tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45821944470079131502024-02-10T01:50:31.123-05:00Box of LightKendrick Brinson's Visual JourneyKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-78240238970981624172008-10-15T08:45:00.005-04:002008-10-15T08:58:04.391-04:00Box of Light is MovingI've packed up my photos and moved to a new blog, friends. there, the photos are huuuuuuge and i can sport the pretty Luceo name. it'll be a grand ole time.so, follow me!Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-12060302436136216182008-10-06T13:52:00.008-04:002008-10-06T14:55:31.980-04:00Cheerleading: Rite of Passagei've been spending the past few weeks photographing the North Augusta High School Varsity Cheerleading squad and will continue to do so til the close of the football season. Friday morning was their homecoming. I awoke before the sun rose to meet the girls at school before classes. The juniors were being made under by the seniors as a rite of passage into the varsity squad. Each senior covered Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-41322199314525136662008-10-01T23:55:00.007-04:002008-10-02T09:12:16.520-04:00Breast Cancer Awareness MonthI have the privilege of individually photographing 31 breast cancer survivors. The photos will run in the Chronicle as a(n almost) full page portrait every day in October. They trickle in every half hour two or three days of the week and I coax each woman, some whom are much more willing than others, to have fun with the camera and their prop.When the photo department first heard of our Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-21521190284651110172008-09-30T12:55:00.003-04:002008-09-30T13:08:41.715-04:00The Writing's On the Wall(to complement my other poetic details sets: what am i looking for?, poetry is in the details, things aren't always as they seem, and singing sad, sad songs. )Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-57344048017206542372008-09-26T13:07:00.005-04:002008-09-26T14:31:23.513-04:00DianaIf you don't look at the Boston Globe's The Big Picture already, you should. Daily. Alan Taylor posts LARGE photos with a central theme, usually a current event, and the blog gets 400,000 to 800,00 hits daily. With media transferring energies into the web, it's nice to see photos displayed big, for a change.I was excited to get an email from Alan a couple days ago requesting to use some images Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-53458691901475659072008-09-24T08:58:00.008-04:002008-09-24T12:27:56.565-04:00Football Craze - Football Crazy : Cocks vs DawgsBecause Augusta lies on the border of Georgia, with only the narrow Savannah River separating it from South Carolina, the night before the UGA vs USC game, the Border Bash takes place. Fans from both teams cheer on the cheerleaders and mascot from each team.People get in line to get autographs from a man in a chicken suit.Young children yell cruel things at the opposing team's fans.Women in shortKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-36845081938844006742008-09-22T15:31:00.006-04:002008-09-22T16:39:20.883-04:00The most important people in my lifeMy lovely mother came to Augusta Saturday so I could give her a birthday hug and she, her Frank, David and I could take in on the arts events of the weekend. With her visit, I finally got to make a polaroid collage of her to add to the collection lining a living room wall.These four people are the most important people in my life. When something important happens, they are the first people I callKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-89399584369742504222008-09-19T09:05:00.000-04:002008-09-19T09:06:03.209-04:00Shuffling along the ScaffoldingKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-11052533788826792532008-09-17T22:43:00.004-04:002008-09-22T16:04:38.610-04:00the static of autumn hums in the airpale September, I wore the time like a dress that yearthe autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skinbut as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappearedmy heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within.fiona.apple.Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-33276365666202112212008-09-17T22:15:00.003-04:002008-09-17T22:26:43.649-04:00Gastropod Molluskmy first assignment this morning was at a wreath-laying event for Constitution Day. i found myself in a historic cemetery where one of the signers of the Constitution was laid to rest. a group of little girls in uniforms gathered for the event, one toting a slug she found on a leaf. she chased the prissier girls with her slimy accomplice.after the ceremony, the girl approached me with slug in towKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-42463924632127684602008-09-15T21:28:00.003-04:002008-09-16T10:43:24.870-04:00the not-so-Quiet ZoneKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-66200039258824666592008-09-14T19:12:00.008-04:002008-09-22T16:06:26.432-04:00coming to terms with my roots.i grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, where a rebel flag flying atop the state capital caused much debate but stayed flying until not long ago. i visited my father's family's rural bicentennial cotton, peanut and corn farm in Georgia twice a year: every summer and Christmas, my cousins and i would pile into the back of my grandfather's pickup truck loaded with dogs and we'd wind through those Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-10324018326472845142008-09-13T17:14:00.003-04:002008-09-13T17:30:31.794-04:00Sweet Dreamin'this is a bar on the outskirts of the town outside of town. i got to choose a bar to depict nightlife in the town and on my way out, after getting in my car to leave, i noticed this scene. after the awkward-motioning-nonono-dance i did with a guy playing pool thinking i was hitting on him through the window, i shot this frame and left. it feels like an old painting to me, with the mixed natural Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-89951629354648636132008-09-11T22:56:00.007-04:002008-09-11T23:54:45.830-04:00everything about it is a love song: The Lake Escapenever underestimate the power of a change of scenery and a change of pace.this week, i escaped to david's family's lake house for a couple days.the last time i was there was almost one year before.two summers ago, the extreme relief was the same and the escape came at a point when i was at a breaking point (and right before a huge turning point).something about the woods, the water that changes Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-16008207588680603772008-09-10T22:27:00.005-04:002008-09-12T00:06:23.049-04:00politics. oy.i shot two candidates as they campaigned through south carolina before the primary. i randomly was assigned Obama and McCain of the several who stopped in the palmetto state. this was last july, october and december-- i shot McCain twice. once, two on one.a year ago, i doubted either of these two would be front runners... so much for my clairvoyance.i was unhappy with the fluff both of them Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-55222504171619803652008-09-10T15:36:00.008-04:002008-09-10T16:15:09.211-04:00a wake up call to a rented room/ sounded like an alarm of impending doom/ to warn us it's only a matter of time/ before we all burni'm starting to get over a fun little bout of a sinus infection turned pneumonia/bronchitis, not sure which because the doctor decided he knew what was wrong with me before he even checked me over. but now that i'm feeling a little better, thanks to some steroids that are giving me lots of energy(!!!!!), i can catch up on my recent photo wanderings.(so here's something that may have contributed Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-5309020398571978412008-09-06T08:33:00.004-04:002008-09-06T08:57:26.653-04:00Pull me out from inside. I am folded and unfolded and unfolding.I have some new photos I'm excited to post. Unfortunately I'm too exhausted to sort through them right now. I've been battling another sinusycoughtorturefest and overworking.Hopefully I'll get the energy and time to share soon...Also, my bepepper-sprayed David Banks returns from shooting the conventions in Denver and St. Paul tonight. I can't wait to see him. If you haven't already, check out hisKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-20887821027637604432008-09-03T13:19:00.001-04:002008-09-03T13:22:13.361-04:00Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-19078389214304661192008-09-02T01:00:00.001-04:002008-09-02T01:49:18.974-04:00My Weekend Sisters: Then and NowThere are very few people in this world who know me better than Lindsey and Meghan. Growing up, my mom called them her weekend daughters. We traded Best Friends necklaces, Be Fri and St Ends. I've known the both of them since elementary school. They knew me when I was about 2500 freckles less, with gapped teeth and a one-speed bike. They know how to push my buttons and they know how to make me Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-24702375087331234722008-09-01T11:19:00.007-04:002008-09-01T22:58:51.493-04:00Last Week, More of the SameLast week I shot more of the same, portraits and food. My love, documentary assignments, are becoming few and far between. I did get to shoot an elderly aerobics class, which surprisingly was a breath of fresh air, despite the fact that I was really sick, because I didn't have to dictate my photo-- I got to decide what I needed to do to get a good image based upon others' movements, instead of myKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-38754120688990789842008-08-27T22:38:00.006-04:002008-08-29T16:13:00.608-04:00Convention SeasonYou would be foolish to ignore the images that Matt Slaby and David Banks are taking in Denver at the Democratic Convention this week. After documenting that circus, they're driving 916 miles to Saint Paul, Minnesota to document the Republican circus and they're taking photos along the way there.They share a gallery of their daily edits on our collective website Luceo Images.Also, keep an eye onKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-34256282684174699172008-08-26T21:09:00.004-04:002008-08-26T23:23:48.336-04:00Blind to the Beautybefore i fell in love with documentary photography, i should have known my calling. my nightmares included being partially blind. i could see, slightly--everything was fuzzy, opaque. everyone would laugh at me. i would get lost. i feared losing my sense of vision long before i found a profession and passion and love for a task that requires my own unique vision. i found my fear in a nightmare Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-42152601340974101522008-08-24T22:32:00.005-04:002008-08-24T23:26:57.132-04:00Kidney Story B-sidesI enjoy working on short and long documentary photostories. It's a pleasure to pick up where you left off with a subject and to have the subject be comfortable with you and give you access they wouldn't at a one-stop assignment.One of my gripes, though, is the edit after it's all been shot. I debate back and forth between the beautiful/graphic images and the images that tell a story. Because Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-22583408116218660862008-08-24T10:13:00.001-04:002008-08-24T12:46:03.024-04:00"We Matched Right From the Beginning"I found this Bible verse written on one of the countless cards sent to Alberta and Eric Ellis:Matthew 8:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases."Not to make Eric Ellis a prophet, but he did just that for his mother Alberta.Eric gave his mother her life back.He gave her the gift of a healthy kidney. When Alberta Ellis was told Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-5651968490207634492008-08-22T12:18:00.005-04:002008-08-22T14:50:39.047-04:00What am I looking for?(to complement my other poetic sets: poetry is in the details, things aren't always as they seem, and singing sad, sad songs. )Kendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.com0