So I’m still trying to post on this thing with some consistently. Classes have kept me really busy but I think after Thanksgiving things should slow down, at least until next semester. Here are a couple of pictures from this past week. I don’t know if this will definitely become a “Photos of the Week” thing, but it very well could.

Anyway, here’s a shot from Eastern Market in DC on Saturday. This is Tamrat, he was collecting change for the Salvation Army on a street corner between the market and “murky coffee”. I’m not sure if he was really drunk, a bit crazy or both, but he certainly was interesting. I snapped this one as he was going through a few poses for an improve photo shoot that he insisted on.

You can see more on my flickr photostream.

Preparing for a personal project that I will be working on over the course of the next few months/year I took a few test shots of my friend to try out different composition and framing. This shot represents basically exactly how I want the pictures to look as far as how the face is framed and composed. I want a somewhat even lighting and natural light whenever possible. The facial expression will be completely up to the subject.
Right now, the working name for this project is the Genea Project. Genea taken from Greek meaning family. Again, it’s a working title so to speak, the project is about people. I’ve always been interested in the minute but visually drastic differences in peoples faces. How we perceive and interpret even the slightest subtlety in facial structure to assume and mean different things. How we tell people apart and also how we may confuse too completely different people. I feel like some points of this project may sound incredibly cliche when said out loud, and they may have been approached by other artists already: we are all humans and belong to the same species but look so drastically different. Humanity, and all those good artistic buzzwords and phrases. But the main part of this project for me, at least right now, is the physical nuances between faces and what makes them more or less different or the same in our eye. How such little changes result in such a largely different picture. What makes one person look different than another. I’ve had this general idea for a while, but while I have a core purpose and concept, I know that some aspects of this project will evolve over the course of it and I’m pretty excited to see where it goes.