In February I drove down to Houma, Louisiana to begin photographing the Daneco Alligator Farm. They were just beginning to deal with the impact the recession was having on their industry and with 14,000 skins in cold storage without a buyer, had more or less paused their operations in the hopes that the economy would [...]
June, 2010 Archives
06.29.2010 by Matt Slaby
The Cutting Room Floor
These are the last of the images from the AARP Bulletin assignment in Scobey. Everything that fell to the cutting room floor, another round of homeless pictures that I like enough to present anyhow. The main article and images can be found here: http://luceoimages.com/2010/06/rural-healthcare-for-aarp-bulletin/
06.29.2010 by David Walter Banks
LUCEO Biannual Meeting in Washington DC
I recently had the pleasure of spending a week locked in a hotel room in DC with some of my favorite lunatics on this planet. It’s not too often that I find people that truly understand me on a deeper level, but this whole crew really does. Not only that, but they inspire and push [...]
06.29.2010 by Kendrick Brinson
Small Town USA: Lebanon, Kansas
Matt Slaby, David Banks and I descended upon Lebanon, Kansas last month to document the town for 24 hours. Lebanon is a quiet place. It’s the geographic center of the United States and the perfect start to a group project that all of LUCEO will be working on. The population of the town teeters around [...]
06.28.2010 by David Walter Banks
Writing on the Wall
The process of understanding photography for me is like learning the most intricate language in existence, and while many may be fluent there still lies a huge gap between fluency and mastery of the language. I see it as a lifelong study which transforms the way you see, understand, and relate to the world around [...]
06.28.2010 by Matt Slaby
Legal Left, Meet Creative Right -LOOKBetween 2
This post is a continuation of a conversation started at LOOKBetween. The introductory post can be viewed here: http://luceoimages.com/2010/06/legal-left-meet-creative-right-lookbetween-1/
06.28.2010 by Matt Slaby
Portraits for AARP Bulletin
In order to give the magazine some diversity in the images they had to work with, I did a short series of portraits of some of the people that were featured in the article. The portraits were shot for purposes of punctuation, fallback, and economy of time. Each of these people could have easily warranted [...]
06.28.2010 by Matt Eich
LUCEO Biannual Portraits
You may have noticed that every six months or so that the bio photographs on our website change. Each time we gather for our bi-annual meetings one of our photographers is assigned to photograph all the other members of the group. This time it was my turn and I had fun staking out a corner [...]
06.28.2010 by Kendrick Brinson
A Sense of Place: The Midwest
Kanye West said the Midwest is young and restless, but not where I went–specifically, Lebanon, Kansas and Red Cloud, Nebraska–it felt sleepy and inviting to me.
More to come…
06.26.2010 by Matt Slaby
Gulf Coast, June 28th-July 5th
I will be on the Gulf Coast, south of New Orleans from June 28th through (roughly) the 5th of July. Available by cell phone with limited email. Please contact me at 303 877 0273 should you have needs in the area.