Slowly I’m working toward my goal. This is difficult this year with film projects moving and finishing up my book. I also have other writing to do and lots of reading. Of course there are other secret projects in the works. I hope you understand. When you are a one man shop a lot falls on your shoulders until funding is in place and a team can be constructed.

A lot of what I’m researching now is the impact of cell phones (texting), Facebook, twitter et. al.  (and company for the non latin speakers.  There is so little work done in this area but the need to understand the impact is great. Also propaganda is exploding in this country at a rate I never believed I see. Fact check EVERYTHING. I will continue to cover the art of propaganda.

I had a caught ask me how the Nazi’s controlled the German people. Good question. I explained there was a minister of propaganda to start with. Follow that with Gestapo enforcement, a level of fear was maintained. Kids enrolled in the Hitler Youth Movement and indoctrination was in place. Eugenics was unpopular so Hitler moved the clinic out into the country and they became the basis for the death camp. Seems Jews and some Gypsies and Catholics among others comprised the people Hitler felt were inferior. The scary part is Eugenics was born here in the USA and practiced for a limited time. Hitler made sure the US program would never get off the ground. Thanks God.

Here I go off topic. This photo is of an abandoned farm-house I stopped at on one of my many country drives. I shot these two years ago and I’m just now working with the images. More to come.

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I consider myself fortunate to have known him. The day I picked up the phone to call Uplift about the crazy idea of documenting these homeless people for a photo exhibition I was meet with enthusiasm and appreciation. Frank worked with the homeless to the very end of his life and taught us all how to truly give of ourselves and ask nothing in return.

My moral compass is pointing more to the north today for having known Frank. God bless you Frank A. Fiorini. Now rest with the angels. We will carry on and through that remember you every day of our lives.

Thank you Frank and God’s speed.

Here is my statement:

“The main force that drives my photography is my desire to see things as they truly are and not through the metaphor of language.  I feel language takes away our ability to see the uniqueness of the people and things that surround us every day.

I subscribe to Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Real.  Lacan argues inThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis that we must usethe Symbolic and the Imaginary to connect to the world around us and the primary tool is linguistics.  The Real is not the same thing as reality because our reality is composed of both the Imaginary and the Symbolic.  The Real is opposed to the Imaginary and stands outside the Symbolic.  In Lacan’s book, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954–1955 (W. W. Norton & Company, 1991) Lacan makes it clear that “there is no absence in the Real.”  To see the Real is to experience a thing for the first time.

Click to view slideshow.To me this says what constitutes the Real is something observed in total.  No filters blocking the view or imaginary ideas polluting the observation.  In Lacan’s Seminar XI he defines the Real as “the impossible because it is impossible to imagine, impossible to integrate into the Symbolic, and impossible to obtain.”

I strongly feel it is the job of the artist to reach past the obstacles and capture an image as close to the state of the Real as we can.  We bring it back and by showing it to others we give people the opportunity to encounter the Real even though it is shown through the interpretation of the artist.”

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Trilobite

I have started my 100 photos in 365 website. It is HERE. Please visit often. This image is TRILOBITE.

In keeping with the season.

Chair

There are several photographers that have used the iPhone as their capture tool. The resolution isn’t very good, no zoom (on mine anyway) no flash just kind of general Lomo camera. That’s what I find so interesting about it. You always have your phone so there just isn’t a reason to capture images right now.

I have fun in the editing department using a combination of Photoshop/Lightroom along with several standalone apps made for the Mac, iPhone or iPad. I haven’t seen the new iPhone but I hear the resolution is much improved and that would be good. I like having too much information so I can achieve my goals by taking away not puzzling over how to “fix” the photo. This shot is called “chair.”