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11/29/11 WSJ: Excelsior District

Peter Earl McCollough — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:41:30 +0000

11/28/11 Untitled 110

Peter Earl McCollough — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:00:47 +0000

11/24/11 The Executive Barber Shop

Peter Earl McCollough — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:00:53 +0000

An assignment a few weeks ago brought me across Jason who cuts hair at The Executive Barber Shop down in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Jason is the real deal.

11/15/11 Leica #8 Blow Up

Peter Earl McCollough — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:24:37 +0000

From post #8 on the Leica Blog.

4/29/11 Untitled 106

Peter Earl McCollough — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:07:54 +0000

4/25/11 Thinking about color

Peter Earl McCollough — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:00:43 +0000

I almost always see photographs in black and white, but color street photography has a new appeal to me with summer on the way.

4/24/11 WSJ: Jejune Institute

Peter Earl McCollough — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:42:38 +0000

Article on the Urban Scavenger Hunt known as the Jejune Institute, created by Jeff Hull. I would love to describe the experience and the idea of the project. But it’s complicated, and better you find out for yourself.

Also, closure of the Jejune Institute.

“There’s the thing, and the name for the thing, and that’s one thing too many.” -Octavio Coleman Esq. ?

3/7/11 Chinese New Year Parade

Peter Earl McCollough — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:45:11 +0000

1/16/11 Leica Street Studies 1

Peter Earl McCollough — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:00:00 +0000

11/30/10 The Leica Project Award

Peter Earl McCollough — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:13:18 +0000

This summer I was invited to participate (thanks to Luceo) in LOOKbetween, an event created by Andrew Owen and Jenna Pirog, directors of the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. The idea behind the gathering was to bring emerging photographers together and let them share their ideas and show their work while the elders and the masters of the industry listened. Several awards were open to the photographers invited, one being The Leica Project Award. I submitted a collection of my street work rather confident it would be passed over and to my surprise, I was chosen. Leica has given me an M9, their new digital rangefinder, to complete a project of my choosing over the course of the next year. They understand the creative process quite well, and are giving me all the freedom in the world, which I’m very grateful for. It’s not everyday that someone hands you a beautiful camera and says, “go make pictures of whatever you want, we trust you.”

I received the camera a few weeks ago when I was in LA and I’m still familiarizing myself with it. I expect it’ll take a month or two for me to have seamless and spontaneous control of the camera. In the meantime, I’m rising to the challenge of taking a digital rangefinder to the streets and working on my manual focusing skills. As far as what I’ll be photographing the next year with this camera, I don’t know. I’ve written myself a long list of things to explore and I’m just going to see where it takes me. Here are a few frames from my first outings and the beginning of a new project. (Thanks to Justin Stailey at Leica USA for making this award a reality)