Highway Kind collects images from Justine Kurland’s 2007 -2014 travels around the United States in a customized Astro Van, first with with her young son, Casper, then alone. Interspersed throughout are 8 very short stories by Lynn Tillman, character sketches, mostly, that add a bit flavor. The photographs were culled from a couple of bodies of …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
unboxing some Matt Perry postcards
For the July edition of @CraftyMoni‘s postcard exchange, I was fortunate to draw Mr. Matt Perry, of Wiltshire, UK. Nice! https://youtu.be/fYswtRJ2IjM
Unboxing ‘The Americans’
Robert Frank’s The Americans is one of those seminal photobooks that really needs no introduction, so please enjoy this unboxing…
the ShootFilmCo Summer Print Exchange unboxing
For the Summer 2017 edition of the ShootFilmCo Print Exchange, I traded prints with Isadora Mustata—I think she’s on Twitter and Instagram, maybe—somewhere in California. She got 3 4×6 prints of rather random stuff; I got 2 Instax Wide photos and a Spectra-size Impossible shot. I think I got the better end of the deal. …
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Alfonso: my first street portrait
I usually stay away from people when I shoot. If I catch someone’s eye, maybe I smile, but I usually try avoid eye contact, if I can help it, and I almost never think to ask for a portrait on the rare occasions that I interact with strangers on the street.
Porta 160 at 320, outdoors and in
I’m not sure what it was I read, maybe this post on the MastinLabs blog, but I decided to shoot a roll of Porta 160 at 320… I’m not sure I see a huge amount of difference between 160 and 320, and I didn’t a/b it or anything, and I haven’t shot a huge amount …
Yashica Sports Finder fail…
When using the sports finder on your TLR, remember that, much like the viewing lens, it doesn’t show you what the taking lens sees, and so you need to make sure things aren’t protruding into the frame, like the strap did here. :facepalm:
