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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 the ‘B&W’ Category

Definitely Not Cuba

I read this morning that a US state department official met with authorities in Cuba to discuss a number of small but significant issues between the two and apparently are making some small inroads into thawing the 50+ year icy relations. I think the most amusing of these gestures is that we’ve turned off [...]

Julius Shulman

Shulman, the preeminent modernist architectural photographer died wednesday in Los Angeles at 98.
I had the chance to see a Shulman retrospective at the Getty in LA a few years ago and even own a copy of his book Photographing Architecture and Interiors. He had an incomparable sense of composition and as far [...]

Venturo

Here’s a recent image of my good buddy Venturo, looking thick like a body builder. Taken the same day as the Yuengling can below and shot with one of my pride and joy/piece of photographic history cameras: the Leica M6 TTL. After an inspiring conversation with a friend recently about this camera, I [...]

Lower East Side

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

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 [...]