Milton Still Lifes

Seasons Greetings to you and your family!

This is an image from my Milton still life series. I shot the still lifes in both 4 by 5 chrome and digital. The 4 by 5 chromes will be very handy when it comes time to show the prints in a gallery. All the images are sort of "leftovers" as well. This image was made possible when my parents neighbor showed me the deer he shot with a bow and arrow. I borrowed the head from him before he boiled it to remove the flesh. I was referencing old Dutch still lifes at the time. As always it was stressful deciding what to include in the still life and what to leave out. I think I got it right after much deliberation. Oddly enough when I was researching other good photographic  still lifes, I could not find much that was pure fine art. There are a ton of "commercial" still life applications but not many solid fine art photographic still lifes. This new series is up and running on my website. Please check it out: Gregfriedler.com

In other news, I will have an article coming out on my Naked series in Exposure Magazine. This should be out early in 2010 and will certainly be good "exposure" for lack of a better word.

Also in the New Year, I will post my new assignment portfolio. I am working with an incredible consultant to re-brand my work for ad agencies, designers, and magazines. 

I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year.

Lastly, remember that Stripped: Greg Friedler's Naked Las Vegas, a documentary by David Palmer, will begin airing in March 2010 on Showtime for 2 Years, yep 2 years! Stay tuned for additional details.

For Sale This Holiday Season

These two images are for sale for a short time only. You can get a signed, archival 11 by 17 inch inkjet print for only $225! Contact Greg for more info.

Commerce City

I went out to Commerce City on Friday night to a band jam session. They opened the garage door and this was what I found outside. It had snowed quite a bit that day. I shot a few different scenarios but this seems to be the best one!

Early Thanksgiving

I am working on a new set of "leftovers" imagery. My buddy Matt fixed us all an amazing Thanksgiving dinner three weeks before the actual event. These are the leftovers.

I am looking forward to hanging out with my parents over Thanksgiving and producing a new body of work in Milton, Mass. All images will be shot using my 4 by 5 camera. It is super fun to get back to film and large format!

I am very pleased to now be working with Paul Cava. Paul was Jock Sturges' first art dealer. You can see the work by going to: paulcava.com

Paul's amazing art can be viewed a: paulcavaart.com

Leftovers

I have been shooting "leftovers" for many years now and the project has changed over time. I now have two projects going: One is the "leftovers" of food and such and the other photos are still lifes of "leftovers" that are dead animals basically. I will work more on both of these here in Denver but also while I am home over Thanksgiving. Over Thanksgiving I will re-shoot the project called "Milton" named after the town where my parents reside in Massachussetts. Busy, busy, busy!

This has been a difficult project but I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Today I shot a still life of "leftovers" from Mile Hi Stadium where the Broncos play. And what is really cool is that I shot the still life in the snow. Dont know if you people have heard but Colorado has received a ridiculous amount of snow. It has been snowing non-stop now for well over two days! So anyway I will share some more photos from "leftovers" as I shoot them. 

From the Archives

Part of my "job" now is to show people work that has never been seen. My assistant and I have spent over 3 weeks re-working my archives, and we are not done yet! It is crazy how many photos I have taken in 20 or so years. In fact I am becoming empowered looking at all the older negatives, but the challenge is to showcase images from older projects. There are complete projects that beg to be published. Like LaLaLand or Nudes. LaLaLand is a project of 4 by 5 portraits made in black and white in the Summer of 1994. They are images of the people of Los Angeles, or the City of Angels. I will start sharing these images with you in a few weeks once I have located and scanned the relevant negatives. I shot the Nudes for over 15 years. I will scan in a bunch of these images and then look for a publisher to do a Monograph. The featured image is from the Nudes project. I like to think of this image as a new take on "Adam and Eve." 

Fellowship Posting:

Silver Eye Center for Photography invites photographers from across the globe to submit work to their Fellowship 2009 Competition. Please see the attached link  for further details!

http://www.silvereye.org/exhibitions.htm

Exquisite Color

This is a bit of an older image from "Exquisite Color." This project has been in the works for five years now and I thought I would share a few of my thoughts about this ever-evolving body of work. It is hard to finish this project because everywhere I go I see new things to shoot, but they rarely fit with the others. A lot of the early images were made in 2004 in New York City. Since then there are images in here from New Orleans, Las Vegas, and Colorado. People are always asking me how to make cohesive photographic projects and I always tell people that it is far from easy to make an original body of work. I struggle with this just like every other photographic artist. The key is to shoot often and then see what comes together. And you have to recognize that some projects come together easily while others like this color project, take a lot of time and patience. And what I have learned is that you have to stay open to where a project might lead you. Often it is not where you thought you would be, but that is the beauty of it all! I love making new images for this project and then seeing what is really strong and what really doesn't work. Of course it is hard to "let go", but in order to grow, you really must forget about what you already know and then see what you respond to, what appeals to you as a photographic artist. I am excited to go to New York in late October to continue shooting this project. I will see how that informs me. It is also cool because I have shot this project by now with three different cameras: The Canon G7, The Canon 5D, and as of late with the Canon 5D Mark 2. These all have varying resolutions so that keeps things interesting as well.