Sprockets

Rose Garden Bunny

2011-08-01T01:15:00.004-04:00

I finally decided to shoot a pack of polaroid that I had been holding onto for far too long.
I stumbled upon this bunny eating petals at the Rose Gardens. He did not run away when the photo pushed out the camera so I hope the tourist haven't tamed him to the point where he'd get eaten by a hawk.

the exits came and went away

2011-07-13T17:36:00.004-04:00

Evenin'

2011-07-10T13:59:00.001-04:00

2011-07-06T00:30:00.000-04:00

At the Kitts

2011-06-25T02:57:00.002-04:00

Why Hello There,

Just one for today, tonight.
I did some cat/apartment sitting earlier this month
and pretended I was someone else.
Thanks for stopping by!

in the grass

2011-06-12T17:53:00.002-04:00

i do believe the rainy season is over.

Escape

2011-05-29T15:26:00.004-04:00

How can I see without these eyes?

2011-05-15T19:27:00.002-04:00

In camera triptychs, silver prints boy howdy!

Thanks for looking!

Postcards with Willa Cather Quote

2011-05-12T15:49:00.000-04:00

une autre fleur pour elle

2011-04-03T14:17:00.001-04:00

shots from home

2011-03-05T13:27:00.004-05:00

Here are some shots from the holidays down in North Texas. I didn't shoot nearly as much as I wanted to, a bit distracted with upcoming plans but I had time to see the family, sit in the sunshine, drive an automobile, eat Mexican food and stare at the sprawl. Photography can separate or enhance.
I have an up coming mini show with many prints in April.
And there's a Renaissance art midterm, I'm suppose to be studying for. right now.

Thanks for Looking!

Well, Fuck Me.

2011-02-26T02:12:00.005-05:00

It's almost March.
Been shooting 4x5 and printing 35mm from the past few months in a new city with a wonderful lab space.
More photos soon. Happy New Year.

Goodbye Cambridge APT

2010-12-27T23:36:00.004-05:00

and more likely than not C-Printing.

I'm leaving in less than a month for Portland and I've found myself taking pictures of the apartment when I should be packing and organizing.
Shoot through it.

Car rides, babies, water spots and more

2010-11-14T09:41:00.003-05:00

A few more black and whites. I have some ideas (floatin around and written down) of how to push this experiment into projects or studies but I want to play around a bit more. Conceptualization too early can be silly.

Don't make me commit.

This One

2010-11-12T19:16:00.001-05:00

with the one below.
black and whites coming soon

Coming to the same conclusions after time has past

2010-10-31T19:46:00.005-04:00

Ben

I'll start using words soon.

2010-10-28T22:59:00.003-04:00

Daaarrrrrllliinnnggg

2010-10-11T09:31:00.002-04:00

Both taken in the Murphy's backyard, Newburyport.
This is my 50th post.
Today I process more black and white film. Boy Howdy.

Please Pardon the Dust

2010-10-02T18:09:00.004-04:00

I've been a bit obsessed with photographing glowing sign boxes/ blow out windows lately but this is the only one I have printed:

Above^ is also the closing photo to my Summer 2010 chapter. I think it works nicely against this one as the opener:

Thanks for stoppin' by

Summah

2010-09-12T18:04:00.003-04:00

4th, Trav, Camp, Drive

Summer I'm gonna miss you.

Talking and Sitting

2010-09-06T19:44:00.004-04:00

I like watching myself take the same picture in different ways. Here are three that are talking. Two have been posted before, one is newly printed but from the winter. Also shown in chronological order.

And this is another (hand held) "panorama" i did while sitting and talking to sparrows. I don't use tripod because of a traumatic incident that ended in a broken lens.

Experiments in Black and White

2010-08-25T12:19:00.004-04:00

a.k.a. i love film grain.

There are from a little experimentation in pushing black and white film. The first four are from Kodak T-Max 400iso pushed to 6400. The last one is Ilford 100 push to 3200 and I'm pretty sure this roll was expired. All were shot at night except the last one which was indoor window light(p.s. not my stash).
I've been shooting color film exclusively for the past two or so years, I'm excited to get back to black and white. Now I just need to get my hand wet again.

I can shoot Weddings too.

2010-08-06T11:57:00.002-04:00

I went to a wedding in July and played with double exposures.
Can you spot the Cheetah?

Studying

2010-07-31T14:08:00.003-04:00

Watching the light shift on the ceiling.

Taken on the Morning of the Summer Solstice.
Thanks for stopping by!

Freedom. Free-Dom.

2010-07-28T10:36:00.001-04:00

a few from this summer

NYC Verticals

2010-07-18T20:27:00.004-04:00

June NYC trip:

Coney Island

Midtown

Street Machine #2

Empire

Summmmmmer

2010-07-14T08:48:00.002-04:00

Howdy

It's been too long. Summer seems to be speeding by.
I've been working too many hours at that place where I earn a consistent paycheck. Yuck.
But I am back TAing at Nesop for the summer so now I'm c-printing again.
And have also been working on secret things. Secrets......
New work is scanned and will be posted soon.
Thanks for stopping by!

NYC

2010-06-13T09:43:00.006-04:00

Today I am heading down for a New York City adventure. Here's two from previous nyc trips

Moo

2010-06-10T10:45:00.001-04:00

Texas State Fair, 2008

WebSite updated!

2010-05-31T13:50:00.002-04:00

Lately, I have been working on redesigning my website. It's about 90% done.
Check it out!

www.SarahIdean.com

"i get low low low on my own"

2010-05-25T00:18:00.003-04:00

Mild to Moderate

2010-05-13T09:44:00.006-04:00

Obsession. I just can't stop.
Thanks for looking!

Another PanOrama

2010-05-11T20:08:00.004-04:00

thank god its spring

Drinking on the Beach

2010-04-28T22:30:00.003-04:00

(click to enlarge)

and taking hand held panoramas is fun.
From March?

inverted inventions

2010-04-23T21:49:00.005-04:00

My photographic works since Texas have been empty. So here are two from the weeks spent down there. The digital age makes me feel like I need to shoot, process and share online within a days of the capture. And if I'm not playing that game them I am not being a productive photographer. I am still digesting my work from Texas and most things I've done since graduating last spring. Digesting. This isn't fast food. It's goddamn nutritious.

(p.s. although i do believe sharing in caring)

When the pool light is on

2010-04-10T21:50:00.003-04:00

it glows green, only for a few of the coldest winter days.
It tells me to come home.

Keep your muse(s) at an arm's length, the distance creates desperation where one can flourish.

From Mariposa

2010-04-01T09:34:00.003-04:00

Go check it out! My work is up for a few more days!

Photos by Ms YoonJoo Kim

Plants. At. Night!

2010-03-28T12:56:00.005-04:00

From a Cambridge walk, in December.

Garden Octopus in Denton, January.

Hydrangea...Sommerville?

They're all dead I tell you! Dead!

hm.

2010-03-27T22:32:00.002-04:00

Ain't Nothin Holier than a Snapshot

2010-03-16T10:57:00.002-04:00

And I know this to be true.
Here are some family photos I have collected (and taken without consent), thought I would share.

taken by my mother or one of her siblings

Mom and Pop (and my uncle Steven in the background)pre-children

My Dad and brother 1986ish

Idean Watson, my grandmother

Tah-Dah

2010-03-14T15:20:00.003-04:00

Here are three of the fifteen photos that are presently up at Mariposa Bakery. The reception was fantastic, pictures shall be shared when I can get my hands on some juice digital files. The show is up until early April so go on by, get a coffee and pastry(nom nom delicious!) and take a look!

Come one, come all!

2010-02-22T19:54:00.001-05:00

some boxes you cant get out of

2010-02-16T16:08:00.002-05:00

and why would I?

Dos Gatos

2010-02-15T22:16:00.002-05:00

Two more from Texas. Still printing and scanning from film I shot while I was down there. I've been a bit down in the dumps since I've been faced with unemployment again but trying to keep my head up. I have to work through this midwinter blues, spring (and sunshine and long photo walks) is just around the corner.
Sometimes there is just too many what should I do next questions.

Ms. Kirby

2010-02-07T11:27:00.003-05:00

Remember that time when we were lost in the woods but didnt know we were lost in the woods?

As of today, I am unemployed. Hm. I will go make c-prints on expired paper and do some thinking.

"Sing a happy song and we'll sing along"

2010-01-29T20:42:00.003-05:00

My Daddio on X-mas day.

"and all that time i really miss my pride

2010-01-28T23:33:00.008-05:00

I'm living a black hoax lie
wherever you left me
that's where my heart still lies"

Words by Ms Sarah Jaffe
Top photo: Lost in the Woods, perhaps Denton, TX (where Ms Jaffe is from)
Bottom photo: Coldest Day in Dallas

Work from Dallas

2010-01-27T23:52:00.005-05:00

Wow, January you are flying by and I have been busier than I expected. This is good though, it keeps me going during these dragging winter months. Been slowing printing and trying to process (mentally not chemically) what I shot while in Texas: here are three:

new old bedroom

vast empty lots

x-mas lights

Except more new work soon.
Tomorrow I work on editing and sequencing for a show. !!!!!!!!
More on that later.

Mornin' after

2010-01-17T22:25:00.002-05:00

Editing some files again for a submission after an long day earning monies...
This one is from summer time (August perhaps?) after an adventure at the beach with good friends.
Process some film from Dallas and the printing has begun. Will post sooni
Tootles!

For the New Year

2010-01-05T11:14:00.003-05:00

Still in Dallas for another few days. Still shooting. Ready to go back the the New England tundra.
Now, how am I going to process all this film?

Last Winter

2009-12-29T11:51:00.004-05:00

From last winter when I was in Texas. Oh mama look at that sprawl.

Drink Coffee, Brush Teeth, Take Self Portrait

2009-12-24T12:34:00.006-05:00

Here are the first five printed self portraits from my morning portraits WIP series. Each (most) are taken moments before I walk out the door for the first time. I am interested in seeing how I feel/look before I present myself to the hustle and bustle of Central Square and the changes of my expression, stance and clothing.
Its about the everyday.
I have been wanting to do a daily photo project for sometime but did not know what to shoot, this seems to be worth exploring for now.
All of these were taken in November or early December, and I am pretty sure the first one here was the first one i took.
I am hoping to have more printed and posted in a about month but they will have a different locations and people in them.

Merry X-mas, Eat some fucking pie!

Touch my (print) Box

2009-12-21T18:31:00.005-05:00

This is where What November Was and Morning Portraits are living. I am becoming more obsessed with objects that surround photographs and photography itself such as film canisters, print envelopes, packaging for the film and paper, and receipts for processing. So i have started scanning in these objects as well because their presence is important to my process.
Oh and thanks for the paper Traverse, I finally printed on it after a year and a half.

What November Was (part two)

2009-12-19T14:36:00.006-05:00

November was the last warm days, the last night wanderings and talks about the future.

Where are we going? Oh photos will you let me know?

Presently I am down in Texas, the sun is shining, and I want to photograph everything. While visiting friends and family, I keep coming across stacks of photos- snap shots with no time line or order - that make me drool. The randomness of people and places I don't know or haven't thought about in a while, different textures of paper, photos from the 1960s hanging out next to pictures from a few months ago, some fading and beat to shit, someone's history vibrating in my hands and eyeballs. Snapshots are one of (if not the) my greatest influences on my work, there is something just so beautiful and humble about them. I feel as if I have the same intentions as a families' photo album just on a larger scale.
Do people still do photo albums? Or are we locking them inside of digital cameras and computers?

Thanks for lookin' and reading.

©S.I. Watson

What November Was (part one)

2009-12-13T11:16:00.006-05:00

Scanned 5x7 prints on lovely expired Ektacolor paper, printed this past week.

November was about post prime pumpkins, rainy NYC adventure and then a clear(stoned)melancholy Thanksgiving morning. More to come.

I wonder if I am wandering in circles, photographing in circles.

Heading down South to sunny sprawling Dallas later this week. A place that I hated so much as become a muse of sorts.

Thanks for looking.

Flash for you

2009-12-06T10:11:00.003-05:00

I have taken to night wandering with a friend(s) an shooting with an on camera flash, and these are the product of such adventures. Last night it snowed here in Cambridge so I am not sure how much longer I will be able to go out and shoot this way. Ah well, seasonal seasons.

hm.... that is all.

Photograph to Remember

2009-11-23T20:54:00.003-05:00

Contact sheet from November 14 and 15th 2009

Snapshots are my greatest influence. Thought I'd share.

Yellow Winter Juice

2009-11-20T08:48:00.003-05:00

Three photos from my NESOP graduation portfolio that I also submitted to the Mariposa call. I heard back from Mariposa yesterday, saying they were interested but still needed to finish looking through the entries. Cool. A pretty fast turn around for a cafe, I have my fingers crossed.

Them Boys

2009-11-06T22:05:00.007-05:00

Them Boys: Trav, John, Max, Sam. Here, there and everywhere.

Been digging through files for a submission that is due in a few days, figure I would toss these up.

Where did it go?

2009-10-28T10:04:00.007-04:00

Adam and Loafer, Hull Mass, August

Luke's SunRoom, Allston Mass, August

Garland Texas, July

DFW morning, Texas, July

Here are four images from the Summer of Sundays chapter that I am presently working on(with?); printing, editing, scanning and thinking abouts. Where did you go summer? It felt like all dog days with a bit of Texas heat.
Sorry about the lack of posts. About six weeks ago I started working a (terrible) retail job to pay the bills and live . (I shouldn't complain with the unemployment rate edging towards 10%.) So I am learning to balance working for $$$s and working for my art. Still shooting, printing once or twice a week and looking at work by other. It is just the digital work I have no attention for esp. when i get off of work. I am sure this will change in the winter when I will be more inclined to stay in and drink wine.
I also started TAing at Nesop for 2nd year color, the class is fabalous, they keep me excited about photography.
Alec Soth (rhymes with both) gave lecture "The Democratic Jungle" at Mass Art on Monday evening. I enjoyed that he gave stories behind some of his work/life and also talked about the present conditions of photograhy in the world of flickr and the dying print meduim. He was handsome and human and I should have taken notes.

touch is required.

2009-08-28T21:20:00.002-04:00

A photograph is only a photograph if I can touch it.
Anything else is a lesser form like an image or picture.

Tortilla Red Sweater

2009-08-26T10:09:00.005-04:00

Click to make bigger.
1. Tortillas
2. Red
3. Sweater
Two from Cambridge one from Texas, can you guess which is from Texas?

I sent out a package of prints to Dallas yesterday. Hooray for selling work and living off of it. I actually haven't been shooting that much film since I got back from Texas. I'm kinda bored with the Cambridge/Boston area but that could just be the summer doldrums.
I did shoot a few rolls this weekend, its mainly of people/adventures with friends. And i have another two rolls to finish before I'll head back to the lab to make print.

p.s. I have developed recent summer flowers obsession. They are just so pretty. Here's another:

Green Times Three:

2009-08-17T01:17:00.003-04:00

1: Green Bus (hello darling), Dallas
2: Honeysuckles, Cambridge
3: Mom's Old Passport, Dallas

This is long over due I am getting back on track. Its just the summer time.

is this going to be forever?

2009-06-20T14:40:00.008-04:00

Schools out. Family is gone. I have time for my thoughts. Oh God.
Here are a few new photos from the last weeks of school and graduation:
The newly southern gentleman Luke Walen

William Grace at his opening in Jamaican Plain
NESOP 09 class photo
At the liquor store

Mr Adam Donnelly

And Miss Tibbetts

I need to buy a new scanner, the one I have was given to me for free maybe 4 or 5 years ago, before I knew anything about scanning. Drug store prints are getting too expensive for my tight budget. But I have to say that one of my favorite things to do is dig through boxes of old photographs. You know those photo album rejects that everyone's parents have hidden away in the closet. Mmmm.
I'm still working on my summer plans, I just wish it would stop raining.

Number One

2009-05-07T18:49:00.002-04:00

Hello !
This blog will be about photography and other arts.
But probably wont be very active until I am done with school in a month.

Check out my site
SarahIdean.com