Images I've Been Waiting To Show





Super excited to dig into the year past and bring out some alternate takes from shoots I've been waiting to share. Benjamin Franklin researcher Carolyn Winterer for Smithsonian was really the best subject one could ever ask for. She engaged with our ideas and always took the elegant high road amidst it all.
My original concept, pitched to the photo editors and approved somehow, was to hire a Benjamin Franklin impersonator and have him in the room...or in her office...or on the street with her. We all agreed to move forward with this concept...the art department and the subject...and I just sat there stunned, wondering what I had gotten myself into.

The next day we all regrouped and I talked my way out of it. Everyone seemed relieved. :)

None the less, our images came together seamlessly, with the help of the National Portrait Gallery in DC. The image below ran in the story and the image above will be used in a Smithsonian Channel production.

Art Producers Speak

But the point I’m trying to make here is don’t stop listening to life. Don’t feel you’ve heard it all before, you’re bored and jaded, there is nothing new and you can’t get out of a pattern. When I was younger I feel like I needed my work to shout and be extreme, to find things people have never seen before. Now I feel there is a lot to come from simply listening and seeing the wonder that sometimes comes out of what is right in front of you.
- Art Producers Speak : TA on A Photo Editor

I was knocked down hard and fast by some soul sucking illness on Wednesday. I had the liberty of sleeping all day and awoke to this very cool internet manifestation: An interview with myself, done ages ago, now release on A Photo Editor. An insightful edit of my commercial work, as well as an interview that certainly sounded like me. A greatly appreciated snapshot into what we are up to here in 2014.

Dig into it HERE.

Print Lives / Das Magazine 12/6/2013

Ist Das Wirklich Mein Kind?

or

Is This Really My Child?

 

What happens to parents whose children are different?

 

Andrew Solomon wrote a book about it with Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.

 

Das Magazin called on a rainy day with a very tight deadline. We all loved the idea of using ECHOLILIA to illustrate this essay and worked into the weekend getting the pieces lined up.

 

I couldn't have been more impressed with the layout and design...super use of white space and no space...and that was just this story. Killer design throughout the magazine. Every story was special and handled as it's own fully realized concept.

 

Enjoy. 

 

Last Night of The Year

Well this certainly was an eventful year. In life, in work, and in every nook and cranny.

It is New Year's Eve. Always by choice I do nothing. The new year is going to arrive whether I cheer it on or not.

It's Eli and Wilson and myself here tonight. We made a new barbeque chicken recipe on the grill, we heated frozen corn, we ate it with garlic naan. We mixed a cocktail of ginger ale and orange juice and watched the film Avatar. That wasn't nothing really at all. It was everything.

Leaving this night with two images that surfaced from our Nokia Holiday Realness campaign we shot for Geometry SF that seem fitting for the year past. The top one seems melancholy, kind of worse for the wear but still standing. Beaten not broken, but screaming with color. Hopeful for all that lies ahead.

The last one is an inspired Dada-ist moment that makes me smile every time I see it. I love every detail and will note this simple little gesture that suddenly changes everything.

Amen.

Nokia Holiday Realness Campaign or #TTDOX

The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Also known as #TTDOX.
Selections from the Nokia Lumia Holiday Realness campaign
Elegantly produced by Daniel Dobers
Props and Wardrobe by Shannon Amos
Creative Director was John Munyan
Art Directors Jess Andrews and Monica Mattson
We really never had more fun than this.

Wilson Edward Archibald / 9 Years Old Today!

Who has the cloak of invisibility?
Who can move without a sound?
Whispering to animals
Listening to grass
Whose feet don't touch the ground?

Happy Birthday Wilson. Nine years old today!

When You Least Expect It / Happy Birthday Poem

Elijah James Archibald

Born today, 12/3/2001

 

When you least expect it...

Expect it.

 

Where you never think you'll find it.

You found it.

 

Each and every day is a surprise.

Happy Birthday!