Black Boots Ink » Jennifer Ahn

SF Camerwork Panel Discussion: June 9, 2011

Emilio Banuelos — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:18:47 +0000

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.

Magazine No. 3: Pageantry

Will Hortman — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:16:00 +0000

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, Elyse Butler, Juan Carlos, Elena Carrasco, David Flores Magon, Rory Hejtmanek, Irwin Lewis, Victor Prieto, Megan Wilson.

Click here to order Issue No. 3 from MagCloud.

Magazine No. 1: Wandering in the Company of Strangers

Emilio Banuelos — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:23:47 +0000

Black Boots Ink Magazine No. 1 brings you the work of 44 photographers and writers working in Guadalajara and Zapopan Mexico, and San Francisco and Los Angeles, California as participants in the Wandering workshop series.

Click here to order Issue No. 2 from MagCloud.

words by: J. Eduardo Barragan, Guadalajara | Karla Tarin, Guadalajara

magazine design by the Photologists, Nancy and Jennifer Ahn.

Where You Remained Fixed

Emilio Banuelos — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:04 +0000

by Paccarik Orue

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.

Black Boots Ink Exhibition at Exposure Gallery

Emilio Banuelos — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:30:14 +0000

Exhibiting until April 30, 2010

Introductions/Introducciones- Jennifer Ahn

Emilio Banuelos — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:49:42 +0000

I Introduce Jennifer Ahn

Jennifer’s website and Issue No. One, Public Places

What is your photography about?

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

Will Hortman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:00:55 +0000

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.

I admit that IT chafes me. And that YOU terrify me. That’s why I drive a Hummer so big and burly you’d need to be 6 foot 4 and have x-ray vision to see inside. You can’t see past the walls of my 8000-square-foot McMansion; you can’t see into the marbled halls of my boy Bill’s private school; you can’t see into my country club or my doctor’s office. And this is how I like it. This is how I designed it from the ground up.

To keep YOU out! To keep IT out!

To protect my life, every second of it – from Lunesta-soaked dreams (why hello there Mr. Butterfly) to the 19th hole and the champagne and caviar cart at Chez Pierre. Each day I find a new layer of insulation in hopes that the putrid wind of the plebeians not waft over my fence or through my tinted window. But IT always manages to get in.

I say we privatize everything. Private parks so well manicured you could perform surgery out there. Oh wait, I guess I have the club for that. Well then, let’s do away with busses and libraries and the goddamned sidewalks with their never-ending booby-traps – cracks designed to break mother’s back and crap left with one sole purpose: to shit on my parade. If you can’t afford your own ride and a few hundred a year at Barnes & Noble than what kind of American are you really?

I got all this mafia-like protection – from the SUV to the towering walls of my gated community – with money. I suggest you get some sometime. Then I might even consider letting YOU in. But IT is not invited.

Issue No. One

Will Hortman — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:09:20 +0000

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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.

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