This has been one interesting year! Happy 2011 to everyone!
The year has been full of interesting project and all so very different!
The most news worthy project I worked on this year, was Wafaa Bilal’s 3RDI. The artist installed a camera in the back of his head with a subdermal implant of screws, and I was there to document the process! It was very intense. My photos & videos landed on the Wallstreet journal and many other news outlets. Wafaa will have the camera installed in the back of his head, the camera will be taking photos every minute and is digitally transmitted to the website.
Early in the year I found a sign at the PEX Summer Festival and the project “YOU ARE HERE” was born. It’s been a fun ride and there is much more to come. Stay tuned on the YOU ARE HERE facebook page! Here are snippets from some new YOU ARE HERE projects.
YOU ARE HERE – NYC lives to skate. I took the sign to the Pier 62 Skatepark and let the skaters there take the sign for a ride. From young to old they live to skate!
YOU ARE HERE – goes Cross-Country. The sign came with me when I drove cross country to move to Los Angeles California. People love YOU ARE HERE wherever you go in the US!
YOU ARE HERE – Rally to Restore Sanity
YOU ARE HERE – Bohemian Carnival. Amazing circus fun in San Francisco!
I also worked on the project A WAVE OF WORDS with the New York Harbor School and the Peace Corps Fellowship Program in NYC. This was one of the most rewarding projects I have worked on. The kids opened up their soul and poured so much hard work into the project!
I also had the pleasure of portraying some really amazing people this year.
Tony Kaye - director of American History X
Marwan Nahle - Artist
Roberto Lim - Yoga Guru
This year was the first year that I took a SLR camera to Burning Man. I have to say it was an awkward experience at first and it took me a couple of days to take out my camera. There is something that makes you lose connection with the experience when you get stuck behind a big lens. But in the end I am glad I brought my baby and will bring it again next year!
Earlier in the year I went back to Mali with the film team for the documentary “MUSIC IN MALI” which is planned to be realized sometime next year. It was an amazing opportunity to go back and see other parts and facets of Mali, but also to see old friends again.
Straight after Mali was NY Fashion Week 2010, which I got to document for LOT71. I felt right at the pulse of this amazing city.
There is so much more and if you want to find out about it visit my Website or my Facebook Page or my Flickr.
I wish you all a very happy New Year and look forward to catching a lot of you in front of my lens in 2011!!
Now let’s go out and ring in this New Year!
Amazing woman!!! YOU are so talented!!! Congrats on such an amazing year. Your work has some fantastic energy that I don’t see much anymore..miss you already and really hope to see you in nyc this summer!!