NEWSFLASH: I am about to head off into the unknown. That is, I am going on a motorbike adventure with my cameras. Living off the thing. No particular destination. I figure that while the forthcoming voyage is essentially for finding the right professional work now that I have graduated, it also is a photoethnographic excursion, and hopefully somewhere in there might end up with some interesting photographs of some of the interesting and wonderful people from MM. If anybody is interested, I have set up a blog at
http://travel.colinshaw.com.
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Let me say thank you to some wonderful people that I have met on MM. I never knew how much I needed to learn about myself, or how much I could learn to see from my old hobby of photography. I never could have imagined that some of the most meaningful and closest people in my life would come this way. I have been inspired and have grown in ways I could never have believed. My life has felt like it has been falling apart for the last year. I don't know how I would have survived without the diversions and genuine kindness of people with this shared interest. Thank you.
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I just like photographing people. It's fun. I learn something. And I like being blanketed by lovely women. I squeeze my eyes tight and smile.
My inspirations are Newton, Witkin, Einhorn. My work isn't much like that, but I like that sort of stuff. I also like a hell of a lot of awesome work that I see by photographers and models on MM. Images should be suggestive and expressive, very real. Contrived, edgy, intellectual, fantastic. Juxtaposed context. Pushed boundaries. My style is more of journalistic. Often it is in the moment, a fleeting glimpse of something candid as it passes in the night. Otherwise it attempts to encapsulate art in the composition. It is rare that I do much editing, as I believe in sharpness over, well, loss in quality with editing.
I mostly shoot in real places with natural lighting. I need the thrill of thinking on my feet and capturing the feeling of the environment. The world is my studio. I am cool, comfortable and confident. It is important to me to find the right dynamic and run with it. I put my heart into it and need you to do the same. I want to see you look ravishing.
I love this stuff, so let's go shoot!
Thank you to all who have worked with me.
