Cahokia: The Bodies at Mound 72
He is lying there on his back, you see his resplendency, at least in your mind’s eye, in the white conch shell beads he lies upon, the shells brought here to just outside modern-day St. Louis from the Gulf of…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Darin Boville
Books on My Desk: Studying Ballet, Ice, and the First Road Trip Photographer
On the Amazon-owned DPReview, probably the most popular photography site in the world, the forum area has over forty-five million posts spread over four million threads. Only eight of those threads mention (and only just mention) Alexy Brodovitch and only…
Spring Is Coming
I went down to my workshop in Half Moon Bay—I essentially abandoned it in March—to clean up, organize, and prepare it for new work. When I had left the space I had just finished shooting the images for my project…
Glimmerglassed: The Fast Fuji 50 f/1.0 with Diffusion
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you hold it and shift it around so the light reflects off the glass, the surface of a Glimmerglass filter looks like it has…
Faithful and Confused
At two in the morning, California time, the number next to Georgia went from red to blue. Like some physics-class demonstration, the addition of mostly blue votes to the pool is changing the color of the pool, now more blue…
Waiting for Trump
What is being shown here is a series of random characters. They appear on-screen fifteen times a second and each one is checked to see, wholly by chance, if it is the magic word. What’s the magic word? I made…
His Will Be Done
These photographs are from a slightly larger set of images I made over the summer. The portraits are of the key supporters of Trump—those who amplify (and in some cases, shape) His views either in the media or with behind…
New Work: Trump Faces (Adoration of the MAGA?)
“Trump Faces” isn’t a proper name for the project. I originally called this one “Faces,” but only as a working title—you can’t have a dozen projects titled “untitled” if you want to stay sane. So “Trump Faces” it is, while…
New Work–Black Sun (The Anomaly)
Black Sun (The Anomaly) is my newest project. Initially, I wrote two sentences here, all of the text that would accompany this project. But I felt it needed more and so, at just past midnight, I started to write that…
Transformation of Trump: The Primaries Project of 2016
I can’t remember another presidential election in my lifetime where so much has changed, so much transformed in only four years. Four years ago to this day I was working on my Primaries project. My original conception was to make…