TOM CLARK: Praying for tomorrow / Blue alert / Scaffold (2560)

[Untitled]: photo by Audsadang Satsadee, 6 May 2560

#Iraq A displaced Iraqi girl carries her sister as they flee their homes in northwestern Mosul neighbourhood of Musharifah. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 May 2017

#Nepal Buddhist prayer flags are seen in front of the Mount Everest range from Tengboche some 300kms north-east of Kathmandu. Photo @PrakashMathema: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 May 2017

#India A pedestrian walks through a dust storm at the Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati in Allahabad. Photo @sanjaykanojia07: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 May 2017

#South Sudan A Sudanese refugee cooks for the the Community Night Watchers in Doro refugee camp. Photo @AlbertGFarran: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 May 2017

A doorman wears a face mask as he stands outside the entrance to an office building in Beijing, Friday, May 5, 2017. A dust and sandstorm that caused air quality indices in China's capital to soar on Thursday and forced authorities to issue a blue alert on air pollution began to subside on Friday morning.: photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP, 5 May 2017

GQ (2560)

You are waiting to hear my personal situation.

You want immediacy, to feel the personal quality.

You want to be moved. This is 2559, expiring.
The day is breaking in the disfigured street.

You want an exciting, stirring event of some kind,

Something to make you feel more alive.

You want an introverted admission of some kind.

You want to hear it from a well-defined, interesting

Individual. You want the work to be a homogeneous,

Self-contained drama. You don't want to
Have to look things up. You want the single self-

Contained drama to be made up entirely of

A series of smaller dramas, each of which will

Move toward its own crescendo, now, in this moment,

In 2560. You are prepared for anything. You're ready for

The loaded, forced, even violent

Things you will be hearing. You anyway want everything

Bent on immediate effect, on surprise

And stupefaction. You want novelty for novelty's

Sake. You want the piquant, the extraordinary,

Anything that stimulates the nerves. You want to feel

A mysterious apprehension, like in a thriller

Composed by a crazy person. You want atmosphere.

This is 2560. Your tears are crocodile tears.

You want Brad Pitt to be eaten by crocodiles.

Anything to keep you awake, to make

You feel more alive. You want to watch every bite.

A group of migrants who said they were from Djibouti and Somalia follow railway tracks towards the Canada-U.S. border. By Chris Wattie: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 4 May 2017

Blue..: photo by Audsadang Satsadee, 26 April 2560

Scaffold

West Buckeye Road, Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 18 February 2017

Downtown Minneapolis, no. 6 | by GC_Dean

Downtown Minneapolis, No. 6. Minneapolis, Minnesota.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 March 2017

Loma Linda Neighborhood, Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 23 April 2017

East Indian School Road, no. 2 | by GC_Dean

East Indian School Road, No. 2. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 23 April 2017

East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 31 March 2017

Botas Juarez, South Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 7 January 2016

Evening on West Van Buren Street | by GC_Dean

Evening on West Van Buren Street, Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 4 October 2016

Me with 4x5 and My Lighting Kit for Comicon | by GC_Dean

Me with 4x5 and My Lighting Kit for Comicon. My wife's portrait of me using a Sunpak Auto 30DX flash, set to manual and strapped inside the paper lantern ($4.99 from IKEA). Here it's being fired remotely by my D7000. I attached the remote to my 4x5 for some illumination on-location at Phoenix Comicon.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 5 June 2014

I have a long, passionate interest in photography and its influence on culture and society. I'm interested that a photograph represents memory in a way that is much more concrete and immediate than the images in our heads. At the same time, the photograph represents the world in ways that are new, subjective and always context-dependent.

So that means that irony is good in my mind.

I teach digital photography as well as traditional, wet-lab, black and white photography at a community college in a Phoenix suburb. Years ago, though, I put a flash on my camera, and I was astounded at how much pictorial power that gave me. Opening the shutter in synch with that burst of light opens up new worlds and allows me to be a picture-maker.

So now I own a couple of cheap radio remote triggers and use them to synch a couple of old strobes. I like being able to photograph on my own, without assistants, carrying what I need. It is photography's ability to record the individual's point of view, which, when clearly stated, make images worth stopping to look at. Finding that voice, in the midst of modern media, boring conventionality, and budget and time constraints, is really the challenge. Finding that voice is also a very compelling problem.

I use Flickr as a way to make and show sketches about light, color and pictorial structure. I do this under the pretense of creating a visual document of traces of humanity and decay in Phoenix, Arizona, which is a “modern” western American city. The democratization of image-making has long been a central interest in photography. Publishing these “sketches" is a way to participate in the photographic process of discovery and invention as well as an immediate reach to an audience.

Dean Terasaki, 2014

praying for tomorrow...

Bulgaria walkabout...praying for tomorrow... #walkabouttheworld #fujifilmxt2 @viiphoto: image via Ron Haviv @ronhaviv, 5 May 2017

Sofia walkabout...Dusk colors piercing through the spring night... #walkabouttheworld #fujifilmxt2 @viiphoto: image via Ron Haviv @ronhaviv, 4 May 2017

Dead Men Mugging

@SpeakerRyan and the House pass Republicans American Health Care Act bill at the Capitol. Bill now goes to The Senate #AHCA #Obamacara: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 4 May 2017

When you study the faces, they're not all celebratory. But #Trump got his belt notch. @gettyimages via @washingtonpost #healthcare #ACHA: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 4 May 2017

What if I told you... I photoshopped the same face onto every man behind Trump. Would you have noticed if I hadn't said anything? #GOPclones?: image via Amanda Holland @AwkwardHolland, 4 May 2017

Surreal end to today's White House briefing. After OMB director speaks for a half an hour, @PressSec leaves the room.: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 2 May 2017

ICYMI: President Trump returns to New York for the first time since taking office, as locals protest his politics: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 May 2017

Political Cartoon U.S. Trump North Korea Pyongyang Trump Tower

What Trump thinks about during briefings: cartoon by David Horsey / Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2017

[Street cat, Taiwan]: photo by YL.H, 5 May 2017

home entertainment was always her wish...(Carly-mercury house) | by Aces & Eights Photography

Home entertainment was always her wish ... (Carly - mercury house): photo by William, 27 April 2017

It's still the "City of Trees" no matter what that water tower says now | by rickele

It's still the "City of Trees" no matter what the water tower says now. Looking south from the 8th floor of the Department of Social Services, State Office Twin Towers, Sacramento, California: photo by Rick Ele, 2 May 2017