Great advice, thank you T.

Confidently follow your muse. It should serve you well.

SF Chronicle

Arts of Fashion runway images made it into SF Chronicle today! 

Chile with Bessa

What struck me most about Chile is the importance of family, friends, and going with the flow. Keep it simple, and don't stress about things that don't matter. Thank you beautiful people for such a warm welcome. 

Backstage of the runway show

I can't deny it.. I love my bessa and I shoot differently with it. 

Arts of Fashion Runway Show

Shooting the Arts of Fashion/Art Institute runway show at the Bently Reserve last night was great. Not always easy to keep up with those quick models, but there were some incredible designs on the runway! 

In a private home

Thank you Cynthia for displaying my work in your gorgeous home! I'm honored to be amongst your incredible pieces of art! 

Tanya Bello

Tanya was so great to work with - she has such a beautiful quality of movement that is at the same time lifted but rooted, stable but full of release. Very elegant. Thank you Tanya. 

For a Happy French Scorpion

"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in 'sadness,' or 'joy,' or 'regret.' Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, 'the happiness that attends disaster.' Or: 'the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy.' I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins with middle age.' I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.' "
- Jeffrey Eugenides from Middlesex


Great passage that hits the nail on the head. So true that these terse words hardly invoke the feelings they claim to. His more complex versions conjure up much more truth about feelings!  

I have a book!

Just released my exhibition book from the Exquisite Abandon series I showed at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach and 625 Gallery in San Francisco! You can own it for $45. Preview and order the book HERE. 

ODC Architecture of Light

This was a great performance where odc made the audience move through the great new building. It felt much more like a conversation rather than a static one-sided performance. 

DWELL

Tanya B. just told me she found my images on dwell.com! Check out the slideshow.

NY Times x 2

NY Times 2 days in a row! Plus a stranger in lower haight telling me I looked like I'm from NY. Nice. 

NY Times

Article here on ODC theater opening.. woo! Article in print October 4 if you get a chance to pick up the paper.

Exquisite Abandon Write-up

Emmaly Wiederholt thank you so much for an incredible write-up on my opening! You have a beautiful way with words, and I love what you see in my work. Check out her blog: Dance in the Bay Area for more enticing dance reviews. 

Still Motion

Falling is a weighty subject. From the thrill of rushing wind to the fear of pain and death, falling intrigues and captivates. There’s something about the utter lack of control that creates such a guttural response. Falling is a contextual action: Why is a person falling? From what is a person falling? To what is a person falling? If we take away these contexts we are left with only the fall itself, a moment in space and time characterized by lack of control.

Margo Moritz’ photography exhibit “Exquisite Abandon” explores falling using beautiful, fashionable, emotionless models suspended in free fall. All contextual variants are left out of the picture. There is something almost anarchical about the photographs; there is no sense of order or justice I can latch onto. Devoid of anything but the fall itself, Margot Moritz’ fallers have seemingly succumbed to their fate in a numbed state. I cannot identify with these lovely fallers. Falling fills me with fear and dread and all evidence of this strong gut instinct appears absent in them. Are these pictures beautiful or aberrant distortions of reality?

Other photographs in the series include a nude woman who is lit like the surface of the moon, her body oftentimes obscured. Although she is lit with a sense of modesty, close-ups of the woman’s body are ambiguous: is that a shoulder? A knee? Thus the photographs are non-contextual representations of a naked woman’s body.

The remaining photos of the exhibit are blurred images of a woman dancing against a white backdrop. The blank white setting lends a sense of airiness and space. Again, these photos have no context. Simply a woman dancing, there is no where or why.

The photographs leave me baffled; they are beautiful and eerie. The utter lack of context is bewildering. They play with elements of dance (bodies, movement) but beyond these rudiments they have little in common with dance, which unfolds and has meaning through time and space. Photography is limited in how it can explore dance as a subject. The transitions before and after the snap that comprise a dance are absent in a photograph. Although dance and photography both explore ephemeral natures, they explore it in very different ways: photography aims to capture the ephemeral; dance aims to move through it. Margo’s study of movement in “Exquisite Abandon” is a tribute to dance in the capturing of bodies in space. At the same time it bears little semblance to dance as it shuns context, place, and time.

Go see Margo Moritz’ exhibit at 625 Sutter Street, on display through September 30th. It’s brief, it’s free, and it’s food for the eyes and mind.

Stylist Shannon Dunn

Shannon your new site looks great - I'm thrilled to be there! 

The fear and joy of flying on the REM blog

Thanks to the REM Eyewear blog for the great article on flying featuring my work!

Almost 13

Exquisite Abandon / 625 Gallery / September 2

Creative Boys Club found me

Happy couple

Accepted into FLIGHT exhibition in Vermont

This image got accepted into the Vermont Photography Workshop / PhotoPlace Gallery juried exhibition with the theme of flight. A printed book will be coming out soon! Check out the rest of the show here.

SF Mag Best of the Bay July Issue

RealPolitik

A British hip hop artist saw my work in the Festival of Arts last year and is using my image on his album! An unexpected but great connection across platforms and countries.

Diego / Yoga

Hellos...

...and Goodbyes

SF / Brooklyn

Heidi / Sausage

The Unwanteds

Bessa

Iranian, American, Polish, Brazilian