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6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.


Archive for May 2009

Memorial Day in Prospect Park

What was forecast to be a wet and gloomy memorial day weekend, turned out to be a beautiful one. A few images from the park. Lion Red Balloons Leah

Lower East Side

Repulsive, I know, yet there is something oddly alluring and telling about garbage and a clogged sewer. Untitled 2009

The Resurrection of Polaroid?

I saw a curious post on the New York Times photo blog Lens (which if you haven’t checked it out yet, is really quite slick) about the possible revival of Polaroid film, with a link to a full article also from the NYT, about former Polaroid workers trying to bring back instant film. The possibility [...]

The Edge of Vision

Last night at the Aperture gallery, JL books hosted an opening night party for three of their new releases by Corin Hewitt, Bertrand Fleuret and Michael Schmelling. Corin Hewitt was present, working on a still-life-photography-as-performance-art projected to the sounds of ambient techno! It felt kind of like an art rave or something. Anyway, the real [...]

Website home page

I’m trying to pick an image for the homepage of the new website and I thought I’d post a few options here and see what people think. Option 1: Option 2: Option 3: Option 4: Option 5:

NY Photo Festival

The New York Photo Festival closed Sunday, surviving with little surprise and a few gems tucked away amongst quite a lot of work that I must say I just didn’t care that much for. It is only the second year of the festival and so it is not surprising that there were a few kinks [...]

Avedon at ICP

Everyone is all excited about the New York Photo Festival occurring this weekend in DUMBO and so am I. I’ll be down there tomorrow to walk through the exhibits and sit in on a panel discussion about the relevance of blogging in the photographic community. However, it is also worth noting that opening tomorrow (may [...]

The Fountain

Not much to say about this one just wanted to share a recent image that I really like. It was the light dappling as it set through the trees that got me. The Fountain

New Black and White

After finalizing the pagination of my new book, i realized, as if it hadn’t been entirely obvious before, that the entire book is in color. Truth be told i haven’t shot much black and white in the last year, so it makes sense. However, there was a time where I shot almost exclusively in monochrome, [...]

Talk about a unique collaboration!

Dark Night of the Soul is a album/book/art exhibition (probably best to just call it a multimedia experience) featuring the musical collaboration of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse with still images contributed by none other than David Lynch. And if that wasn’t enough, the additional musical contributors include Iggy Pop, Flaming Lips, Frank Black, Julian Casablancas [...]