tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45821944470079131502011-07-29T02:33:03.485-04:00Kendrick Brinson's Visual JourneyKendrick Brinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00317614600432638625noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582194447007913150.post-78240238970981624172008-10-15T08:45:00.005-04:002008-10-15T08:58:04.391-04:00

I'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!

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i'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

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I 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

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(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. )

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If 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

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Because 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 short

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My 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 call

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pale 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.

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my 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 tow

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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

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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

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never 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

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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

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i'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

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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 his

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There 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

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Last 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 my

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You 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 on

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before 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

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I 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

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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

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(to complement my other poetic sets: poetry is in the details, things aren't always as they seem, and singing sad, sad songs. )

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hats, disguises, surprises, candles, breasts, laughter. sounds like the weekend.

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I'm so very excited to (finally) announce the launch of Luceo Images, a photo collective comprised of myself and my very favorite photojournalists: David Walter Banks, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Chip Litherland, Tim Lytvinenko and Matt Slaby. (Tim Lytvinenko designed the Luceo site, as well as my personal portfolio site)Luceo Images is a collection of photographers creating a space for fresh visual

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A reporter and I tagged along with Alex , 4, on his first day of school. I knew I liked Alex when I watched him, completely determined, putting his shoes on the wrong feet for 5 minutes at 7:15 am Monday.

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the worms crawl in. the worms crawl out.

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...The probabilities would swirl in the corners of my eyes, and if I turned my head quickly, I could catch the future growing behind. Stasis or travel, symmetry of adventure. Why did I never glimpse myself standing there? I found no lines, no planes, nothing flat or straight, nothing simple, nothing set, only arcs of possibilities to enfold myself in....claudia.smith.brinson.Today, my mom and

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Yesterday, I did a "Senior Fashion" shoot at a senior living community in town.The women were such a joy to spend time with, very lighthearted and energetic.Here's one from the shoot: Bunny Davis, 89.After the shoot, the women requested a group shot. Ruth (left) said the ladies should pretend I was a cute sailor, which brought on a guffaw and the coy body language.As I was packing up my gear,

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August in Augusta feels much like the inside of an oven. If a swamp was inside the oven. If the 12,600 degree core of the Earth were inside that swamp. And if the hot chocolate I burn my tongue on every December were poured on top of that smoldering core.Finding people to photograph braving the heat regularly proves difficult. The "heat feature" is the cross us photojournalists bear every summer.

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This past weekend I attended APhotoADay's annual Geekfest, which was based out of St. Petersburg, Florida this year. I am so inspired by the energy and talent of passionate photojournalists. I got a kick in the booty to step it up a notch and I got to put faces to names to the photos I've admired.Here are just a few Geeks, some I already knew, in order of appearance:Amelia Phillips Ariel

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soon, i will be reunited with the sea.i ache for water when i'm surrounded by land.(my 5d's clarity has spoiled me. when i first got these photos back, i was annoyed with the grain and softness. now the pixel-less-ness and grain pull me in.)

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Since it's the weekend and I'm feeling lazy and don't feel like editing through images I took this week, I'd like to introduce you to my two black, furry roommates Kelton and Kudzu, and my weekend roommate Highland.Kelton's my crooked-headed, tailless buddy. He sleeps next to my heart and sometimes pets my face while I sleep to wake me up. He follows me everywhere and hugs me when I walk inside

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the business of newspapers is becoming a scarier place day by day across the country. the thing i've always loved about my job has not changed, i'm still getting paid to meet people and have daily adventures that i document. the office was always background noise before, too. but as readership shrinks more and more and the industry tries to find out how to stop shrinking newsrooms and how to

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one of my fondest memories involves a trip to the keys with a now lost-to-me old friend.i was on the cusp of womanhood and flirting with the idea of it, but still giggling and girlish.i remember the trip being a whirlwind of tastes of freedom-- my friend and i had our own room, but were accompanied by my mother and frank who were down the hall. we chased boys we met, but came home before curfew.

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the past few times i've photographed choirs singing, my eyes have teared up the music was so beautiful.it's embarrassing though, because i'm just so tough. (i eat nails for breakfast.)the photos below are from a music camp at a local church.one of the skits/songs included these fabulous hats. it also started off with "Ladies, you know why I love Jesus? cuz He don't lie. He don't cheat. He don't

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At 7 months, Dimitri Hodapp has been in and out of the hospital more than 10 times. The pneumonia he suffered in his first month of life caused respiratory failure and forced him to have tracheotomy, gastric tube and stomach wrap surgeries.Heather and Christopher Hodapp pray with their 2-year-old son, Vincent, in the Ronald McDonald House dining room. Meals are provided at dinnertime, which "is

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David and I headed downtown in Augusta Saturday to stroll through some of the stores. We wandered in Americana, a tattoo parlor on Broad, and we each came out with a new tattoo on our arms. We hadn't even looked into the artists or planned on doing it (although we both had vague ideas rattling in our heads... i think once you get a tat, you're always planning the next).These were the second

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today i was reminded why i love this job -- meaning photography and people. my camera leads me down paths i would never stray along otherwise and introduces me to people i would never meet. on the way to an assignment this morning, i was called and told it was cancelled. i was in a more rural area of South Carolina and thought I'd feature hunt while I was out there, which led me to a county rec

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Our Managing Editor voiced the desire to see more teens in our newspaper and I was trying to come up with a photo column to take up time on my slower days and to make me write, so I started "Looking Past the Clique" this Spring. I did this photo column profiling local teens who, on the surface, fell into certain high school stereotypes but who were more than what their surface suggested.I'm

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you are an unruly translucent a dirty windshield with a shifting view so many cunning running landscapes for my dented door to open into i just wanna tune out all the billboards weld myself a mental shield i just wanna put down all the pressures and feel how i really feel just show me a moment that is mineits beauty blinding and unsurpassedmake me forgeteverymomentthatwent byand left me so

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i give you my most recent newspaper rejects. also known as the photos that will never make it to print. or as we sadly tend to call them, by no choice of our own, the "outtakes."a fencing class warming-up at sunset:a preview of a traveling Vietnam Wall, the day before its debut to the community (oh c'mon, you already knew what that wall looked like, but surely you've never seen the stars and bars

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(Jackie Ricciardi photo above)I give you photos of David and I for any of you who wondered if we were spared from the mudstorm splatter at the glorious Redneck Games. The answer is clearly no. Yes, Georgia clay stains. No, not even OxiClean can get it out. I guess I'm stuck with red hair now, too.(I'd like to note that our camera gear only suffered minor muddage. we came armed with protection

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David and I met up with Jackie and Nicole at the 2008 Redneck Games in East Dublin, Georgia Saturday.we had a grand ole time, with our cameras completely mud-proofed, and embraced our hidden inner redneck. (i'm still finding mud encrusted on my lens filter... and david's ears.)and really, what says redneck better than beer, mud and rebel flags?

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Dear Blog,Forgive me for my absence, Blogger was giving me a bit of technical difficulties.In the meantime, I've been quite busy.This weekend, I went on a photo daytrip with two of my favorite photographers. Also, I just wrapped up a shorter long-term project on a family staying at the Ronald McDonald House.I finally kicked myself into gear and decided to stop waiting for the huge,

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...fine, i admit it.my life is more horrific than yours.

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The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.-Kate Chopin, The AwakeningI try to escape to the idyllic isle of Pawleys

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you got to look outside your eyes.you got to think outside your brain.you got to walk outside your lifeto where the neighborhood changes..ani.difranco.More images from my numerous visits to the endangered, very soon to be extinct, Gilbert Manor Project and a few photos from the lives of some residents beyond their former home, in new neighborhoods.

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I have not shot a lot of longterm documentary projects. I wouldn't be so bold to say that I've very seriously dedicated myself to more than a few. But I'm not naive, I know that access and trust and follow-through can be difficult.With that being said, a photo story I chose to work on starting last November presented me with nothing but obstacles and frustrations. By last week, after working on

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Pawley's Island, South Carolina is my annual sanctuary.I've gone there just about every summer for the past 20 years and I can probably attribute 30% of my freckles to that Atlantic coast paradise.sigh.

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I was flipping through my favorite poetry books the other night and inside of my ee cummings book, I found this treasure:I'm ashamed that I cannot remember the little hands that drew it. I know I must have been on an assignment and the child gave it to me before I left. She did a pretty good job at guessing how to spell my name (top). I'd say my legs and feet look pretty much the same in her

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millions of peaches, peaches for me.i crossed the border from the peach state into the palmetto state for a story about peaches yesterday. go figure. the palmetto state (South Carolina) actually produces more peaches than the peach state (Georgia).after poor peach crops in 2007, the fruit will be making a comeback in South Carolina orchards this year.

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hints of my recent wanderings...there is a poem somewhere here in it all

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As I'm starting to plan my next getaway adventure abroad, I'm reminded of my last. David and I wandered Guatemala for a little under one month in January. The more eyes that see these photos, the more people know something I didn't before my trip: Guatemala has the highest rate of childhood malnutrition in the Western Hemisphere, more so than Haiti.One of our many stops took us way off the gringo

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i listen to the whitenoiseit purrs through the nightnot because i can't sleepbutbecause you can'tor couldn'ta red light flickered above my bedthe smoke detectorwatching with its red eyei thought, for a moment,it wasout of the corner of my eyea fireflytrapped in the jarof my roomfluttering abovemyhalfemptydoublebedi'm discomfortedby my comforteri'm missing you

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jackie and i walked with asha just before sunset last nightthrough the perfume of gardenias(also, one of my favorite people just launched her website: www.laurencarroll.net so go take a gander)

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i will preface this by saying i have never been athletic. i danced elementary through high school, but never played team sports. well except when i was 5-years-old-- i played soccer for a season and spent every game drawing in the dirt with my cleat on the field completely oblivious to rules or even where the ball was.i shot soccer tonight, which was a treat because i rarely shoot sports and

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i got to hang out at the set of the filming of Kerberos last weekend during a hostage scene. (david is working as DP on the indie action movie all month--he's center, purple).even though i knew the shots fired were blanks and the blood was fake, it was easy to get wrapped up in the intensity of the scenes.

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it really depends on who you are, but i can be very demanding and bossy.however, when it comes to photography, i am uncomfortable telling people what to do. for this reason, i love documentary photojournalism and tend to despise portraiture. i enjoy figuring out where to place myself so the light, person, action, scene all add up to a great documentary frame. for some reason i have trouble

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Mothers have unbelievable strengths. Unknown to them even, I think.The image below is from a project I worked on last year. Diana, 5, had just undergone surgery to remove a chemotherapy port in her chest. Diana, like most 5 year olds, is a wild little spitfire. Diana, unlike most 5 year olds, had cancer. I never saw her mother flinch. She rolls with the kicks and punches with ease."I did really

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lately, i've gotten pretty bad about saving my daily photos... these are a couple that have been sitting in a folder on my desktop.an illustration on high school girls who gossip:from a feature on a local musician and piano salesman's home:Chevelle Candians at the Audobon Society's Carriage Drive:Education Students play word games with children at the Boys & Girls Club:A Cross Walk:Police

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first i fell in love with this man's smilethen his photographsthen his mind... and beard.and here's how it happened:act i.2 years ago, on cinco de mayo, this boy appeared.i'd gone to college with him a year and a half before. i'd taken a photo class with him, he was chief photographer on the photo staff i was on at the college paper. yea, there might've been a slight crush, let's call it a mild

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i bumped into some familiar characters in the (oh, so green) elevator at MCG's children's hospital yesterday.

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my boy, my work buddies and i went camping at clarks hill lake saturday night. we waited out a thunderstorm, witnessed a beautiful golden sunset, then chatted by a fire under the stars until late night.

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last week, over five days, i spent about 70 hours at Augusta National, hiking up the lush green hills with a 400mm and a 600mm, shooting The Masters.a good golf photo generally includes action and a facial expression.however, my edit from the tournament is actionless, and almost faceless.although the majority of what i shot was action, the less obvious scenes piqued my interest.i give you, The

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being a photo staffer at a newspaper in Augusta, Georgia, Masters Week is always looming in the future until BAM! it hits you. 14 hours a day, day after day hiking up the rolling luscious green hills of Augusta National with a 600mm over your shoulder.my town changes. it's crawling with strangers asking for directions. traffic is backed up. restaurants have long waits to be seated. the golf gods

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