dealing with vagaries

Over the Atlantic...

jeff@jeffhutchens.com (dealing with vagaries...) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:25:00 +0000

“measures of mercury”

1000
1000
1000
feet above silent
crust
I cruise at altitude,
bathed in the exhalation of others.
while warning whispers
staccato blush our aura.

I want to crawl
through the plexiglass.
I want to stand on the flexing wing
before I dive
through layers of atmosphere.
before I plummet
through layers of sparse molecules
and gaps that can’t be shaken by sound.

I would eventually land in the sea
somewhere between two continents,
irretrievable
and impacted
into my own particular
ether.

and during this night
while a stranger
sleeps touching
my elbow
I’m consumed with eating
my own death.
I want to ingest my own ether
as it drifts back upwards from the sea,
unconstrained by any force
and too finely/finally
purified
to be noticed by gravity.

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.