MY WORK : PRETENDER | JOSHUA SEIDNER

These three images are part of my documentation of Joshua Seidner's performance piece"Pretender."

"In "Pretender," Joshua Seidner draws from themes of Orientalism and ritual, offering audience members a foot cleaning and massage. This occasionally awkward interaction raises questions of socio-economic status, gender and power in western culture."

MY WORK | PORTRAITS

MAXIM SANTALOV

Maxim Santalov is a 24-year-old self-taught artist from Russia.

TEACHING | L'ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of teaching a digital photography class through the dynamic L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Brooklyn. We learned about the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and film speed then dove into the particulars of shooting with a digital camera. I think the students learned a ton and we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

Learn more and sign up for the next class here.

PRETENDER | JOSHUA SEIDNER

I was asked by artist/performer Joshua Seidner to document his performance art piece "Pretender," performed last night at HERE as part of "Looks Like Torture" group show. Be looking for the powerful images soon.

MY WORK: FEAST | ANDREW ONDREJCAK

 

A number of months ago I had the pleasure of photographing the press/PR photos for my friend Andrew Ondrejcak's play FEAST.

THE BREEDERS | REUNION TOUR

"After only two years of touring, the Breeders played their last show on September 5th, 1994, at Lollapalooza in Los Angeles.

In 2013 they will tour together again for the first time since then, playing the album Last Splash from beginning to end, on dates in the US and in Europe. They will be joined onstage by Breeder’s violinist Carrie Bradley, who played on the album and as well as on several Breeders tours. 4AD will release LSXX, a deluxe anniversary edition of Last Splash, on 23 April 2013."

Tickets and tour dates can be seen here.

HOOD BY AIR BY MATTHEW WILLIAMS / SHAYNE OLIVER FOR SHOWSTUDIO

MY WORK: TEEN VOGUE | DYLAN HYDE

I recently shot young musician Dylan Hyde for Teen Vogue, check out the story here.

SCHELTENS & ABBENES

"Having worked together on various projects (and being a couple), photographer Maurice Scheltens (1972) and visual artist Liesbeth Abbenes (1970) have decided to consolidate their professional collaboration. The specialty of Scheltens & Abbenes is to meticulously arrange objects - chairs, glassware, shirts, perfume bottles - into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character." Scheltens & Abbenes

LEE FRIEDLANDER | MADONNA, 1979

In 1979, Madonna answered photographer Lee Friedlander's newspaper ad seeking a nude model, receiving $25 for the session. 

Friedlander now has two shows up in NYC, one at Pace/MacGill Gallery and one at Pace Gallery.  

MY WORK: BACKSTAGE | OHNE TITEL SS '13

Earlier this week I shot backstage at Ohne Titel's Spring/Summer '13 show. Be sure to check out their collection here.

A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (FANTASYLAND)

Today I will be participating in a performance piece by Joshua Seidner in Long Island City. Come check it out, it promises to be stimulating and provocative.

MY WORK: KINDNESS | VILLAGE VOICE

I recently shot Adam Bainbridge, aka "Kindness" for the Village Voice. His music is excellent and he couldn't be a more genuine and gracious guy. Check out the story here.

YSL LOGO: ADOLPHE MOURON CASSANDRE

The iconic YSL logo was created by a Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. Born in 1901, he created the elegant YSL logo in 1963 and tragically committed suicide five years later.

MY WORK | WILD MAGAZINE

   

FRANK OCEAN

Christopher Breaux aka Christopher Francis Ocean aka Frank Ocean is a 24-year old R&B singer from New Orleans. He's separated himself from hordes of other R&B singers by working with artists such as Odd Future and Jay-Z and Kanye West on "No Church In The Wild."

VIDEO | WILD MAGAZINE

This is my most recent video, shot for The Wild Magazine.

KRAFTWERK | RETROSPECTIVE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Celebrating Kraftwerk’s extensive influence on electronic music, MoMA PS1 invites distinguished DJs and producers to play tribute sets in the installation Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. On four consecutive weekends, musicians explore different facets of the group’s pioneering sound that influenced musical styles as diverse as Electro-Funk, Disco, New Wave, Techno, and Hip-Hop.

Check out this mind-blowing lineup and I'll see you there:

Sunday, April 22: GREG WILSON
4:00-7:00 p.m.

Greg Wilson is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK
dance scene where he was instrumental in introducing new electronic,
post-disco records coming out of New York in the early 1980s. The sound,
he dubbed 'Electro-Funk', was in return profoundly influenced by the
German electro-pioneers Kraftwerk.

Sunday, April 29: DJ HARVEY
3:00-6:00 p.m.

DJ Harvey earned an international following for his idiosyncratic,
ever-increasing, and extremely danceable sets. Mixing musical styles as
eclectic as Disco, House, Funk and Soul, Harvey takes his listeners on a
historical journey through Kraftwerk's manifold influences.

Sunday, May 6: QUESTLOVE
3:00-5:30 p.m.

Questlove—a drummer, DJ, and music producer—is best known as a member
of the neo-soul Hip Hop band The Roots. During his DJ set, he will
explore Kraftwerk's importance for early Electro-Funk and Hip Hop.

Sunday, May 13: AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

In 1982 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force sampled Kraftwerk's
Trans Europe Express and created with Planet Rock one of Hip Hop's first
hymns. Like many Rap and Hip Hop musicians after him Bambaataa used
Kraftwerk's melodies and sound inventions to electronically reinvent the
rhythmic complexity of black dance music

HERB RITTS | GETTY MUSEUM

The Getty Museum in LA will be showing an exhibition of Herb Ritts' work from April 3 to August 26, 2012. This is an extremely important and timely show of a seminal photographer's work that is not to be missed.

SHIKASTA NASTA 'LIQ

Shikasta Nastaʿlīq is a newer form of Persian calligraphy whose advent was around the 17th century AD.

NOW WE KNOW WHERE M.I.A GOT HER INSPIRATION

SAM FALLS

"Recognizing the inherent linkage between painting, photography and sculpture, and striving to expand the mediums, Falls breaks down photographic content into form and color and back again.  ...Falls aims to negate the single isolated moment of a photograph's creation. The final products are an amalgamation of three stages of production: photographic, digital and physical. The viewer is not looking at a photograph depicting the past, but at a multimedia composition where the subject becomes the artistic production." 

i-D Mag | Top Tracks of 2011

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Educate yourself!

AZEALIA BANKS | 212

So very fresh. And she went to La Guardia High School of Performing Arts.

RAYMOND PETTIBON | REGEN PROJECTS

The immensely talented and thoroughly LA artist Raymond Pettibon is having an opening at Regen Projects in LA on November 4. Be sure to check it out if you're on the west coast.

SEMICONDUCTOR | 20 HZ

20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.

Watch on full screen, I promise you'll be glad you took the time to watch this.

ROLFE HORN