Photo District News (PDN) is the leading photo magazine for professional photographers. Each year they select 30 new and emerging photographers to keep an eye on. Over the next two weeks we will be featuring three of these photographers on our homepage. These rising stars will also be presenting their work at Rochester Institute of Technology - here in Rochester, NY - on October 1 - Check it out!

Without further ado, we would like to present photos by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding collection.

"I hope they reveal something about the complexity of the subjects' relationship with nature and the psychology of that desire for independence" Lucas Foglia


© Lucas Foglia
Homeschooling, Tennessee 2008



© Lucas Foglia
Rita & Cora Aiming, Tennessee 2007



© Lucas Foglia
Acorn with Possum Stew, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2006



© Lucas Foglia
Natalie Making a Bow-Drill Friction Fire, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2007



© Lucas Foglia
Conrad and Ruth, Tennessee 2007


About Lucas
I grew up with my extended family on a farm in suburban Long Island. Influenced by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960's, my parents maintained an agricultural lifestyle as malls and supermarkets developed around us. We heated with wood, grew and canned our food and bartered plants for everything from shoes to dentistry. At the same time, we remained connected to the electrical grid and, when I left for college, my immediate family owned four cars, five computers and one nonworking television.

Since 2006 I have visited, befriended, photographed and interviewed a network of people in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia who have responded to environmental concerns by moving to rural areas and adopting wilderness or homesteading lifestyles. My subjects vary in their religious beliefs and cultural practices but they all share a desire for self-sufficiency. Most of my subjects live off-the-grid, build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs and hunt, gather or grow their own food. I am fascinated by the points of intersection between their ideals, the ubiquitous availability of the mainstream world and the hard work necessary to maintain an alternative lifestyle.

Visit Lucas's web site:
http://www.LucasFoglia.com

Why do so many people take pictures of others shoes? Do they wonder what it is like to be in their shoes? Do they wish to be in their shoes?

I find I take many pictures of shoes and I really do not know why. I guess I am fascinated by the types of shoes people wear and what they do in their shoes. Like the Flamenco Dancer's shoes - it is amazing to watch how fast they can dance in those shoes.

Shoes have a way of telling a story.  The shoes on the homepage this week each tell a story. Below the photographers share with us a little insight into the story.

What do they say to you?
For me, the purple sneakers are saying, "You must have a pair like me!"



Title: Loner

Photographer: Susannah Benjamin

This shows a lot about what school is like.



Title: Odor-Eaters?

Photographer: Steve Arnoldus

This shot is special to me because I when I took it I was still learning the basics of photography, well, I'm still learning! So I guess you could say, it's one of my first photographic successes. I was trying to learn more about long exposures when I took this shot, which as you can see, is what I used here to create the light trails coming out of the boots. The shot was taken in my kitchen with no other lighting than the green you see, and a fill flash at the end of the shot. I feel that it's a perfect fit for the humor theme as I would hope no one would have fluorescent green "stink" coming out of their shoes!



Title: Purple High Tops

Photographer: David S. April

They're more fun...because they're purple!



Title: Flamenco Shoes

Photographer: Margee Rogers

I took this photo on a trip to Southern Spain this summer with my mother and my daughter. We were in a shop in Granada, Spain near the cathedral. It was full of the polka dot dresses that are used to dance flamenco. I found the shoes in a back corner of the shop. I love the colors and the jumbled layout of the children's shoes.



Title: Shoes

Photographer: Cole Vickers

Those shoes tasted bad.

On Sunday, September 20th, the 2009 Emmy® Awards for outstanding work in television will be handed out. Kodak is proud to be represented in many of the television programs nominated this year.

Television is a unique and intimate medium that brings immersive experiences directly into our homes. Families like the Ricardos, Waltons, Ewings, Cosbys, and the Barones become so familiar that viewers forget they are fictional. TV has also provided audiences a weekly escape to a bar in Boston where everybody knows their name, to the 4077 MASH where both high jinx and tragedy occur, and to Mary Richard's Minneapolis apartment for another one of her disastrous dinner parties.

As the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences® prepares to host the 61st Annual Emmy® Awards, Kodak is pleased to shine a spotlight on some of this year's nominees in the Best Cinematography categories. These artists have created memorable visuals that have touched the hearts of millions. Kodak congratulates all the nominees on another extraordinary year of unforgettable storytelling.

 

Mad Men
Mad Men takes place in the world of high-powered, ambitious Madison Avenue advertising agencies, circa 1962. In the nominated episode, a flashback follows mysterious but talented executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm) to Peggy Olson's (Elisabeth Moss) bedside in the psych ward, where she has given birth to an unwanted child. He advises her to compartmentalize and forget about the event, thus giving the audience a window into his own thinking.

Bobbie Barrett (Melinda Mcgraw) and Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in Mad Men (PHOTO CREDIT: © 2008 CARIN BAER/AMC)

Cinematographer: Christopher Manely, ASC

Manely quote on shooting MAD MEN:
"I was pleased with the low-key way this scene was lit and composed, and the way the transitions worked. There was also a scene that takes place at Sardi's in New York, which we filmed at Musso & Frank's in Hollywood. The wood there is beautiful, and it worked so well with the character's period wardrobe, jewelry and makeup. Our current approach is to be a naturalistic as possible. Our palette is basically dictated by the colors of the sets and wardrobes, which recreate what would have existed in 1962. We play it pretty straight with the lighting."

KODAK film stock used
KODAK VISION3 500T 5219 film (3-perf Super 35 format)

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Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad follows a high school chemistry teacher who learns he's dying of cancer. He takes up a new career as a methamphetamine producer in hopes of earning enough money to take care of his family. In "ABQ," the show's second season finale, an air traffic controller is distraught because his daughter died after taking crystal meth, and subsequently two passenger planes collide over the city of Albuquerque.

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad (PHOTO BY: LEWIS JACOBS; COURTESY OF AMC)

Cinematographer: Michael Slovis

Solvis quote on shooting Breaking Bad
"AMC encourages us to create dramatic storytelling of the highest quality. They want this television series to feel like a film you would see in a theater. For the most part, we play things in slightly wider, more cinematic shots. Sometimes, though, we do go in very tight, depending on the scene and the characters. I light with a chiaroscuro approach and I don't worry about lighting up faces all the time. My main concern is to convey the emotions of the scene. I'm free to use color and different kinds of interesting shot structures in an effort to express the story in the most graphically interesting and refreshing way that we can. ... Breaking Bad is a dream job ... the prose of the stories and the dialogs are poetry."

KODAK film stock used
KODAK VISION3 500T 5219, KODAK VISION2 200T 5217, KODAK VISION2 50D 5201

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Into The Storm
Into the Storm opens with Winston Churchill in France, awaiting the 1945 election results and thinking back on the war years. The drama, told mostly in flashbacks, touches on his inspirational leadership as well as the stress his public life put on his personal relationships, especially with his wife.

Brendan Gleeson plays Winston Churchill in Into the Storm. (PHOTO BY: SUSAN ALLNUTT; COURTESY OF HBO)

Cinematographer: Michel Amathieu, AFC

Amanthieu quote on shooting Into The Storm
"I wanted to avoid a sepia or brown look, and to stay with something more contemporary. I used quite high contrast, with deep blacks and colder, more cyan tones for the war years, in keeping with Churchill's dynamic character. For the French period that frames the story, the images were softer and more pastel. I prefer to bring all I can to the negative, rather than creating the look during digital intermediate timing. The French scenes were actually shot at a house in the southwest of England, and the seascape backgrounds were composited into the windows, which had been photographed with greenscreens outside."

KODAK film stock used
KODAK VISION3 500T 5219 and VISION2 200T 5217 films

 

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Generation Kill
Generation Kill is seven-part miniseries about an elite Marine unit in the first weeks of the Iraq War. The series is based on the book by Evan Wright, a reporter who was embedded with the First Recon Battalion as they crossed the border from Kuwait. In "Combat Jack," there is grumbling in the ranks about an abandoned supply truck that occupies time at a captured airfield, but Bravo is soon on the move again, heading north, clearing villages and setting up a roadblock outside Al Hayy.

Kellan Lutz and Owain Yeoman. photo: Paul Schirald in Generation Kill (PHOTO: PAUL SCHIRALDI, COURTESY OF HBO)

Cinematographer: Ivan Strasburg, BSC

Strasburg quote on shooting Generation Kill
"We produced the series at practical locations in Africa, in environments ranging from dust storms to rain, freezing cold to blistering hot weather. We decided to produce Generation Kill in Super 16 format because it looked and felt right. We had two cameras on platforms on a Humvee with the goal of taking the audience on a journey through the eyes of the reporter."

KODAK film stock used
Kodak VISION2 200T 7217 film

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a police procedural that takes place in Las Vegas and focuses on forensic evidence. "For Warrick" finds Grissom (William Petersen) and his team shocked to learn that Warrick (Gary Dourdan) has been shot. They immediately begin to investigate the crime and uncover a surprising secret about their colleague.

The CSIs (William Petersen) attend Warrick's funeral as they struggle to reconcile with the loss of their partner on CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, on CBS. (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Cinematographer: James L. Carter, ASC

Carter quote on shooting CSI
"There was some real emotional content that came into play when I shot the show. There was some additional human drama that gave me the chance to do some things photographically that are not totally typical of CSI. The opening section - where the main character arrives, walks the length of an alley and discovers the body - was shot near Langer's Deli in downtown Los Angeles. We had the opportunity to film in the alley at a variety of times of day, which we don't normally get to do, and that was fun."

KODAK film stock used
KODAK VISION2 500t 5218 and 200T 5217 films

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Life On Mars
Life on Mars follows a New York City detective who is hit by a car in 2008 and wakes up in 1973. There, he must adjust to his new life and work for a politically incorrect boss, all the while trying to figure out how to get home to 2008. In the nominated episode, he works to help find a killer whose case is similar to one he was working on in 2008.

A scene form the premiere of Life on Mars. (©PHOTOGRAPHER/ AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC./ ERIC LIEBOWITZ)

Cinematographer: Kramer Morgenthau, ASC

Morgenthau quote on shooting Life On Mars
"The episode was produced in 35 mm format, mainly at practical locations in New York City. We differentiated scenes set in contemporary times and the 1970s with subtly different looks that were mainly created in-camera. Scenes set in contemporary times are a little colder and crisper. The 1970s scenes have a more impressionistic look with slightly more texture and grain. We also shot a few flashback scenes on Super 8 film and put final touches on the look during HD postproduction."

KODAK film stock used
KODAK VISION3 500T 5219 film

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Looking for more in-depth information about these shows, visit our Cinema & Television web site.

Kodak has a long history of innovation; it's at the core of everything we do. At PRINT 09 we will help professionals in commercial print, data print, publishing, and packaging capitalize on opportunities to increase efficiency, productivity, and revenue through a combination of virtual technology, live discussions, product information and samples. We will help to educate, inspire, and equip printing and marketing professionals to face the exciting road ahead.

PRINT 09 is exciting for us because we will be unveiling a new experience for those who stop by our booth. The Pipeline of Innovation serves as the centerpiece of Kodak's booth. This 24-foot-long digital display will feature a continuous stream of visual images representing innovative technology and solutions from Kodak. Visitors can interact with the display to learn more about what interests them.

Surrounding the Pipeline of Innovation, a series of interactive modules with circular flatscreen displays will deliver in-depth information in four market segments: commercial printing, packaging, publishing and data-driven communications, where visitors can find more information on KODAK Solutions.

In addition to the Pipeline of Innovation we will have the K-Zone. The K-Zone is a live talk show set where dynamic discussions with industry experts, print service providers, and marketing professionals will take place daily throughout the show.

Can't make the show? No worries highlights and live streaming K-Zone interviews and panel discussions will be available on our web site - www.kodak.com/go/print09

You can also read our daily blog posts on Grow Your Biz

If you are a consumer, like me, you may be wondering how does Kodak printing technology impact me? You probably see examples everyday and don't even realize it.  Let's take a look at the photo on our homepage, there are many examples.



Kodak printing technology is used in so many industries from packaging of your favorite snack to the brochure that enticed you to buy your last car.

The next time you pick-up a magazine, newspaper or brochure look at the quality of the printed material, what's it like? Did the packaging make a difference when you were selecting you 3pm snack?

It's time for you AND Kodak.

In just a few short days Chicago will be alive with PRINT09 and we'll be there! PRINT09 is this year's largest and most comprehensive graphic communication conference. People from around the world will be embarking on the city looking for the latest and greatest innovations in the graphic communications industry. PRINT09 is expected to welcome more than 650 exhibitors who will demonstrate the entire gamut of printing-related equipment, products and services.

Visitors to the Kodak booth will see some exciting innovations  - virtual technology, the Pipeline of Innovation and live panel discussions in the K-Zone powerfully demonstrate how visitors can grow their business; Antonio M. Perez, Kodak Chairman and CEO, kicks off K-Zone with a panel discussion: "What's Print Got to Do with It?" Each lively session will be recorded and placed on KodakTube.

Stop by to see us at PRINT09
September 11-16, 2009
McCormick Place North and South, Chicago, IL, USA
Kodak Booth Number: 6907, North Hall

If you are unable to attend the show our web site will have highlights to keep you up to date on what is happening - www.kodak.com/go/print09

Enjoy our images and a few fun facts of Chicago!!

Joel Rosen

The title "Windy City" was given to Chicago by New York Sun editor Charles Dana in 1893. He was tired of hearing long-winded politicians boasting about the wonders of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago the same year.

Jenny Cisney

The Bean or the "Big Shiny Thing" in Millennium Park is actually a sculpture named "Cloud Gate", made of fortified stainless steel and designed by Anish Kapoor.

 

Dan Dickerson

Roller skates, steel frame skyscraper, elevated railway, cracker jacks, zipper, window envelope, hostess Twinkie, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, pinball game and spray paint - just to name a few - were invented in Chicago.

Jenny Cisney

The Chicago River is the only river in the world that flows backwards; it was reversed in 1900 by engineers for sanitary purposes.  Chicago also dyes the river green on St. Patrick's Day.

Joel Rosen

Stop back here on Friday, I'll show you how Kodak's commercial print, data print, publishing, and packaging services touch your life everyday!