I'm as handy with a camera as I am with a hammer, pencil or mouse. Having spent most of the early 90s in the darkroom, I tend to approach photography from a traditionalist's standpoint, but am adept at current digital processes. I not only know what the "burn/dodge" tool in Photoshop does — but also where it came from.
All that said, my photo work is too often integrated in other media — design, building, etc., so my portfolio is fairly scattered. Below are a few excerpts, but you might be just as wise to wander over to one of my many Instagram channels: hlwimmer, norcalmod, cyanovox, and redneckmodern; Flickr — much of which is architecturally based; or a few discrete PDFs on specific projects inked below:
Charlie Brown: I was fortunate enough to be tapped to photograph the installation of Richard Serra's Charlie Brown for Gap Inc. and Don Fisher. It was pretty epic. Playing with the symmetry and juxtaposition of the before-and-after installation visages (and large vs. small aspects of the work vs. the installation team), the photos were shot in tandem with PBS's Art21 series. There's a VHS video of it somewhere.
Robertson-Ceco: Tandem with my design work — and in partnership with Ted Bluey at Oh Boy — I photographed the metal-building company from the inside-out. On his shoot, we purposefully shot very low-fi print film (vs. the more typical transparency... in 1998, digital photography was not yet "a thing"). The result was a very genuine aesthetic that paired with the concepts for the annual report for the following two years.
Growing Up Happy is a collection of casual portraits captured over the years... mostly of a very personal nature.
Go West chronicles a 1995 road-trip over 16,000 miles in a 1963 Galaxie 500. I still had hair ... and a 50s era twin-lens Rolleicord given to my by a photo mentor, George Nan at VCU.
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