dealing with vagaries

Right angles and palm trees...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:12:00 +0000

The geometry of Gulu (Uganda).

Live wires in Lira...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:00 +0000

Lira, Uganda that is - home to a highly-charged dance party.

"the electric slide"

canons
of distant heat lightning
blossom as electric flowers
dangling
over a dance
floor packed
with thirty men to every woman.

as the rain tumbles
down from those ionized petals
I can't imagine each bump
and every grind
is safe from the suspect
wiring of distorted
bass and conductive pools
which tremble to the beat.

Lo-fi = hi-fun...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:44:00 +0000

iPhone photos.

B+W, cont'd...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:37:00 +0000

In keeping with the aesthetic of my last post - I thought I'd toss up a portrait I shot last weekend.

Late night interiors...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Two images I came across tonight in an old folder from my "Travel Anonymous" series. A random hotel room in Australia from an assignment in 2003. I remember I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't remember where I was - just too much time on the road...

AC360 in DRC in PDN...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Photo District News homepage - an image I shot of Anderson Cooper and virologist Dr. Nathan Wolfe in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

Seasonal seaspray...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:43:00 +0000

North Carolina's coast, following Thanksgiving turkey. Projectile droplets. Splayed-out swimmers.

A bit on bytes...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:46:00 +0000

Photo District News article - Diving into Digital.

y = 1/x

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:12:00 +0000

I find the asymptote heartbreaking. Always reaching, never realizing. Infinite / never rest.

Yo playa' - es la playa...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Barcelona - the darks, the lights...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:14:00 +0000

Paella and pedestrians...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:31:00 +0000

Wandering through Barcelona's streets on a shoot for Singapore Airlines.

See you there?

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Very few places are as visually rich as northern Uganda. It's the perfect place to dig in and cut your teeth on a powerful story with the ability to effect change. I'll be there February 28 - March 13, 2010 teaching a photography workshop through the fantastic folks at Momenta Workshops. For more details and to sign-up please check out this link:

Momenta Workshops: Photography as a Force of Change

Some work of mine from Gulu, Uganda and surrounds, March 2005.

High above an unsuspecting herd of elephant...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:33:00 +0000

Sometimes you wish you never knew the story behind the image...click here to see why...

Yoohoo. Uhaul?

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:11:00 +0000

Back home in D.C. Half of my house has the echo of empty wood-floors. My brother moved up to a new place in NYC this week and we're renting out our house starting Sept. 1st. I'll probably float between NYC and DC for a couple months before I decide where to settle - nice to change things up!

Venerable and vending...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:42:00 +0000

Japan. And Japan.

Kyoto and surrounds...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:34:00 +0000

Raindrops on a bullet train window don't stick around too long.

Fish in a barrel...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Underwater. On land.

Love haunts...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:34:00 +0000

In the color space that only tungsten and neon in combination can produce.

Check out this tragically beautiful documentary ("The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief") about the host/hostess clubs of Osaka.

Far East foliage...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:41:00 +0000

Kyoto. Forest.

Today in Osaka...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:54:00 +0000

It's funny to think the things we photograph actually happen. Discrete slices of time, forever distilled.

My new national past time...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:52:00 +0000

There's nothing like watching two morbidly obese men in fancy diapers slap each other around. Er, I mean sumo wrestle. The slo-mo replays are not to be missed - it's like you can see every chunk of stew they ever ate, every bowl of noodles they couldn't refuse, rippling across their thighs like mini-tsunamis. I'd take it over baseball everyday of the week and twice on Sunday!

Ads in Asia...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:34:00 +0000

The wheels hit the tarmac this morning in Singapore after 24 hours from NYC via Frankfurt. My traveling companies were the ever-reliable Ambien, a couple of drinks, baseball cap pulled over the eyes and two deeply lodged earplugs.

Out here shooting television commercials for Singapore Airlines, one in town here, the other in Japan. A la Bill Murray/Lost in Translation - "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time..."

The detailed city...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:15:00 +0000

I always find images more intriguing without context...sometimes complex images work, other times it's good to go back to the basics.

Lightly lit light...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:04:00 +0000

I love light in all its iterations. I'll take a dense urban environment in the late afternoon over just about any other scenario. If you keep your eyes open, you can wander into spots that look like they were custom lit for you on a movie set. But in reality, they're just the perfect confluence of reflected and refracted rays.

NYC. April 2009.