©Bryan Formhals
Month: March 2009
Photo: A couple on a car at the end of the night on Cahuenga Blvd.
Posted by – March 18, 2009
Photo: One From the BW Holga Rolls
Posted by – March 17, 2009
©Bryan Formhals – West Hollywood, CA
I’ve been shooting black and white in my Holga for half year now. I scanned a bunch of rolls when I was in Minnesota. I remembered this one happened to be online because I was showing a friend of mine. The plan is to use this in the third section of a black and white project that will include edited versions of ‘Medine‘ and ‘American Road Ghost.’ Probably will take awhile to complete though considering I haven’t been shooting for it much these days, but I’m ok with a snails paces for this project. Black and white is a fun diversion.
Photo: Ventriloquist and His Buddy on the Venice Boardwalk
Posted by – March 8, 2009
©Bryan Formhals
The Great New Photography Collective That You’ll Never Hear About
Posted by – March 6, 2009
“What I’m wondering is why there aren’t more of those groups. It appears quite obvious that connecting with other photographers over the net is very simple, and lots of people seem to be doing that. But then the next step, regular meetings, and joint activities don’t really seem to be happening all that much.” – Jorg Coldberg
©Bryan Formhals
There’s been a reasonable amount of chatter about photography collectives as of late. And if you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening online, you’ll know that several already exist. In October of 2007 I made a trip to New York City to meet up with several friends that I met through HCSP. We were gathering there to outline our plans for the next great photography collective.
We’d built the group up to one of the most respectable and interesting groups on Flickr but we were ambitious and wanted to do something. None of us were entirely satisfied with the Flickr experience and knew that working together on a new project could be interesting and potentially incredibly innovative for the distribution of photography on the web.
Curating 2.0, A Moveable Feast
Posted by – March 5, 2009
photograph by Jared Lorio
“The word ‘curate’ has become so debased from its original meaning that you can now hang an exhibition in a small commercial gallery, write a 300-word press release and claim to have ‘curated’ it.” – Ben Street
When I read that quote I laughed. For awhile I considered what we’re doing with La Pura Vida to be curating in some new fashion but recently I’ve changed course and tend to call it editing and publishing. Curators work in museums and expensive galleries, not on social networking site, which is fine with me because that’s not something I aspire to.
A couple of months before I left Los Angeles I was at one my friend Dave’s UFC parties enjoying myself when I got to chatting with Walt Gorecki, who I knew from all the previous parties. He mentioned that he was the creative director at L’Keg Gallery, a small space in Echo Park. He knew I was a photographer so proposed perhaps doing a show of my work. The thought of editing, printing and then showcasing my work made me a bit ill so I quickly brought up the idea of a La Pura Vida show. I gave him my card and he checked out the site a few days later and thought it’d be a good fit. So we planned on doing a show sometime in the spring.