Gilad Koriski's Photography blog
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I’ll be showing my latest toy series at:
Sabor 2 Café 708 East Colorado Blvd. Pasadena. 91101
from November 16 to December 31. The place is open every day from 7AM to 9PM.
Since there’s not going to be an official opening, if you’d like to meet me there please drop me a line and we can hang out.
Sometimes it feels as if all the elements in nature just try to please you.
It was a wonderful and exciting afternoon, and by the time I left the scene, I had these three Images. there is no digital compositing or complicated photo manipulation here, these compositions needed only a few minor darkroom enhancements (dodging and burning).
These images appeared in my Venice, CA exhibition named “Consummation – Where Mother Earth and Father Sky Meet”
Here’s a glimpse at some of the other images from the exhibition.
Handling this little old celluloid baby, while setting up the shot, made me think about the child who first received it as a present.
Was it for Christmas, or a birthday, or just because she/he was the apple of their parents eyes. It made me think about the happiness it brought them, little sparkles of joy on their life’s timeline, and how they are probably no more… and the home of this and other toys I shoot, is a box or a drawer.
I’m happy I can put it in the spotlight again.
Growing up as a photographer, I found Irving Penn to be an amazing master to learn from, I was studying his images very carefully hoping to better my photography.
Among many observations, I found his trash images to be a great inspiration for choosing photo subjects. This is a humble homage to a truly great master.
I’ve found these shards a few years ago on the road, right by the curb, it seemed to be a worthy subject. In my car, I happened to have one of these thick brown envelops, I scooped the fragments in, insect wings and all, and drove away. This envelope was a home for these fragments until yesterday.
This is the horrifying story of little miss Muffet, brought to you in the shape of a little night lamp from the ’50s.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
A cheerfully colored silly little band, this Lil’ hoedown Abner windup toy from 1945 was assembled from a few sources since there are not many complete sets available. I didn’t want to neglect the backside of the piano because it’s pretty sweet and has Oleman Mose drawn on it (quite pleaz!), so I decided to compose it in the background, toning it down so it will not overwhelm the main subject.
The brain is always searching for recognizable patterns, it wants to make sense of what’s presented to it.
When working with abstract materials, what I do is help my brain uncover the obscure and bring it forward.