Archive for October, 2009

Tommy Forbes

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Photos by Tommy Forbes, London, England.

It’s been a week since the last time I presented you with a selection of photographs to view.  Today I bring you Tommy Forbes from London England.  I’ve been meaning to get some of his work up for a few weeks now.  He was one of the first members of… »

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Peninsular Tales Vol. 1, by Dan Bass

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I got nice little package in the mail today from Dan Bass, you remember him from the spread we did last week on him.  If you didn’t see it click here to view our feature and see some of his great images.

Peninsular Tales is a small, self-xeroxed comic zine that Dan made awhile back.  Most… »

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Ryan Maclean

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Photos by Ryan Maclean, Vancouver, Canada.

Today’s photo selections come from Vancouver based photographer, Ryan Maclean.  Ryan is a 15 year veteran in the photographic arena and uses a variety of formats to capture his images, including his Blackberry.  He only submitted one photo the flikr group, but after digging through his photostream I had to… »

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Therese Brown

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Photos by Therese Brown, El Cerrito, California.

Today, I present to you the work of Therese Brown.  Therese is incredibly prolific in her photographic endeavors.  Her flikr account has almost 4,000 items.  No that isn’t a typo, 4,000.  I was unable to view everything on her flikr, I just don’t have the time, but over the… »

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Triangle Triangle’s Upcoming Book “Golden Triangle”

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The folks at Triangle Triangle are slated to release their second book in December.  Here is what they say on their site about it:
GOLDEN TRIANGLE
It’s coming soon. The last book, Common Denominators, featured work from seven photographers, 150 copies were made, priced at £7 and all sold out within one week. Golden Triangle features work… »

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Dan Bass

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Photos by Dan Bass, England.

Today I’ve prepared a rather large collection of photos for you viewing pleasure.  And they really are great, aren’t they?  These photos were made by English photographer, Dan Bass.  They belong to a series he calls, “Abandoned.”  It’s a series that he has been working on since the early eighties and… »

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Lena Kallberg

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Photos by Lena Kallberg, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lena Kallberg is a lo-fi photographer from Stockholm.  She uses many cameras, most of which are modified, and has several styles depending on the equipment she uses.  My favorites by her are her pinhole lith prints (pictured above).  The portrait that I chose to begin this small series is the… »

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Laura Burlton

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Photos by Laura Burlton, Houston, Texas.

Laura Burlton is a professional photographer based in Houston, Texas.  Her style is very diverse as are the cameras she uses.  It was truly difficult to pick these seven images for this spread, as she has so much great work to chose from.
Chosen from our flikr… »

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The Impossible Project Inspires Polaroid to Re-launch Instant Cameras

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Today came the news I never thought I would here.  Polaroid is re-launching some its Instant Cameras on a limited run and they are commissioning The Impossible Project to produce the film for them.  The Polaroid licensee, The Summit Global Group, and The Impossible Project held a joint press conference in Hong Kong today stating… »

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Reminder: Our New Domain, Flikr Group, and Facebook Group

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Just a friendly reminder that our domain has changed from seanstimac.com to thephotoplayground.com.  The domiain seanstimac.com will still forward you over to the new domain, but soon seanstimac.com will become the home of another project I plan on getting started.  For those of you who have linked to this site please change the link to… »

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