April 13, 2013
Added an edited version of Around the House, a body of work I did way back in 2007 to the Archives section of my website. As my thesis show opens in five days, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I came to make the work I’ve been making. Around the House was a huge step in my development. Though a lot of things have changed in my work since I was 21 and living in Brooklyn, I can see the trajectory between this work and my MFA thesis work pretty clearly. I’ll publish my thesis work on my site the day the show opens.

Added an edited version of Around the House, a body of work I did way back in 2007 to the Archives section of my website.

As my thesis show opens in five days, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I came to make the work I’ve been making. Around the House was a huge step in my development. Though a lot of things have changed in my work since I was 21 and living in Brooklyn, I can see the trajectory between this work and my MFA thesis work pretty clearly.

I’ll publish my thesis work on my site the day the show opens.

3:12pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayid0G4b
(Notes: 8)
  
Filed under: my life My Pictures college NYU brooklyn janna ireland 
May 24, 2012
Union Square, 2003 Have I posted this before? This photograph was the pinnacle of my brief career as a street photographer. I dug it up from an old hard drive to add to an artist’s talk I’m giving to my undergrads.

Union Square, 2003

Have I posted this before? This photograph was the pinnacle of my brief career as a street photographer. I dug it up from an old hard drive to add to an artist’s talk I’m giving to my undergrads.

12:48am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayM2ORbn
(Notes: 3)
  
Filed under: My Pictures college my life new york photography union square black and white 
April 10, 2012

Outtakes from Around the House, 2007

I’m making work about my relationship with Joe for the first time in years, and decided to take another look at some of the work I made with him in my senior year of college. I edited these photographs out of the final project—they have been seen by maybe five people ever—but they hold up a lot better than much of the work that I actually used. These four do, anyway; the four with Joe that I’m not showing you are godawful.

I almost didn’t post these, but this has become a Tumblr that is mostly about my work, and dealing with my work here is becoming part of my practice. If I want to figure out how these relate to what I’m doing now I need to put them where I can see them.

8:48pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayJSzQIf
(Notes: 9)
  
Filed under: my life My Pictures me joe college photography 
March 27, 2012
blast from the past XIV

Here is a blog entry where I post an old blog entry about reading old blog entries, which is double-meta or something.

Sometimes I think being so interested in my own past is a stupid waste of time, but then I stumble upon an entry like this one that is totally perfect for my current state of mind. Occasionally, I forget that I truly know and love myself, so it’s important that I write myself reminders. I don’t really write about my inner life anymore (at least not publicly), but I sure am glad that I did when I was 20.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006…

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12:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayIe7UT6
(Notes: 6)
  
Filed under: my life blast from the past college 
February 7, 2012
One of the things I’ll miss when people stop using film altogether is the joy of finding an old, mysterious roll of film, processing it, and finding record of days I’d totally forgotten. I just turned in three such mystery rolls and ended up with pictures I took of my friends in 2003 and 2004 (Lilly and Garrett, you’re in there, too, as are Ben and Jessica). I thought my personal archive of that time was complete, but it turns out it’s still growing.

One of the things I’ll miss when people stop using film altogether is the joy of finding an old, mysterious roll of film, processing it, and finding record of days I’d totally forgotten.

I just turned in three such mystery rolls and ended up with pictures I took of my friends in 2003 and 2004 (Lilly and Garrett, you’re in there, too, as are Ben and Jessica). I thought my personal archive of that time was complete, but it turns out it’s still growing.

8:23pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayG4B5Xb
(Notes: 11)
  
Filed under: My Pictures NYU college my friends my life photography jhg 
February 6, 2012
It is old old old work. Work so old that my last name is still Washington on the website it appears on. I was 18 when I made those pictures. You can see them here.

It is old old old work. Work so old that my last name is still Washington on the website it appears on. I was 18 when I made those pictures. You can see them here.

9:01pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgayG11Q8a
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: my life My Pictures college NYU 
April 26, 2011
I read that Friendster is deleting all their content next month, so I thought it would be fun to sign in and check out my old profile. It was not fun—Friendster is awful, and that’s why it got left behind. I am glad I got a chance to prevent some silly pictures of my 18-year-old self from falling into the void, though.

I read that Friendster is deleting all their content next month, so I thought it would be fun to sign in and check out my old profile. It was not fun—Friendster is awful, and that’s why it got left behind. I am glad I got a chance to prevent some silly pictures of my 18-year-old self from falling into the void, though.

10:19am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay4dd--q
(Notes: 3)
  
Filed under: college friendster my life news tech me 
March 18, 2011
A page from a photo comic I did in my senior year of college about my whirlwind romance with Joe and living in Brooklyn (that article I posted earlier about gentrification brought to mind my years in Park Slope and I dug this thing out of the archives). I miss making comics! Summer project?

A page from a photo comic I did in my senior year of college about my whirlwind romance with Joe and living in Brooklyn (that article I posted earlier about gentrification brought to mind my years in Park Slope and I dug this thing out of the archives). I miss making comics! Summer project?

2:03pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay3hDaTC
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: my pictures my life joe brooklyn new york college 
March 6, 2011
blast from the past XII

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

I think the boy I am in love with was fired from Kim’s. Sounded that way from the employee gossip I was listening in on while I browsed today.

And I have to miss the David Byrne lecture tonight cause I have a test in ASL and can’t skip.

At this rate, I will never be married.

Four years later, I did get married, to another boy who worked at another video store. I should have skipped that sign language test to see David Byrne—I don’t remember a thing I learned in that class, anyway.

12:12am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay3RBRxR
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: my life college blast from the past new york 
February 28, 2011
Lovely Collier Schorr collage on the cover of this quarter’s Aperture. In college, I couldn’t take enough time off work to do an internship (cue internal grumbling about privilege, etc., etc.), so I set up a part-time, uncredited, unpaid internship with the book design firm that puts together each issue of Aperture. It was a great time, and gave me some funny name-droppy stories, like: once Sylvia Plachy accidentally ate my tuna sandwich once I got super drunk on tequila shots at a holiday party with Doon Arbus

Lovely Collier Schorr collage on the cover of this quarter’s Aperture.

In college, I couldn’t take enough time off work to do an internship (cue internal grumbling about privilege, etc., etc.), so I set up a part-time, uncredited, unpaid internship with the book design firm that puts together each issue of Aperture. It was a great time, and gave me some funny name-droppy stories, like:

  • once Sylvia Plachy accidentally ate my tuna sandwich
  • once I got super drunk on tequila shots at a holiday party with Doon Arbus

9:59am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoTgay3KZab-
(Notes: 6)
  
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