Chinatown NY
Photograph by Matthew Goddard-Jones
At last I put a big picture (1m2) on my facade. It is a picture of one of my new upcoming projects about meat and bondage.
Today I took my students outside and we practiced the system of Strobist. I found, in a park near Antwerp, a small forest where we had prepared three bare strobes. Aperture f4-4, 5 shutterspeed 1 /125. It was a cloudy day with a little bit of rain. Thanks to Guy who took the pictures.
Today I visited my granddaughters, one of them made something nice: a Locomotive Breath with carbon.
During the shooting of the catalog for one of my clients I photographed the work one of my favorite artists: Walasse Ting (Shanghai, October 13, 1929 – New York, May 17, 2010)was a Chinese-American painter. He left China in 1946, lived briefly in Hong Kong and settled in Paris in 1952. There he met Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky. In 1957 he went to America and settled in New York, where his work was influenced by pop art and abstract expressionism. From 1989 he lived alternately in New York and Amsterdam, where he and Appel had a studio. In 2002 he became comatose after a stroke, after which he was placed in a nursing home in Amstelveen. Two weeks before his death he was moved to New York by his children, where he died at the age of 80. Ting worked with acrylics on rice paper. He painted mostly half naked women who were surrounded by
The lunch for today: something from Panos, a Paninibread with chicken with veggie and special sauce.