My series “Calendar Girls” is featured this week as a solo exhibition at the LIC Arts Open. To celebrate I had a reception last weekend and will have a small evening reception tomorrow night from 6-8pm. The gallery is open daily from noon-6 and will continue through Sunday, May 20th. This Saturday, May 19th, although I won’t be present, there will be a block party and open studios throughout the neighborhood. Hope to see you this week!
Artist Statement:
This is a portrait series featuring queer and lesbian identifying women shot during one whole day at the beach. The project began as a calendar for Autostraddle.com, the world’s most popular independently-owned lesbian culture website, which was founded by close friends of mine. The calendar, originally meant to increase visibility of queer women within a mainstream construct, grew into an annual portrait introspective. For this particular series, I sought to capture images that would reflect the subjects’ feelings of freedom and comfort in their own skin. I was particularly interested in natural, uninhibited moments. I chose a simple expanse of sand and water where the horizon line is sometimes indistinguishable, which was the perfect setting for a very personal and focused look at each of these extraordinary women, among them a Miss California pageant contestant and a former Olympian.
As a photographer, documenting an entire day at the beach is a great challenge. The drastic change in light throughout the day and the ebb and flow of the tides adds an interesting contrast to an otherwise consistent series.
I loved coming away from this shoot knowing that many of these women are now friends, and I hope that these images reflect those bonds formed.
Robin Roemer, 2011
I photographed the lovely and beautiful Santigold last week for Logo’s New Now Next show. Her newest album “Master of My Make Believe” is on sale now. Here are a few results from the shoot.
Happy Halloween! For the past few days, I have had the pleasure to photograph before and after one of my favorite shows, Punchdrunks’s New York based Sleep No More, an interactive play that takes place on 6 levels of the McKitterick Hotel. Its MacBeth meets Hitchcock’s Rebecca, silent theatre meets interpretive dance meets unbelievable set design… While I can’t post images from inside the show (you need to see it in person!), here are some favorites from the past few nights of a special pre-show outside, images from the bar “Manderley”, and the amazing and sexy after-parties held special for the weekend of Halloween.
This is probably one of the hardest places I have had to photograph. Inside much of the space you cannot use flash. Things move quickly and for those of you who know camera-talk, you are shooting at 6400 ISO wide open at 1.2 much of the time. The lighting is crazy and there is fog everywhere! Not ideal conditions, but when you hit it just right, you can capture the amazing look and feel of the show. Enjoy!
I had the pleasure of once again photographing all-female, always-funny comedy troupe Candy Slice. You can follow the group’s performance schedule on their facebook page. More on the group and more photos can be found here.
My photographs from a Save the Children event with Julianne Moore were published in next month’s InStyle magazine! Julianne, who is an art ambassador for Save the Children, is a beautiful person inside and out and I was honored to be present to witness this heart-warming event. Read more about it in February’s issue of InStyle magazine!
