Strobist: Young Blood: A Chat with Photographer Joey Lawrence: "Canadian Photographer Joey Lawrence is kicking butt. He is doing killer still photography, shooting music videos and traveling the world. He has an agent in New York and another one in London. Pretty cool for a guy who shoots with a Canon EOS 5D and is as likely to be lighting with his speedlights as with Profotos. Oh yeah, and he is only 17 years old."
Monday, October 15, 2007
Strobist: A Chat with Joey Lawrence
Read this... the whole thing. Excellent interview and insights.
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I don't agree. This kid is trying to emulate Dave Hill. He's pretty good at that, though. For example see http://www.davehillphoto.com/pics/p5_9.jpg and http://www.joeyl.com/blusite27b/site_images/galleries/gallery1/punchres.jpg (also shown on this page) Hmmmm, too similar? You bet! And as a photo editor I have some concerns about his pictures he calls "photojournalism". I wouldn't hire him, simply because PJ and cloning, dodging, burning, filtering,... do not mix.
My post was to point out that the interview was well done and that the take on photography was interesting. My particular take is that this type of work is becoming pretty hot. PhotographyPhotoshop or even viceversa... The recent CA Photography Annual's Advertising section was chock full of highly photoshopped work. I really find it fascinating... and I don't mean to say that I agree, I am simply struck by all that it implies. I have been doing this so long, and I am still amazed by the 'me too' and follow on that is such a big part of it. Remember polaroid transfers.. within a year every photographer on the planet had a stack of them in their book.
As far as the PJ thing, yeah, I agree, I just wonder when the lexicons start changing how far they will morph into something unrecognizable. As an official 'old guy' I see these young people as leading a point of change that I may or may not agree with, but sure as hell have to be aware of.
Thanks for the comment. If you are who I think you are, I like your blog and insights a lot.
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