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Festival Sinergiarte (Desfile)

admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:09:59 +0000

Every year the amazing group of artists who live in and around San Pancho and form the Colectivo put on a festival, Sinergiarte. Every year we have a theme and this years was Mestizaje or mixed cultures (it’s actually much deeper than that, but for the purposes of this blog I’m going with it). This year was a bit different in that we had a week of events leading up to the two day festival. I’m finally getting around to post these and I’m going to have to break it up into two posts. Today is devoted to the parade and then Monday will be some highlights from the rest of the festival.

The amount of work that goes into an event like this is insane. Especially to a group of artists and musicians who live in Mexico and love that one of the perks is not necessarily having to work every day. On top of that pretty much everyone in Mexico starts to celebrate the holidays as soon as school lets out and doesn’t stop until the 6th of January. It’s basically two full weeks of festivities all day long. Even with those obstacles in our way we still managed to pull it off.

Looking through these photos it’s so easy to see why I live here. I seriously love my life.

Lots of film in this one. Kodak Portra 400 and some crossed processed Holgas going on.

Holgas.

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:21:03 +0000

I’be been loving my Holga lately. Here are some favorites of life at the beach over the past few months.

La Cruz.

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:37:47 +0000

I’m loving my new toy camera. Straight scan from a local place in Vallarta. Dirty scan+toy camera=love.

One from St. Lucia

admin — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:56:58 +0000

Love this little girl. All the rest coming Monday.

St. Lucia Holgas

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:31:29 +0000

San Pancho Days

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:48:04 +0000

In honor of it being the town fiestas in Sayulita here are some Holga shots from last years fiestas in San Pancho. There’s even one of me in there doing my absolute favorite activity of all time: throwing rocks at beer bottles in order to win cans of Modelo. Love. It.

The following cross-processed shots are from the rodeo the last night of the fiestas. A friend of mine was organizing it so I got to go hang out behind the scenes with the guys, my Holga, and a flash. I dig them.

Pimienta

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:20:43 +0000

Cutest dog ever? Possibly. Kodak Portra 800 also helps a bit. Contax 645. No post processing whatsoever. Ah film.

El Circo

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:15:14 +0000

I drove by this circus on the way back from Guadalajara and had to stop and take some shots. The colors just lend themselves perfectly to film and especially Kodak Portra.

Chosen Family

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:29:25 +0000

At Tannen and Peter’s game changing wedding there was a lot of talk about their chosen family. Who are totally awesome side note. (Yes I’m talking to you Jory and Dan) This is some of my mine. I am so incredibly lucky to have found them. To Luz and Gaelle specifically, I love you so much although I may not say it all the time. You are my chosen family.

All film. All Kodak. Portra 400 and Tri-x.

Navidad Polaroids.

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:16:18 +0000

As you read this I am driving down the coast to a pretty exciting shoot in Zihua. (More on that later.) Gotta love timed posts. I was just able to sneak it in while packing my equipment up.

Last year on Christmas Eve I took a bunch of polaroids with the Fuji Instamax I have which you can see here. It was such a success that I took some more this year with my Holga and polaroid back combo.