“The Nasty Thrill…”

“The Nasty Thrill…”

Print dimensions: 42 x 75 inches. Always more to come…

Everything Has Been Done Before

Christopher Baker’s “Murmur Study”

This is a blog post I wrote for FOAM Amsterdam.

“Everything has been done before.” It is a quote, that if you are attending art school somewhere you will no doubt have heard at one time or another. I’m going to let you in on something: it’s not true.

“The Newest Reason To Love Your Country”

Image from “Under the Influence”, new work begun in 2012. 42 x 80 inches. More to come…

I Don’t ‘Get’ Instagram – Clive Martin

This article is by Clive Martin and was originally published in Vice UK.

Hey, you know what’s not actually a new thing and that people can all stop going crazy about? Having a phone on your camera. I mean, my phone cost £11.99 and it’s got a fucking camera on it. Getting excited about having a camera on your phone is a bit like getting excited about having a takeaway coffee or playing a song off your laptop. It ain’t no thing.

Still, half the adverts I see on TV are for cameras and phones with cameras on them. There’s usually a smiling mum photographing her snowboarding child in the ultra zoom and capturing their soul in a Twitpic forever, and we’re all being told we should be doing this. We’re told that life is passing us by and that if we don’t take pictures of every banal moment in our lives – like Guy Pearce in Memento – these moments will be lost to us forever. It’s like we’re being told not to trust our own memories.

Technically Intimate – Claire Lontis

This article is by Claire Lontis and is cross-posted from Base Magazine.

Evan Baden’s Technically Intimate seeks to convey how technology has depersonalised how we interact with our partners, including the advent of a worldwide audience.

Starting the body of work in 2008, Baden’s premise is this; to observe and display how “the Internet was changing how youth culture viewed sex, intimacy, and privacy”. It is not uncommon to have, among a circle of friends, a few who have been made a fool of after an intimate self-taken photo intended for their significant other has been circulated once the relationship turned sour. Baden stumbled across websites which paid for such photos. “I began to find many sites that trafficked in sexually charged and explicit images that had been taken by young women and sent to a second person, most presumably a boyfriend. These images then somehow ended up on the Internet for the world to see. And what’s more, the images seem to move from one site to the next, spreading like a virus across the web”.

The art and controversy of being ‘Technically Intimate’

Technically Intimate at Southeastern Louisiana State University

This article is by Tony Romain cross posted from The Lion’s Roar, and was written in conjunction with an exhibit I had there during the month of October.

A current display in the Contemporary Art Gallery has raised a few eyebrows and aroused possibly more than just a little curiosity. The exhibit “Technically Intimate” by photographer Evan Baden features images of young adult women in the nude, re-enacting the poses of adult film stars in innocent and private spaces. The idea is to explore and exploit the fact that more and more young women are redefining intimacy by mimicking what they see in social media and on the web. The exhibit has sexually-charged images involving young women with cell phones, digital cameras and webcams.

Datalogic Commission

An interview I did during my commission. This was done during a break from shooting in Eugene, Oregon.