Broken Groundglass

Journey to South Africa

zsallen — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:05:40 +0000

In a week I will be on my way to Jo’burg South Africa for the start of the 2010 Fifa World Cup with my former professor, and native South African, Ian van Coller as well as my good friend Auggie Cary. Ian van Coller’s work primarily explores post-apartheid South Africa, and our upcoming trip will be an extension of his previous work. Our primary focus will be to photograph the soccer fans at the games, but we also intend to document the social landscape surrounding the events. Auggie and I are just along for the ride to help make Ian’s project the best it can be. I just finished the first stage of our website, so make sure to check back in a little over a week when we began uploading images from our trip.

South West Photography Pilgrimage

zsallen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:17:51 +0000

I just got back from a trip to the American Southwest with a fellow photographer and friend Brian McGeogh. We drove all the way down to Tuscon to see the New Topographics show and stopped just about everywhere in between to make photographs. I believe between the two of us we used:

4.5 rolls of 35mm slide film

15 rolls of 120mm

and 36 4×5′s

getting the film back tomorrow and will post images as they get processed. Here are some celluars from the trip.

From the Archives

zsallen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:57:48 +0000

Three Portraits from the Porch

Photopolymer Tests

zsallen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:42:31 +0000

I have been working with the Teton Artlab to produce some Intaglio prints from Photopolymer plates. This portrait of artist Aaron Wallis was taken with my 4×5″ and made into a positive via inkjet transparency film. I have yet to make a calibrated curve for the process, but that should come soon. Travis Walker helped me print a set of proofs, and showed me how to do a “viscosity print” which is the one with yellow relief. I plan to expand on this process and make a new body of black and white work to go with it, hopefully ending up in a book form.

Roommate Portraits

zsallen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:21:19 +0000

Portraits made earlier today with 4×5″ black and white film and natural light. More to come soon…

zsallen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:25:17 +0000

zsallen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:57:29 +0000

These are some new digital images from Roseland taken along side my 4×5 to help me organize way-points and have a second record. I am glad to be back photographing in the area, and to see that the construction has yet to began (seems like the recession has slowed down the process). I should have my film back in the next couple of months.

have being

zsallen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:26:33 +0000

I am finishing up a set of these mini books tonight that I have been working on for a while. This one is titled “have being”: it contains 18 photographs made from 35mm slides, printed on museo bookmaking paper. This is the start to three part mini-book series containing photographs from my time in Jackson. I will eventually produce two more mini-books to finish the series. The series will be completed by a larger handmade book that will hold all three books. Each book is hand stitched in an edition of 10, signed by me of course. The books will continue to become more elaborate with screen printed covers, altered designs, and loose prints. This book is available for $10,

zsallen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:08:12 +0000

This is prototype for my new mini book, currently untitled, pages measuring 4.25″x 5.5″, and is a collection of 35mm slides taken in my first couple months in Jackson. Still some work to be done, but I’m excited about it so far

zsallen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:46:36 +0000