Creatives Project - Jeremy Fish

King of San Francisco?  Nope, that’s just artist Jeremy Fish (King of North Beach perhaps?), whom I had the pleasure of photographing from atop Telegraph Hill – though it does kind of look like he might be in a television news station or something!  You really should click on the image to see it bigger.  Anyway, I had a lot of fun photographing this awesome artist – and chatting about our similar backgrounds from upstate New York and the outrageous price of housing in San Francisco and the Bay Area in general.  I still can’t quite figure out how creative people can create and live in this city!

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Creatives Project - Mike Simi

I love Mike Simi's work and, when I approached him, all I could think about was how good that shot of his sock puppet is on his web site - -the one where someone is being eaten by his artwork. After he agreed to do the shoot, I had the hardest time concepting what I was going to do with the image - I could not get that image out of my head! I really wanted to shoot outdoors to get away from that look and feel but it had been pouring rain here in Seattle. I saw this pinata unicorn on our counter back lit by the rain and I knew I wanted to use it - but only if I could find the perfect alleyway and no rain but a somewhat interesting sky. Voila! All the pieces came together and this image was born.

Creatives Project - Mark Atomos Pilon

This past weekend, I ventured north of the border to Vancouver, British Columbia to photograph the amazing artist, illustrator, painter, and all around super nice guy Mark Atomos Pilon. He cheerfully opened his doors to myself and my family, our kids played, we made some photographs.  I borrowed the astronaut helmet from one of my daughter's little friends (thanks Oliver, Michael, and Lisa!) and thankfully Mark provided the ray gun!

Creative Series - 179

 

This is the artist 179 (a.k.a. Angelina Villalobos).  I love her murals, the first one of hers I had seen was the gigantic one she worked on here in Belltown.  I love the way her animals weave and bob -- I thought it would be fun to make 179 a whimsical creature as well!  She was excited to do it so my 4-year old daughter and myself were off to have fun with paper mache!  Today, we set about to shoot -- we did two set-ups: one in front of one of her murals on lower Queen Anne and the other over in Golden Gardens.  I wanted to get away from the stereotype of street artists being photographed in front of some of their murals.  I love the 'Where the Wild Things Are' aesthetic of the woodsy image but also love the set-up in the more urban image.  What are your thoughts?

Creatives Series - Nat Damm

Artist and poster designer Nat Damm.