a redo of a photograph I made earlier. Comparing the two offers a sense of the difference light makes. To restate what I said before, this ashtray was from my grandfather; he enjoyed a big cigar. In the 1960s it was still ok to smoke; fine restaurants often employ cigarette girls, who would…

I continue to play with light and rumage through things found in the boxes in the basement — my archeological expedition, sans pith helmet. This figurine was stationed in my grandparent’s front hall, always visible on entry. It had made me think of the Olympics … 1936 maybe. In this shot, I chose to emphasize…

Over the last month I have been playing with light to enhanced the sense of drama. The technique I use is light painting. I have setup in my windowless studio five flashlights that allow me to control which parts of the subject are “painted” with light, and importantly, which parts are not. Each flashlight has…