6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.
Here are a couple of images from a recent walk down Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint. I love this street and will often take a walk to visit the bank or post office rather than make the trip into the real Manhattan. There’s always a lot of activity, as anyone familiar with the area will know well, and it still manages to retain a bit of it’s polish roots which gives it a certain charm.
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 Santa Monica and showing some new work at Review LA, the portfolio review portion of the event. All the work leading up is done and everything is ready and packed up to go. The edit, the prints, the special promo/leave-behinds are all in their place. Now I’ve just got to have an open mind and receptive ear for the critiques.
If your in LA and interested in seeing all the work being reviewed, there is a showing open to the public Friday Jan 15th from 5-8pm. Come down and say hi.
A few images made at my grandparent’s house late this summer. I’ve been struggling with these for a while now, trying to decipher whether or not they would resonate with anyone other than myself and if they are worth sharing or not. Here’s a taste.
Both from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, August 2009:
While on my way to meet with an old friend who’d just moved to New York, I took a short detour to the bank of the Hudson river to make this picture.
These two images take me back to when I was small, exploring the wooded area behind my parents house, pretending I was Indiana Jones in the jungle of Peru or something similar. At an earlier time, all I wanted was a tree fort from which I could lead an imaginary army into battle. My father set out to build one and even though we didn’t get beyond a little platform wedged in the fork of an oak tree, it was perfect. What it lacked in the way of a roof, walls or any sort of safety railing it made up for in its rugged simplicity.
I’ve been shooting a lot of reflections lately, like the Hotel Delmano series and Ghost in the Machine. Here’s another much different from those, made in the open door of a bar around the corner. It is never open for business, but the shelves are stocked. Occasionally the doors are flung wide open, the televisions turned to a sporting event, but never a sole inside.
Then there’s fog, one of my all time favorite subjects.
During a recent location scouting trip to Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
I spent two days in Rogers Arkansas in mid-September helping my father wrap up the last of a few loose ends at my grandmother’s house before it was sold. I had a bit of time between dropping him off for his flight and my own, so I went exploring around the came across this unfinished housing development. I had been by this spot once before but this time, many months had passed and abandonment shows quickly.
