Why, as a photographer, would I want to spend my time blogging? The short answer is, I have some thoughts, beyond keywords and metadata, that I’d like to share with other creative people. Also, a few of my photographer friends love to express themselves as musicians and, so far, no one I know wants to hear me play that didgeridoo that I bought last month. And, finally, I didn’t want to be the last person on earth to have a blog.
I’ll begin with some insights into my most recent project – portraits of eleven of the most respected designers in the U.S. This blog will have stories and background photos about the portrait sessions. I’ll be posting more about them over the next few days. Later, you’ll find other topics that should be of interest to anyone in the visual arts.
I’ll never tell whose spread Chip Kidd was reacting to, but if you’d like to know the details behind my designer portrait series, along with some never before published photographs, stay tuned. Every day, for the next week or so, you can read a new blog post about my photo session with each designer.
Click here to order a copy of the brochure from Mohawk Fine Papers. Click here to go to Felt and Wire, Mohawk’s award winning website where you can learn more about the project.
If you’re still with me after all that clicking I can just tell you, right on this post, that the designers in my series are: Stefan Sagmeister, Ellen Lupton, Paula Scher, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Seymour Chwast, Stephen Doyle, April Greiman, Michael Bierut, Chip Kidd, and Milton Glaser.