Yesterday I was out wandering around taking pictures. I hadn’t been down to the Jefferson Memorial in a long time so I made my way over, walking around the West side of the tidal basin. After spending a few minuets watching people and taking a few pictures I headed back around on the East side to complete the loop and head home. While walking I looked back across to the Jefferson Memorial and remembered that Henri Cartier-Bresson had taken a photo somewhere around here. Read More
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN’s FUCK YOU ALL show in San Francisco, with special guest Shepard Fairey from Burning Flags Press on Vimeo.
When I first got into photography I was inspired by two things. Punk rock and skateboarding. I quickly realized that the person who was taking some of my favorite photos of both was Glen E. Friedman. He’s one of my early influences and someone who I really respect.
Water#1 from Bryan Whitson on Vimeo.
Not long after moving to DC following grad school, I started working on photos of the surfaces of water. They are not really about the place they were shot (which was mostly the tidal basin near the Jefferson Memorial) so much as simply the beauty of water and the way it looked totally different from one shot to another and one day or week to another. I worked on them on and off for a year or two, but put them on the back burner. Read More
My co-worked Allen Hopper and I are both the proud owners of Mercian frames. We finally got around to taking some photos of them down by the White House this afternoon. The pictures above are of both of them together and below, mine by itself. Check out Mercian Cycles in Derby, England. They are some great bikes. Read More
Yesterday afternoon I was on my way home when I took the last frame on the roll of film in my M6. When I started to rewind the film I didn’t have the release lever pushed all the way over and as I turned the rewind knob, I pulled the film off of the spindle in the film cartridge. When I got home I grabbed an empty film canister and headed to a closet. I had to get under a blanket to be sure no light was getting through, and then pull the film out to my camera and roll it so I could put it in the canister. Hopefully I managed to keep the film from being exposed and the lab can still process this roll for me. There’s some stuff from our trip to Florida for Christmas that I don’t want to lose. Read More
I’ve used several cameras of different shape, size, format and practicality. Currently I shoot with a Leica M6, a Nikon D80 and a Canon G10. Each has it’s own use, strength and weakness in terms of the kind of work I do and my style of taking pictures. In a perfect world I would love to have just one camera that I can use for everything. It would need to be something that feels and operates like a rangefinder, is as fast and high quality as a DSLR, compact and easy to use as a digital point and shoot, with a fast lens. Such a camera is my white whale.
I took this photo sometime in late 2000 when I was in grad school. Our class went to NYC with a professor to go on several studio visits at artist’s lofts. I remember it as a really nice cool day so I think it was in the fall semester, but I can’t be sure at this point. As we were heading down the stairs to the next loft in the building, I saw this view from an open window in the stairwell. I thought it was okay when I developed the film and I made a couple of prints in the darkroom. When I remembered I had taken this picture in the fall of 2002, close to a year after the attacks, I pulled out the negative and scanned it. The meaning and importance of it had completely changed.
Kellee and I went to Colorado for my brother Chris and his lady Michelle’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. I had only been to Winter Park, where they live and got married, in the winter to snowboard. Seeing it in the summer was awesome. The ceremony was on top of the mountain and everyone had to take the chair lift up and back down. Having ridden them many times before I wasn’t really scared, but when there is no snow under you it’s a lot more intimidating. Especially coming down. Kellee did okay even with her fear of heights. I was proud that she didn’t have to use the “Chicken truck” to get up there. I was on family and wedding party duty so I really only shot candid photos all weekend. Even then, not really that many. I wanted to be a part of everything and not have to take pictures of it, even so I got some pretty good ones. They are in a set on my Flickr page. I have more that I shot on film, but I haven’t taken them to the lab yet. Several rolls now to get processed.
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