6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The New York Times reported today on the front page of the Arts section about 126 Rolls of previously unseen work by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War that the ICP has uncovered and scanned for preservation. According to Cynthia Young, the newly discovered work has provided “a much [...]
As a former student of Philosophy, I found this summary on the NYtimes website interesting reading over breakfast. While pornography and tobacco aren’t really breakfast table conversation material, the comparison between the two struck me. Mary Eberstadt, of the Hoover Institution, compares the two in a fascinating piece about what she calls “reversal in moralizing”. [...]
I’m en route to Colorado today to hang the All B&W show at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, which opens on November 25th. I was honored to be asked to participate and am looking forward to seeing what everyone else will be showing. Here is the invitation: Preparing for the show also gave me [...]
The winners of the 2008 APA (Advertising Photographers of America) have been announced today and I have awarded the first place in the “personal / fine art” category. check it out HERE. The images will also appear in the December issue of Rangefinder Magazine. While I wasn’t shooting with a rangefinder on these images, I [...]
After a period of silence on the blog here, its time for a few updates. Not only is there a lot of new work in the pipeline, and a new portfolio to follow, but a few developments that are exciting and worth noting in themselves. Keep an eye out for the results of the APA [...]
After a lot of internal debate about what to include and what not to include, I’ve finally arrived at a suitable collection of images for the upcoming Create:Fixate group photography show in downtown Los Angeles, on July 12th. 5 images from my recent Icelandic series will be on display and I have to admit I’m [...]
