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Hello world, wanted to share some thoughts/images from one of my favorite photographers: Thierry Le Goues.

I particularly love the work he shot for the French clothing company: Antik Batik. From this work I can guess several things about Thierry… first, he must have a very beautiful energy and probably makes a lot of people smile. His images are full of life and lack any fear. He also understands the technology he is working with… all the images from the Antik Batik campaigns are low production shoots with a single flash that has a certain output range… Thierry is very familiar with the amount of distance he should put between him and his subject for his system to work. I find the work courageous and encourage you to view more of Thierry’s work here

Here are a few of my favorites from the Antik Batik campaigns:

Interested in a high resolution image of our 44th president? The official portrait of Barack Obama, download here

Makes a great 8×10 print for personal usage. This is the first official presidential portrait to be shot with a digital camera, just a tidbit for convo. enjoy.

Check out “The Selby,” a website by photographer Todd Selby. I adore this site… On the site, Todd documents the homes and spaces of creatives (artists, editors, writers…etc.), he shoots traditional portraits of his subjects as well as portraits of them through their possessions. He has a free, loose, low production style …I bet he spends a lot time organizing and compiling the shoots on his website. Something I personally appreciate.

His site is really fun to experience. You can scroll down his splash page and see portrait after portrait and should you want to know more about the subject of each portrait… click, and you get to see their spaces from other angles, their possessions, their style. I find it to be very revealing… for me the site as a whole resonates with today’s sense of lifestyle plus its a great contemporary expression of photography. He also distributes his work through an RSS feed too… Fucking brilliant… “The Selby”

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Thank you to Erik Wåhlström for original posting.

If you have seen not Erik’s work, I highly recommend it, its bold, simple and like all things I like… deceptively simple.

I went up to Vancouver for the weekend to document a performance by one of my dearest friends and a tremendously powerful artist… Lida Abdul. I encourage you to check out her artist statement at www.lidaabdul.com

Below are some of the images from her performance.

enjoy: