Photography

New Photo Book: Apple Sweat

In Books, For Sale, Fray, Life, Photography, Travel on 8 August 2006 with Comments Off

What do you do when your trip to New York City just happens to coincide with the biggest heat wave since 1936? Make some photos, of course!
I took my favorite Lomo shots and put them together in a book I’m calling Apple Sweat: The 2006 Heat Wave from NYC Streets. Take a look!

JPG Issue 5 Published

In For Sale, JPG Magazine, Photography on 25 March 2006 with Comments Off

Tonight Heather and I published Issue 5 of JPG Magazine. This issue was a real labor of love for us.
The “Photography is Not a Crime” theme is very close to our hearts, and something we talked about a year ago when we were first starting the magazine. We left submissions for this issue [...]

My Flickr Top 20

In Flickr, Fun, Geek, Photography, Photos on 5 January 2006 with Comments Off

I try to be an intellectual. I try to an artist. But it turns out people just come around for the little dog photos.

This is a mosaic of the top 20 photos from my Flickr photostream, as picked by my fellow Flickrinos hitting that “favorite” button. Important stats:
10 little dogs
2 of my beautiful wife
2 zombies
1 [...]

JPGs in the Wild

In JPG Magazine, Photography, Photos on 4 January 2006 with Comments Off

JPG Magazine Issue 4 has been out for a couple weeks now, and the contributors are just starting to get their copies in the mail. This week, two of them took their copies out into the wild and photographed their subjects again with the magazine. And, honestly, it’s shit like this that makes this project [...]

New in JPG Magazine

In For Sale, JPG Magazine, Photography on 4 December 2005 with Comments Off

Heather and I just put the finishing touches on some great new stuff for JPG Magazine.

JPG Magazine Issue 4: No Theme is now available! For the final issue of our first year, we decided to take a break from the usual theme. We just asked for your best photos of 2005. And we got ‘em! [...]

Chawazek 2006

In For Sale, Photography, Powazek, San Francisco on 1 December 2005 with Comments Off

Heather and I put 12 of our favorite photos of San Francisco together and made a 2006 calendar. Here’s a fun game: See if you can guess which months are hers and which are mine. Get yours today!
See also: The Bug Calendar!

I suspect that I am part of a teaser campaign

In Flickr, Internet, JPG Magazine, Photography on 10 August 2005 with Comments Off

Today I received two very special surprises in the mail. Inside was the first glimpse of the dream of every Flickr user with more than a few photos online: If only I could order prints. Well, it looks like, very soon now, you’ll be able to.
(Full disclosure: My wife, the lovely and talented Heather Powazek [...]

Pearls of Photographic Wisdom

In Photography on 29 May 2005 with Comments Off

I remember when I got my first camera, a 126 cartridge Kodak, my dad gave me my first shooting advice: Make sure the sun is at your back, and hold your breath before hitting the shutter. I still do that today.
Since then, I’ve come up with some of my own bits of wisdom to remember [...]

Heather and I on Lulu

In Fun, JPG Magazine, Photography, Photos, Powazek on 3 May 2005 with Comments Off

Jason took this fabulous photo of Heather and I to help promote JPG Magazine. It’s currently in rotation on the Lulu homepage. Hooray!

Get Lost!

In JPG Magazine, Photography, Powazek on 11 April 2005 with Comments Off

The second issue of Heather’s and my labor of love photo maagazine has been published!
Issue 2 of JPG Magazine, the quarterly of brave new photography, is here! Inside you’ll find 43 photographic interpretations of the word “lost.” Also includes a set of powerful portraits by featured photographer Ryan Keberly of Detroit’s disposessed, as well as [...]