VENEER – Rally Bikers
This issue of VENEER represents the diversity of bikers through the people who keep the spirit and legacy of the community alive. The style is unrelenting black and white images that reveal texture and detail beyond the casual glance by Michel Leroy PHOTOGRAPHER.
Meeting Rally Bikers as we pass on the street, in a parking lot or at a car wash, I photograph riders in a portable studio to capture that moment just after we meet, that point of simple truth while the shared humanity is still in our eyes. The studio serves to remove visual distractions and allows pause for a more intimate portrait, a brief moment to reveal the truth and the veneer of identity.
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A few nights ago I was talking with an aspiring young photographer at an AdhesiveNYC event aboard the improbably wonderful Fryingpan along the West Side highway. The soft July air stirred with the swaying of the boat as hundreds of energetic creatives mingled and spoke of talent. This newly-minted shooter outlined some of her possible career paths in New York City and asked what I thought she should do. It was textbook “When I get to NY I will _______!”. I can remember my own plans with clarity from those intoxicating days just ten years ago.
I suggested key insights earned over a decade of shooting in NY that might help her choose the most direct career path. Whatever her choices were regarding how and when, I suggested she read a fantastic Malcolm Gladwell article, “Late Bloomers” in the October 20th, 2008 issue of The New Yorker. The emergence of talent is an eternal question that Gladwell explores with the depth and skill New Yorker readers love him for.
“…sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it’s just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.” – GladwellIf you find yourself wandering, this article is well worth the time. Exploration vs Experimentation.
Michel Leroy
Here is a link to some of Paul Nicklen’s fantastic photography on NPR’s Picture Show. As an avid National Geographic reader I always love his arctic imagery. Check it out.
Paul Nicklen
With the 2010 census rapidly approaching I was struck by Ben Baker’s American Youth project.
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
-David Ogilvy
Rankin Photographer
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Jorge Colombo has been doing a series for the New Yorker with iPhone images that he manipulates using the App “Brushes“ Check it out. He’s having lots of fun breaking the rules… and so should we.
Jorge-Colombo
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I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new. – Ernst Haas
So few artists do really interesting conceptual work with a freshness that stands apart. Horacio Salinas, however is a photographer who sees new things in the commonness of our daily lives and objects.
Horacio Salinas
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I was talking to one of my friends and hit upon some really fresh action/sports photography by Minnesota born photographer, Todd Williams.
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