Matt Slaby will be guest lecturing at the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication for two classes taught by Kevin Moloney, the 2008 recipient of the NPPA’s Robert F. Garland Educator Award. Slaby will lecture on photojournalism and the law on Dec. 1 from 7:30 -10:00 in CU Boulder’s Hale 236. …
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11.23.2009 by Matt Slaby
You Won’t Find it at the Kerouac Lofts
I guess the suits still all get together over drinks and talk about finance and interest rates. I never thought that subculture had its own version of the cocktail hour, but I suppose it all falls onto the spectrum, one side pursuing the dollar, the other side pursuing beauty, both groups commonly bound by …
11.15.2009 by Matt Slaby
Midnight in Mexican Siberia
It was a big mistake. I ordered the Sailor’s Platter at Red Lobster. Fried shrimp, scampi, baked fish and potatoes. Sounds great, but frozen seafood is a roulette wheel and I didn’t take home any prizes. By mid-afternoon, I have a mild headache, though that didn’t stop me and my …
11.04.2009 by Matt Slaby
Prairie Dog Wars for Audubon Magazine
Audubon Magazine, the Society’s bi-monthly publication, recently ran photographs from an assignment I shot for them in early September. The project focused on the Haverfield family and their struggles with the county in which their cattle ranch sits. The family has been embroiled in a long-running war over the presence of prairie dogs on …
11.03.2009 by Matt Slaby
It’s Always There When You Get Back
It’s six hours from Denver to the Comanche National Grasslands. Eight or ten or something like that if you drive without purpose. I stopped counting at dark. Denver to Trinidad, Trinidad east on dirt county roads for another 100 miles. Doesn’t seem like much from eye level, but if you take it slow, the …
11.02.2009 by Matt Slaby
Bob Tan
It’s been a few years since I photographed Bobby Tan removing glass from his eyebrow with butter knives. A little time has come and gone, but the same enthusiasm and intensity that motivated the butter knife incident are still definitely intact. Went over to his place a couple weeks ago to look through some …
11.01.2009 by Matt Slaby
Halloween Filler
Got home from photographing a deer hunt yesterday afternoon, caught the second game of the World Series at a sushi place and then detoured to Glob for a benefit Halloween show. Strange how quick you can go from Oklahoma border to sushi and hipster Halloween haunts, but I kinda enjoy the edges of the …
10.25.2009 by Matt Slaby
Spellcaster Halloween
Wrapped up my work late last night and went out to catch a haunted house party that some friends had been working on all day. The house wound around through a maze of oddities, terminating at the back of the building in a little garage space where a few bands wrapped up the night. …
10.23.2009 by Matt Slaby
Yvon Chouinard for U.S. News & World Report
I’ve been absent from my blog for almost two weeks. Partly because I’ve been working on finishing up a hefty grant application, partly because Luceo is a matter of days from making a couple exciting announcements, and partly because of editorial embargoes on material that’s sitting in the queue. The latter is what’s been …
10.11.2009 by Matt Slaby
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the (Summer) Light
This weekend was marked by Denver’s first snow of the season, a blast of cold that came almost three weeks before its more traditional appearance on Halloween Eve. For anyone not familiar with my bad winter attitude, I love the west. I hate the snow. Really, I hate the tiny snows, …