 | The Posies From recent shoot. |
 | Pallas Athene Model is Renee Lilley, Wardrobe Styling by Lana Jay Lackey |
 | PICA's TBA_2010 Here's a link to a sneak preview of the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's annual Time Based Media festival catalog cover before the printed version hits the streets. Of hundreds of photographs one of mine made the cover to brand this years TBA! The photo is of Noelle Stiles who will be performing 'Blanket' with Danielle Kelly. Here is a link to purchase TBA festival tickets. |
 | Housefire Really getting into making these environmental panoramics. |
 | Deelay Ceelay Delaney Kelly of Deelay Ceelay |
 | Curtis Knapp Meet Curtis Knapp, Portland entrepreneur, owner of Marriage Records, and member of the band Rob Walmart. |
 | Rebecca Lea Join my FB Page. |
 | MKE / Print work This is a link to see a tiny number of the shoots I did while branding MKE. I am the photographer on all of these, producer and art director on some, there are hundreds more including full spreads and video. |
 | Capitol Hill Block Party 2010 SO happy to see of hundreds, my photograph was chosen to brand this years Capitol Hill Block Party 2010 - "Seattle’s Premiere Celebration of Independent Culture"! Here's an ex. screen shot of their website, and my original pic (from last years' Jesus Lizard audience). The link will take you to purchase tickets to this years line up. |
 | Chung Nujen Recent shoot with designer Chung Nujen. |
 | Portland Monthly Spring 2010 Fashion Spread Sneek preview (an outtake) from C.Taylor's upcoming Spring 2010 fashion spread. |
 | New Video by Christine Taylor Video by Christine Taylor http://www.happyplayground.com Original music composed by D. Reuben Snyder Partially edited by Ian Joe Dutch |
 | Design Within Reach Project Much thanks to the entire crew who worked on this, Design Within Reach, MODA 3, and the beautiful Amelinda. Its coming. Design Within Reach apparel fashion project. |
 | Design Within Reach Project Finally back to work on the Design Within Reach Project that I dropped a while back. Here is a sneak peek. |
 | Music Coverage Tis' the season to let the world know I'm available for music coverage over the Spring and Summer months. Its so much fun I always do it! Here is a one of my fave pics of Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav at Pitchfork in Chicago. Please look through the links to see more. Capitol Hill Block Party 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyplayground/sets/72157621812402419/ Portraiture of musicians: http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyplayground/sets/72057594123972530/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyplayground/sets/72157620939133789/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyplayground/sets/72157620349426502/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyplayground/sets/72157621650311687/ |
 | Yellow Swans The famed and respected experimental band Yellow Swans went their separate ways last year, but they have one last CD coming out in 2010. This is an outtake from a recent shoot with them. |
 | J. Scappettone J. Scappettone is Jenifer, or Jen. She is a recognized scholar and author, poet and artist with a long list of books and publishings. Presently she is working as an intrructor at University of Chicago while also collaborating on a contemporary opera with a performing artist. I was commissioned to do a two day shoot with her in Chicago a few days ago. More photos on the way. This one is a personal fave. |
 | Lori Talley Had a most excellent home shoot with sound artist Lori Talley, in Chicago the other morning. This is a sneak preview of more to come. |
 | James Kloiber James is a fantastic designer and Art Director of Drumhead Magazine, a national niche magazine for professional drummers and musicians. His style incorporates his years of experience in music and often incorporates his unique illustration skills. |
 | Beauty Salon How nice it is to walk into a business and see photographs you've taken. Thats exactly what happened yesterday. This is a photo of two of the four prints hanging in Beauty Salon, made in collaboration with stylist Bjorn Nasset, and model Min Hee Lee. |
 | Sword & Fern together with Levis We did our shoot last week, but this week designer Emily Baker sent several pieces from her jewelry collection to stylist Leslie Lessin in NYC to be used in her new Levi's campaign. |
 | Heather Treadway on Etsy (website being redesigned) Completed a shoot today for fashion designer Heather Treadway (also a part of the musical trio Explode Into Colors). She is re-branding and in the midst of a re-design of her website to be launched in time for a large fashion event at Ace Hotel at the end of September. Her work can be described as functional graphic inspired geek chic for design minded individuals. |
 | Interview with Faythe Levine on BizBash Faythe Levine is the co-author of Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design, and creator of the film documentary by the same name. We did this shoot on location at her Milwaukee boutique called Paperboat. |
 | Chris Lael Larson I was assigned to collaborate on a portrait for this interview with artist Chris Lael Larson published yesterday gearing up for his opening at IGLOO Gallery. Chris is also a musician in Deelay Ceelay and is preparing for a national tour starting this Friday at Doug Fir. |
 | Portland Monthly Last weekend Portland Monthly Magazine had me shoot some at Portland's largest music festival, Music Fest Northwest. There are many fantastic photos of bands like Monotonix, Bad Brains, Blind Pilot, Builders and the Butchers, The Thermals, and more. |
 | Dawn Sharp From campaign catalog shoot last week for designer Dawn Sharp's upcoming 2010 Spring line. We shot on location at a Victorian mansion built in the late 1800's. The host's had a beautiful pet wolf who gazed on as we worked. It is mostly natural light with amber fill. |
 | Interview with David Hickey Christine Taylor photographed controversial and influential art critic David Hickey in Las Vegas. Author of two volumes of art criticism, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy / Fiction and culture writer for magazines such as Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Harper�s Magazine, and Vanity Fair / Curator of Beau Monde, in Santa Fe (2001); Las Vegas Diaspora (2007); and other exhibits |
 | Willamette Week Arts Issue Willamette Week featured a cover and 5 interior portraits they commissioned me to do, along side interviews with art philanthropists in Portland titled, 'Art Attack'. This photo is by Brandon Joseph Baker < http://www.brandonjosephbaker.com/home.html >. |
 | IGLOO Gallery Today I learned that I will be spending a one year in residence at one of Portland's best contemporary art spaces, IGLOO Gallery. It is a live/work space and means that I will be sitting on the board as a director and co-curating events and exhibitions with an impressive team of Northwest creators. I will also be using the space to make my own work as well as use as a photo studio - conveniently located between the Pearl District and Chinatown. |
 | Juxtapoz Magazine Melissa and James Buchannan, two phenominal screen printers and designers are featured in Juxtapoz Magazine this month (August). This portrait is one taken for the book that goes along with the documentary called Handmade Nation. I loved working with these two and just have so much respect for their work that I'm eternally flattered to have been asked to make these photos with them. I based the content on their personal character design style, and it is shot at their home using one large soft box bounced off of the wall. |
 | Makool Loves You fashion shoot Recent fashion shoot for PDX Pipeline with Makool Loves You and Time Bomb Vintage. |
 | Christine Taylor's Happyplayground This is a photo blog. You can read interviews with great photographers here, as well as read a variety of creative blog entries. My work will be here too. Oh yes, there are also photographs that have been dissected so you can learn lighting techniques too! |