The Postcard for my solo was just sent to me and it looks great I am excited about the show will be printing the work in the next couple of weeks 

Just started to color correct and spot tone this photograph, the scan came out so nice I wanted to share it.  I am getting ready for my show at the McLean County Art Center I am really excited about it. 

Hate Crime Research

I am starting up my research on hate crime locations off of the HRC hate crime report again,  I am hoping to finish all the Chicago location by the spring.

below is one of the articles but still need to find the location.  I will be documenting my progress on this blog.

Man gets 12 years for racial attack

A 28-year-old Northwest Side man, who intentionally ran over a black man two years ago with his sports utility vehicle after spitting on the victim and hurling racial insults, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for the racially-motivated attack. Calling the assault "egregious" and claiming the driver used his car as a "deadly weapon," Cook County Circuit Judge Robert Bertucci sentenced Herberto A.. Pulgar to nine years for aggravated battery and three years for committing a hate crime. Before he was sentenced, Pulgar pleaded with the judge and insisted that he was not racist. "How can I be prejudiced when I'm Hispanic?" Pulgar asked. He went on to apologize for the crime, saying he wished he "could turn back time." Pulgar was convicted last month of deliberately running down Russell Johnson, a 36-year-old Northwest Side man. Russell suffered a broken leg and head injuries as a result of the attack.

Kristi King
Medill News Service
May 5 1999

 

 

I will continue to shot this series in a downward angle to invoke the crime scene photographs from the 1950's.

I have just finished cleaning and color correcting another photograph from my new series.  It took me longer than I expected.

Special Thanks:

I would like to thank all the people who helped me on this project. Without your commitment and time, I would not have been able to complete this series. I would also like to take the time to thank Kevin Hanna my production manager on this project, without him, my vision for the series could not have been realized.

The Red Line: Revisited

I am interested in memory of place and how we are affected by it. This project explores that idea by photographing banal landscapes in portraits of events and people. I accomplish this by using photographic techeniques estabished by crime scene photographers. Below is one of many examples I used as reference for this series.

Below are the first photographs that I took in this series.

It only took me three days but I finished color correcting and adjusting this image.  I think it came out great I only have three more to go before I am ready to print.  It looks like I may have to re-shoot two if the images before I can print. 

 

 



After I finish these images I will begin to work on a companion video piece and re-shoot the other two photographs for my upcoming show in Normal IL.