Category Archive: on photography

what i want for my birthday

what i want for my birthday

It’s my birthday today. Hallelujah! I’ve made it through 27 years on this Earth. Last year, when I talked about my birthday, people sent the …

 

simone seol: hipGnotist

simone seol: hipGnotist

I was so delighted a couple months ago, when Simone Seol asked me to photograph her. I’d started following her through Havi, and was completely …

 

sex. love. liberation. gorgeousness.

sex. love. liberation. gorgeousness.

Waaaay back in September 2011 (which seems almost like a lifetime ago at the moment), I traveled to Portland for a flurry of photo shoots …

 

i believe in kindness: a free wallpaper

i believe in kindness: a free wallpaper

I’ll be honest: my favorite photos are always the ones I take in the Northwest. It’s something about the light. The cloud cover and northern-ness …

 

i make the rules (but i tend to forget that)

i make the rules (but i tend to forget that)

Ever since I participated in Rally, things have been different. Not different on the surface. Different deep, deep down. Different in the most subtle ways, …

 

a terrifying commitment to doing less

a terrifying commitment to doing less

This pattern isn’t new. It goes so far back, I don’t know when it originated. I do a lot. A lot for me. I go …

 

a feminist photographer’s stance on photoshop

a feminist photographer’s stance on photoshop

I’ve hemmed and hawed about whether editing photos is something I should do. Not color correcting and cropping; those are things I do with lots …