Feeling Like A Giant

July 13, 2009

I was in Evanston yesterday for the Evanston Art Center faculty exhibition (I have a photograph in the show). As I was leaving I saw a family I recognized from a preschool I photographed at last January. I recognized the boy’s face and then thought, “But he is so little!”. This reminded me of how [...]

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Summer in Minneapolis

July 3, 2009

I’m in MPLS for a few days visiting. It is so beautiful in the summer I almost forget how cold and snowy winter is. I’m not sure what it is about MPLS or maybe it is my brother’s house, but I always seem to find way more pictures here than anywhere else. This morning I [...]

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Recital: Performing Who We Are

June 10, 2009

I went to a dance recital over the weekend for a five year old friend. There were kids of all ages in the show, but the 2-3 year olds were really something to see. Not only were they just ridiculously cute in their fancy dresses, but also their performance was great – mostly they just [...]

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Maybe I think too much.

May 30, 2009

I just finished reading the book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell. The gist that I got from it is that if you over think things or have too much information about something you limit your ability to use your intuition (which has been found to often be more accurate). Granted it’s a whole book and its [...]

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The Way of Being and Infant

May 19, 2009

I met Ezra over the weekend (actually two weekends ago now). He is two-ish months old and is Estelle’s brother. Being around him got me thinking about the way of being of an infant, what it is all about, all the amazing things occurring in the brain of a baby etc. Ezra staring up at [...]

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Eventual Geography of Home

May 13, 2009

Yay for me! I’m a nominee for the New York Photo Awards 2009 Fine Art Single Image category. I like the part where they say about the nominees, “It is clear that they represent the Future of Contemporary Photography, and we wish them continued success.” So, for the past week or so I have been [...]

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Loopy and Absorbed in Detail

May 5, 2009

The past week I have been working on remaking my video clips that I have had up on my site for a long while now. It was all originally done as flash files and was meant to be interactive (and still is on the site www.christykarpinski.com/videos/video2.html). The limiting thing about that is they will only [...]

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Comfort Zone: visual exploration and the organization of my brain

April 29, 2009

I was talking to a student today as he was finished making a print in the darkroom. He was standing back and looking at the line of test strips he had laid out in order on the board next to the final print. He said he liked seeing all the different times and color changes [...]

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The Space/Place of My (Re)Inhabited Childhood

April 22, 2009

There are a few things I have found to be important for making my pictures with children. First of all there is an age range that really is ideal. This seems to be a little before 2 till just beyond 3. I think it’s at the point where the child really starts to move around [...]

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