objectifying my Negatives

MyNegatives

This time it will be calm, when people claim they are interested in photography they click faster than they read it or even think it. Coupling personal images I took within common feelings and time periods. Specially a time when I did not think much about what I did beyond the technical aspects. I hope to bring something new to your plate.

I started to work recently with a Canon 8800F scanner with the object of digitalizing 100`s of slides of my father. But till there completely cataloged in the correct order in a binder, they wont get close to the chaos that digitalizing becomes.

So my most precious "object book" came out of a box and on to the scanner.

5 years of compulsive black and white negatives, dating 2001/2007, mostly include the world around me. Bouncing from portraits to landscapes, Chile Argentina and Mexico.

40hrs a week in the dark room did not make me a lab genius, more of a mess maker with a beautiful mess.

Most of the film is Kodak 400TX, shot with a rebel Ti and a 28-80 lens. Some times a 1982 Canon AE-1 that behaved better in the rain, snow, mud and with the face of who ever wanted to start some trouble.

My lab work was not constant, most of the time I was accused of doing it wrong. The more I noticed that who ever was telling me this did not do much to help them selves, the less affected I was about their remarks. This also came from people who defined photographs as good or bad...

Now that I see it in perspective I should retake this BW obsession.

Think less and shoot more, or shoot more and think less...at the end of the day it all comes down to what intention/context you build around your work.

Pallor Mortis

The last short short I made.
When Adobe CS5 comes out I will re-edit.... but for now it works.

It was an idea I wanted to share for about 4 months now. Seems these Ideas will be snow balling.
3 more are in preproduction.

I know they will all be black and white shot on the canon 5d Markii, wide lenses, and fear makers...

Pallor Mortis from Michael Wright on Vimeo.

Collaboration with Studio 473

Six Words from Michael Wright on Vimeo.

···There is something odd about the hands in all of these images, seems like they don't belong to the portrayed. In a way seems like their hands are strangers imposing the written text message.···

for a better view go to vimeo.

Last "cinco de Mayo" people in the states were partying what they think is some kinda special day. (Its all make believe).

While in the bar Zilch Guanajuato Mexico, there was a fund raiser for eStudio473

http://studio473.wordpress.com/estudio-who/

I got invited by Katie Clancy to get my gear down to the bar with a last minute call to set up a photo booth.

Themed on Hemingway's six word story.

My instructions were to ask people to write down their life story in six words.

Even though most could not count to six nor build a sentence, I just went with the flow.

Interesting none the less were the

resources people used. Quotes, words with comas, scattered words, upside down words, english,

spanish, latin...

Giving people more freedom gave people more ability to share what was on their mind at the moment

and how they wanted to be portrayed.

So, to avoid being judgmental, I ignored all the text on the slips of paper. I knew the minute

I winked, gagged or laughed at what ever was written the portrait would be ruined, leaving me to

deal with the soft focus of the 50mm 1.4f in very low light. Gave the sense that its not all there, we must fill

in the blanks.

·Try harder to read the text or try harder to read the face. ·

With three external flashes. Cheap cellophane acted as gels, blue, read and green. Knowing that I would

convert to black and white I wanted more

information to play with when choosing the low key or high key of the skin of each individual.

Last time I sat up a photo booth I dealt with strangers on the street for last years Noche de la Fotografia for PHE,

and it was completely different than

dealing with people you see constantly down town, you nod your head they nod back... but this time I got a couple names down.

More info on their Adobe Youth Voices Project in Guanajuato.

Rebeca Bees`s Flikr. showing how their classes take place.

Music on the video is from our friends The Sharpies from San Miguel de Allende, you can se the original video of the song I get around on youtube.

Soon there will be more to come from the Sharpies.