Rod McNicol

Discovered Rod McNicol's photography after completing Project 1, but the similarities are too obvious to let lie! These two people were suffering terminal illness at the time of the photograph, and died 2 weeks later. They hold a photograph of themselves as children, as my models did for my sequence on generation and age. The composition of the childhood photo has been mimicked in the more recent one.

Everynone

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.
 beautiful, simple art videos by Everynone - I especially appreciate the combo of music and real recorded sounds - the clips selected are genius, too!

Miranda July

Me and You and Everyone We Know

I still haven't managed to get my hands on the entire film but the clips available on youtube are wonderful, this intro sequence especially sets a great mood and I love the way Miranda July tells a simple story of ordinary people with such basic film techniques, and manages to make it seem so special.

Street Photography

The Stranger knows himself so well that it looks as if he's been asked to pose. He is so honest it looks staged, hyper-real. I've always been astounded by a person's capacity to out do himself - to do things so typical of his personality that an observer has to laugh in surprise at the predictability of the whole thing. This is where cliche's come from: there is nothing wrong with a cliche. Cliche's exist. They are created by real people and don't have to be repeated by artists.