I had a photograph featured on Andy Adams’ Flak Photo yesterday! In case you don’t know about Flak, Andy is a tireless promoter of new contemporary photography, particularly from those who might otherwise go unseen by a larger audience. Each day Flak Photo features a new photograph on its home page and yesterday [...]
I thought I’d share a few images from my recent trip to LA. I was out for Review LA, to visit with a few ad agencies and also catch up with some old friends. I dropped by Photo LA as well, browsing the latest offerings from a number of local and international galleries. [...]
It’s a new year and time to get back on the proverbial blogging horse. So for my first post here in 2010 I’ve got some cool news – I’m heading back to California tomorrow for a fun filled photo week. This weekend I’ll be visiting Photo LA, the annual contemporary photography fair in [...]
I’m excited to share this recently completed limited edition portfolio entitled “Hold Tight” consisting of 12, 8.5″x11″ archival pigment prints presented in a hand made box. The portfolio is in an edition of 7. To see the all the images in the box click here.
Hold Tight Cover
Hold Tight Interior and Selection of [...]
Posted on 10/09/2009, 6:28 PM, by tait, under
News.
I’ve been fairly absent in the last month on the blog here but I’m back online now that the catastrophic computer failures are behind me. A couple cool things have gone down in the mean time, like a little article in the September issue of the Italian magazine Dcasa, which uses one of my [...]
Posted on 07/17/2009, 12:16 PM, by tait, under
News,
Website.
It is finally here… After losing all the blood, sweat and tears i could handle and toiling over the smallest of interface details the new website has finally launched! The buttons at the top should be working or if you prefer a direct link here:
www.taitsimpson.com
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 [...]
It has been months of shooting, editing, designing and production, now finally the pieces have all come together and the new portfolio has arrived!
The Box Arrives
Producing my first custom bound portfolio hasn’t been an easy process, there have been bumps and complications along the way, but I had a lot of help from some [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]