One Sunday afternoon the river came to us.
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in PORTRAITS
PORTRAITS
Mother Seen
in MOTHER, PORTRAITS, FILM, SEEN SESSIONS
One More Roll: Expired Delta 3200 Film
in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM
Jon gifted me a box of 10 rolls of expired Delta 3200 film for my birthday and I had a feeling I’d like it…
With a few minutes left in our session and a roll already shot I asked Janessa if I could shoot something a bit more experimental. Maybe nothing would turn out but maybe it would…
F22, Film as the Massage, and Images from "Lemme See" with Sadie Joy Muhlestein
When I shoot film, I shoot more.
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Pentax 645N with Alex Nibley
I’ve been craving something a bit more nimble, more responsive than my so-slow-they-forget-me Rolleiflex, something not square, something more intuitive…
Read MoreFree Treasure with Summer Murdock
…and the way the light hits her like it hits water is just one of them.
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Utah Family Portrait Adventure on Film & Review
We made our way up to Utah’s Snowbasin on opening day when the mountains were transformed to one of Sadie’s imagined snowy scenes and the location and togetherness made for a laid-back family portrait session adventure on film
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Seen Session Polaroids
in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM
Polaroid magic from Seen with Stacie. The scene- new moon Aquarius in January’s freeze. The elements- wood, water, air, fire, metal, women, laughter. “Tell me, my love, do you feel right? Do you feel charmed?”
Read MoreMedium Format + Fog
Inversion polluted Salt Lake offered surrealist inspiration for medium format portraits.
Read MoreGygi on Film
Snowy drive, hot drinks, a winter walk to the meadow with Gygi. A lil talking, a lil crying, a little screaming in the trees.
These last few years Gygi and I have both lost our parents, connected already, we’ve seen each other deeper as we’ve stumbled at the threshhold of death and experienced the strange rebirth that has come in its wake. Her deep presence. Her deep love of life. The way she inspires me to be. I love you Gygi.
Film notes:
Very foggy, snowy day- first snow. Shot rated at 200 pushed a stop on the Rolleiflex 6001.
Film notes:
Camera: Rolleiflex 6001 w 80 mm lens
Film: Portra 800 rated at 200 pushed 1 stop in development. So that means the ISO is set to 200 and then in development you do this THIS which adds a dollar to the cost. WORTH IT.
Lab: Standard scans at The Find Lab Scan with borders on Frontier
Dancers Haleigh Larmer and Megan O'Brien at Utah's Little Sahara State Park
Modern dancers and choreographer team Haleigh Larmer & Megan O’Brien at Little Sahara State Park, Utah
Read MoreStudio Portraits of Abstract Artist Emily Fox King
“Working with Ashley validates me as a professional and helps me present myself as a serious artist and entrepreneur.”- Emily Fox King
Read MoreSeen with Lacey Rogers
I offer Seen as a new portrayal. A somatic-focused way of showing up and showing, a body-lead, feels>looks witnessing experience resulting in photographs as reflections, as oracles, and symbols of what is and will never be again.
Read MoreSeen Outside: Errin in the Aspens
in FILM, SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS
“I loved the freedom of letting inspiration strike—of choosing the thing that felt right and not that was pre-determined. I loved the deep safety I felt while being completely exposed.
I am stunned and thrilled and think they are some of the most true images I’ve ever seen of myself.”
Read MoreFrom Clay to Form: Behind the Scenes of Joel Church's 'Uenus'
A hours long experience modeling begins with excited nerves and a lump of shapeless clay that becomes a figure in likeness that tells nothing of the nerves, sore boredom, and fascination with process while the experience itself foreshadows what will last (legacy and metal) and who won’t (flesh, thoughts, bone).
Read MorePortraits of Didi Von Boch at Point Reyes Beach, California
The first time Didi made portraits of me in Sedona for the Memory Cult gathering last year she hummed a song- over and over and over…
Read MoreSapphic Love on Film with Aubrey & Chloe
This is sapphic love with Aubrey and Chloe…
Read MoreNew Portrayal: The Unscripted Experience of Being Seen
This is New Portrayal
A body of work co-created with deconstruction worker women being ourselves, together. We’re curating new experiences with being seen, seeing, and offering a new take on the significance of image and the experience of portrayal.
Read MoreSilver Hair and Violets: Making a Portrait with Katie
“You are absolutely a master of light. I love your eye and the moments you told me to pause…You are a true artist.”- Katie
the arrow goes where it will go
I’ve had some pretty cool experiences in my life but this one really stands out.
A group of close friends hired me, met me out at the Salt Flats and when we got there the salt flats were flooded. Water everywhere. One of our cars got stuck, we had to get towed. We pivoted together, making something out of the unexpected- beyond original vision.
Creative results aren’t beholden to the initiations that bring them into life, anymore than we live genuinely when beholden to what our parents think we should be.
We
steady the bow
and the arrow goes
where it will go.
And that’s good enough.