Where You Remained Fixed
By inviting my subjects to hang out with me at a location that complimented their personality, I looked to merge both definitions of the word portrait to depict an honest interaction between the person I was portraying and myself.
Introductions/Introducciones- Jennifer Ahn
I Introduce Jennifer Ahn
There really isn’t anything I like to target. In most cases, I just have my camera and shoot something that is interesting to me at that moment. I like to photograph a little bit of everything…people afar and close up, places with character and things that sometimes may seem unusual to me.
When did you start taking pictures?
I really started back in high school with a point and shoot. I photographed everything my friends and I did, family activities and Charlie, our family golden retriever back then. I miss him.
What has been most challenging for you?
Walking right up to people and taking their portrait…especially in vulnerable situations. I don’t do well at funerals, hospitals for example…as a photographer, I want to capture the moment but as a human being, I want to respect people’s privacy.
What has been most rewarding for you?
Working in the darkroom. Most photographers are in the digital world but I’m old school like that…I love the smell of chemicals, film and photo paper!
Public Places
images by:
Jennifer Ahn , San Jose | Nancy Ahn, San Jose| Emilio Bañuelos, San Francisco | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Tim Gonzalez-Mena, Oakland | Francisco Graciano, San Jose | Kija Lucas, Oakland | Vu Nguyen, San Jose | Colt Peterson, Alamo | Victor Prieto, San Francisco | Diana Sánchez, Oakland
Keeping IT Out
Why we should do away with all public places
by Greg Benchwick
I’ve really begun to hate everything public: Public busses with their surly drivers and sticky customers, candied seats and bubble-gum rails; libraries made for lounging street lizards and hypocritical intellectual hoods; parks with their goddamned fucking trees – so tall, so arrogant – the fucking sidewalks and public spaces with their skateboarding punks and gruesomely green grass. And of course there’s always the itinerant and frightfully exuberant youth in revolt that seems to grow out there like a germ. You must have to be young (or degenerate) to spend so much time out there with IT lurking around every corner.
Issue No. One
images by:
Jennifer Ahn , San Jose | Nancy Ahn, San Jose | Emilio Bañuelos, San Francisco | Juan Carlos, Mexico City | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Jeff Christopher
Publications about women are often published with the intention of defining them. Black Boots Ink is taking a different approach. Each photograph is an individual statement about women and as an essay the images undertake a discussion with the viewer using photographs to create dialogue.
We invite you to share your knowledge, please leave a comment.
What makes a woman, motherhood, beauty, strength…?
Your words are a part of this work.
more:
Love Politics | Spaces Between Places | Public Places | Mexico | Issue No. One | Mexico 2008
