A Selection of Photos
This psuedo science experiment Timmi, Jeremy, D.J. Dead & I did in the early 2000's. We had video and still photo coverage. We called it PIG.
APRIL 2012 WHY I LOVE CEMETERIES
or My Trip to Troy, IL
or My Trip to Troy, IL
Light Show
My laptop photography! photos of a movie i watched on the blog PSYCHOTRONIC 16. I've put these together fairly chronologically, but it tells a different, more direct bare-bones story than the movie does! You know, all of the dramatics surrounding juvenile delinquents in 1950's movies. This series just goes right to the point.
This is actually a piece of a longer series of pictures, I'm a little embarrassed to post them all. Maybe i'll do an installment next week.
this is:
THE VIOLENT YEARS
2/13/12
I have not been able to watch t.v. or dvd's for a few weeks now, so i've been filling my time with "creative" projects. This is a standing cardboard cut-out of my dad and his pet lamb (LAMBY). I put him in different environments to see how he would react. What do you think?
JADE photo shoot
I agreed to take pictures of my daughter in one of her cosplay character costumes. This character is in the snowy woods, so our trip to Leavenworth worked out perfectly!
click to Clary's blog of cosplay mayhem and cultural observations.
Cosplayers: a community of dresser-up'ers
Cosplay: dressing up as a character from Anime, Manga, Comics, Movies, anything.
Clary as character Jade Harley, in her God Tier outfit as the Witch of Space.
From MSPA Homestuck, by Andrew Hussie outfit sewn and worn by clrry
STAIRS
Another of my photographic passions. I especially like photographing stairs when there is no one on them. It's interesting that most of my photography has no people in it! I love the symbolism of stairs and the symmetry. Stairs going up seem to mean something different than those leading downward. These were taken over the last few years, everywhere from Deadwood S.D. to Arizona to San Francisco to Seattle. One is a dollhouse photo, several were taken in old brothels. One has a picture of a ghost in it.
My favorite T.V. Still Pictures
I was a television baby from the beginning. I would have loved to sit in front of the t.v. all day to watch the Banana Splits or the Monkees instead of getting "Air". "Go outside", the alternative my mother promoted. So I have been influenced very heavily by sitcoms, made for t.v. movies and MTV. It's a little gross I know, but I can embrace these mediocre influences. They have been embedded in my conciousness and are coming out in my art in interesting and strange ways.
About the photo stills: I love the way these stills can form their own narrative, when they are taken outside of the structure of the film they were orginally a part of.
These photos were taken from All My Children, Lolita and Gattaca.
12.14.11
A random selection of photos on a random kind of day. (how this day's numbers bore me.) This selection includes my favorite subjects to photographs:
dollhouses
my daughter
my friends
dead plants.
Seattle, FALL 2011
I think the reason I enjoy geometric and painterly-looking (out of focus some would say) photos is because my eyes without correction really do see the world like that! All the details are gone, there are fuzzy shapes and my brain interprets some things that i see kinda strangely. Light is very important me. I have worse eyesight in my right eye, so my depth perception (without contacts or glasses) is REALLY wierd. So, in a way, looking at my photos is allowing us all a glimpse thru my pure, crippled eyesight.
Enjoy!
September 2011There's Always More Light Than You Think
-camping in the cascade mtn.'s between two freeways. There is a freeway parallel to a highway parallel to an old wagon trail parallel to a foot path that runs right along the river. I love the way these look like paintings.
HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER
June - August 2011
Photos below of my talented friend Telisa Steen - we had an exciting night creating a costume for one of her projects and I took these after we were done.
Below is a photo project I am continually adding to, it is sometimes called "Olden Whores", sometimes "Other Whores" - it consists of photos taken in old west brothels I've toured in Arizona, Oregon and South Dakota. And one self-portrait as well.
go to the "self portrait" page to see all of my interpretation of some soiled doves
Riding The Bull
NOTE: The slide show didn't work out! but we can still enjoy the photos and the concepts, can't we? heaven, hell, wealth, Elvis, love, passion, the unknowability of others, religion.
The west coast premiere of RIDING THE BULL by August Schulenberg is the play New Amerikan Theatre is currently producing. We have been hard at work!
( go here for more info www.new.amerikantheatre.weebly.com also to my THEATER PROJECTS PAGE)
Some of the photos I've collected, are presented to you here in no particular order. Owen and I will be choosing which ones will become part of the photo narrative that will "play" within the play. They are meant to be the "greek chorus of the show" as our director Richard Buckley says.
I have over 206+ right now, and i've divided them into symbolic categories, because this is the way we often think, not necessarily in literal symbols although we do that too. RTB is an interesting STRANGE sweet play, i hope you can see it! July 22- August 13
current pics as of July 2011:
The weather in seattle had been CONSISTENTLY crappy for a long time. We had something like 90+ days without sun! But since the saturday before the fourth of July, we have had 70 - oh my god 80 degree days! That is until today, as i write this, the weather is cloudy, cool. It rained in the night. A breeze is coming in through the window, it causes the ribbons on the corset hanging above it to dance. It is around 50 degrees.
It feels lovely.
and these......
these are photos that i enjoy, mostly from our last trip to Tucson this past spring.
A LITTLE HISTORY
So about Me & Photography.....
The pit where my mother was born
Honestly, I'm exclusively digital these days. It makes me feel a little guilty to say that, but it's true. If I had a darkroom space I'd like to believe that I'd use it - I still have the equipment.
Maybe my daughter will carry on my brother's legacy, she's been studying both kinds of photography.
He didn't live long enough to see the digital camera.
The moments march on.
ALIEN series
Catherine Englehart
2001
Luckily my friends all had strange elements of their own to bring to the photo shoots. That hood ornament (her weapon) played a part in a few shoots.
It wasn't until 2009 that I first got a digital camera. Now all my poor Rollei and Holga and Nikon sit on the high shelf in the bedroom. Digital is so easy to shoot, so instantly gratifying. And you can make your photos b&w if you choose!
It wasn't until 2009 that I first got a digital camera. Now all my poor Rollei and Holga and Nikon sit on the high shelf in the bedroom. Digital is so easy to shoot, so instantly gratifying. And you can make your photos b&w if you choose!
PULP series
Kirsten McCory & Heidi Van Brost
2002
Most of my photography was done with help of my friends and relatives. I organized many photo shoots for my willing victims.
The "Pulp" series was inspired by the covers of old pulp detective novels. I wanted to create scenarios that held a narrative, but were also ambiguous as to their "true" story. Film Noir was a big influence on this.
The "Pulp" series was inspired by the covers of old pulp detective novels. I wanted to create scenarios that held a narrative, but were also ambiguous as to their "true" story. Film Noir was a big influence on this.
Pin up photos were something I started to do a lot of, performing in Burlesque provided me with the inspiration
2001
Timmi Harrop
Strange Patriotic/Swimsuit Series
maybe 1999?
Timmi Harrop & Catherine Englehart
I was partially studying photography in the first place to fulfill the legacy of my doomed younger brother.
Does the desire to capture images start with an obsession of images?
Is it not wanting to move on from the present moment, a wish to freeze reality?
Does the desire to capture images start with an obsession of images?
Is it not wanting to move on from the present moment, a wish to freeze reality?
