• Overpass

    Overpass

    by Toty Antonio Ruggieri

  • Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Even with her strong will and personality, I love her unconditionally, like no other. I know I could survive without my husband, even though I love him. I know he would also be fine without me. But without my daughter, I would be torn to pieces. I can’t even think about it because my eyes well up with tears. I [...]

  • Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    At least, I am always amazed at what she picks up. The scary part is that she picks up everything! Good and bad, I see and hear myself in her sometimes and think, “Oh no, do I sound like that?”. I see my little mirror and have to accept that I had some responsibility for molding her.

  • Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    I took notice of how many parents would take their children with them to places and never talk to them, so the best advice I would give a first time mom is not to take her child for granted in this respect. Children are smart and absorb everything, we already know that, but how young a child learns language and [...]

  • Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]

  • Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    I taught her sign language and before she could talk, she signed the next word in a song that I would sing her to sleep with. That was my first realization of how smart children are if we pay attention to them and give them the tools.

  • Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]

  • Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

    Te Quiero Hasta la Luna

      Before she ever talked, I would show her things and describe them to her. I would point and tell her that the object waving high on the pole was called a flag and what colors it was, and that there were many types and what they represented. Anyone who saw and heard me would have thought I was crazy, [...]

  • Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth

    by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]

  • Sinews

    Sinews

    Mercedes Dorame   Gaps exist in memory, history hangs by threads and anxiety about authenticity and value seeps through the cracks.  Through my work I seek to regenerate to connective tissue of personal and collective meaning to reconstruct a whole.   As part of a Native American tribe from Los Angeles that was once declared extinct by history books, I [...]

 

Magazines

Magazine No. 3: Pageantry
June 6, 2011 1:16 pm

Magazine No. 3: Pageantry

Black Boots Ink is about the rituals of life in the pursuit of happiness — it is about all of us. Magazine No. 3 Pageantry by 11 artists is a look at the grand displays; the pompa, the shows and flash of life that take place in the public/private world. BBI: Pageantry by Jennifer Ahn, Emilio Bañuelos, Santiago Bustamante Mujica, [...]

Blog

Christine Elfman

Christine Elfman

        Anthotype Dress Christine Elfman Interviewed by Kija Lucas What is the role of history in your work both in terms of concept and process? History tells me what a thing is made of, its origins, past, meaning over time.  I am interested in how things are made and where they come from. Many of my projects [...]

Conversations

Overpass

Overpass

by Toty Antonio Ruggieri

Notes

songs to sing karaoke to.

songs to sing karaoke to.

secretly, i’ve always loved to sing, but only when i’m driving alone at night, when no one will notice.  i finally went to karaoke for the first time last year, on my 31st birthday.  it was so exciting and terrifying!  for those of you who have never done it, TRY IT!  it’s definitely something to add to your bucket list [...]

Events

SF Camerwork Panel Discussion: June 9, 2011

SF Camerwork Panel Discussion: June 9, 2011

SF Camerawork welcomes Black Boots Ink photographers to discuss their work and their most recently published magazine. We hope you can join us at SF Camerwork in San Francisco.

Workshops

Wandering in the Company of Strangers: Hawaii

Wandering in the Company of Strangers: Hawaii

The emphasis of this workshop is on learning and practicing skills that help photographers document their own communities. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with personalized working critiques centering on the work created and instruction for making insightful, story-telling images in natural environments. This session examines the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of photography.