Everybody Else : Warren Harold

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Warren Harold's project Alternating Weekends was something that resonated with me the first time I saw it. I had the feeling of recognition that occurs when someone is successfully doing what I was aspiring to do : his photographs were not of his kid, they were about the relationship with his kid. How do you photograph a relationship? It can't be taught, but you know it when you see it. Viewing Alternating Weekends you see it.

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Here is his statement:

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Being a child of divorce, my first and foremost concern when my wife and I separated in the fall of 2003 was my 3 year old son. As life moved forward and the divorce was finalized, I found myself almost 60 miles away from him. I make the three hour roundtrip at least twice a week to pick him up for alternating weekends. I've since remarried, and so has his mother.

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Although completely different circumstances prevail, I can't help but compare and contrast my son's situation and environment to mine at that age. My mother was in the middle of an ugly divorce with my absentee father, and I had no male role model to speak of. My son has two. My dad would leave my brother and me alone on the intermittent weekends we would be with him. I struggle to find a balance with our time as a family for those bi-weekly 48 hours. And when he's not with us, we have our daily phone calls to catch up on the day's events.

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Spending as much time with him as I can and making the most of that time is natural and a critical part of every day. I don't do it to compensate for my father's mistakes, but I see more clearly what I missed and I swear to myself that I will never let him feel that vacuum.

See his work HERE.

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all photographs by Warren Harold from Alternating Weekends.

Call For Submissions Update

The entries are rolling in to be featured in Everybody Else Week.

Please submit 3 photographs from an ongoing project you are working on that relates to parent / childhood issues.
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The more unknown you are the better.
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Entries are due Friday at midnight.
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Judging takes place that night!
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Winner is posted on Monday morning.
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Dig deep and enter...

Everybody Else : Dewey Webb

Dewey Webb of Phoenix, Arizona had sent me images from his project All My Channels a few months back. I loved the appreciation of the styles and sensibilities he grabbed off the ever flowing river of images the television provided. His statement is brief and self-deprecating:

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Late at night I shoot photographs of images off the TV screen with my Kodak EasyShare C613. The stuff on satellite TV is always strangest at that hour. Admittedly, frame captures of bad infomercials, old game shows and forgotten movies beaming from outer space may not be the height of creativity, but it feeds my inner Olan Mills.

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Everybody Else Week : Call For Submissions

Ok....this is my chance to see if anyone is reading this blog:

Taking submissions for Everybody Else week.

Please submit 3 photographs from an ongoing project you are working on that relates to parent / childhood issues.

The more unknown you are the better.

No submissions from friends of the blog: Colin, Tethered, Records, Thatcher, etc.

Submit 3 jpgs to tim@timothyarchibald.com

Deadline is Friday at midnight!

Everybody Else : Patrick Runte

Hamburg based photography student Patrick Runte sent me a note a few months back. He was looking to work as an intern over the summer for TA. One look at his work I could tell it would never work out...he was already a genius!
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This is his series titled "Jump and Run". His note provided this as explanation:
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The work is inspired by OSKAR SCHLEMMER and his idea of the "Triadic Ballett" and the Term "Streetplay". I wanted to compile old Videogames, which are based on simple geometric forms and make them able to be experienced/felt by the human body. Do you know what i mean? Videogames can not be experienced... they only make you feel like you are doing stuff. In my work the games transform to real "Jump `N` Run".
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See more of Patrick Runte's work HERE.
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Photographs by Patrick Runte. top to bottom: Pac Man, Space Invaders, Pong.

Everybody Else : Ken Graves and Eva Lipman

I was an Art major at Penn State University from 1985-1989. One of my professors there was Ken Graves. Ken was wrapped up photographing the subculture of Ballroom Dancers and bumped into another photographer photographing the same sub culture in a similar way. This photographer was Eva Lipman. Graves and Lipman starting shooting together and leading their lives together and then got a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999 for their work on masculinity in our culture titled The Making Of Men.

Ken and Eva just moved across the country and ended up buying a house a few minutes from my home. Wtf? We caught up on Friday and went over the book dummy for The Making Of Men, with forward by Germaine Greer. Here are some excerpts...enjoy.

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Dig deeper into their projects on the website HERE.

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photographs copyright Ken Graves and Eva Lipman

Everybody Else Week Redux

After spending weeks discussing Echolilia and pimping various editorial projects, climaxing with a massive spam campaign referencing the Robots Are Real series, I'd like to spend this week celebrating the work of Everybody Else. I did this a few months back and it was a blast. I'll try to hit it every day, lets see if that works...k?