I have been thinking a lot lately about filters. Mainly our eyes and our views and how this filters which images we capture. How we see the world. How I see flowers.

I find the two above photos of flowers resonating.

(If you recognize these images and know the photographers please do let me know - clearly I grabbed these while in a late-night internet vortex...)

NATURE MAGIQUE / Guy Bourdin

Well this certainly would make a fine gift for (me!) the holidays! A published book of late photographer Guy Bourdin exploring nature & magic. Goodness gracious sooooo good!

'The book explores the theme of nature in Bourdin’s work which seems to have had an underlying influence.'

Get your copy (and one for me) from the wonderful independent publisher Jane & Jeremy (always a favorite stand at Los Angeles Art Book Fair).

Flowerworks

FLOWERWORKS / Sarah Illenberger

Loving this Flowerworks series by Sarah Ilenberger. Paring two wonderful gifts in life: flowers + fireworks! You must see more of her work here.

Watercolour / GILLES BENSIMON

all fujiflex prints by Gilles Bensimon

If you're experiencing hot weather like we are here in Los Angeles, then perhaps these underwater flower prints by world renown fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon might cool you off. The photographer spent two years shooting these fresh blooms underwater, all of which he chose himself. His exhibit (2013) appropriately titled Watercolours was his first venture into fine art photography. Don't they look like watercolors or modern day representations of impressionists' paintings? So refreshing to see flowers used in this medium.

I’ve always been obsessed with water, even in the fashion pictures I’ve done. I swim every day. I spend so much time in the water, some days four or five hours. And I’ve also always been passionate for flowers. I love gardens. 

                                                                   -G.B.

Michael A. Muller / Threading in the Choirs

I so rarely like to be photographed, let alone a close-up. I really do enjoy being the one behind the lens. However, my good friend Michael A. Muller took a few shots that I happen to think capture me. 

More importantly, check out Michael's beautiful eye and excellent playlists on his site Threading in the Choirs. He is one of my absolute favs - a constant source of inspiration. His photographs really speak from the heart. It's as though he captures the feeling of the moment through his lens. Shoots straight from the heart, you can feel it. You'll recognize his work too - he is quite busy shooting for every publication under the sky. 

Cheers to you Michael A. Muller - keep the good vibes flowin!

(and thank you for the wodnerful pics)

xx

FLOWER MAN / Ken Hermann

Aren't these images lovely? My friend Michael passed these Ken Hermann photos along my way this morning and I found them refreshing and delightful! In other words, I had to share them with you! The rest of his body of work on his site is quite stellar too. Enjoy!

*thank you so much Michael

The Summer Print Shop / BOOK STAND

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Lovely work by such a talented group of artists and friends. Lucky for us BOOK STAND is having a summer print shop! Check it out here.                                                                           

                                                                                   one.    /   David Black
 
                                                                                  two.   /    Michael A. Muller

                                                                        three. + four.   //  Valeda Beach Stull

                                                                                    five.  /  Sanne Frank

                                                                                 six.   /   Lauren Spencer King   

                                                                              seven.  /   Rebekah Miles

...to name a few of the artists, but a handful more on the BOOK STAND site!

Perfect prints for summer indeed.

... and a few more black & white 35mm shots.

I so rarely share intimate photos, but I find these so tender and heartfelt that I wanted to share.

(the second to last shot is of my new goddaughter, Anouk Simone)

I get so caught up with plants and flowers sometimes that it's nice to catch up on my photography. I know that I'm quiet about it but I do have a photography site here

FLOWERS FOR THE MOON

 

 

 

Friends! Very excited to attend this event that my friend Lani Trock created and curated for The Standard, Hollywood's artist-of-the-month installation! Please do come by and say hello to me if we cross paths. Her live plants and beautiful photos of flowers will surely cast a spell on you! See you there ;)

 

flowers for the moon.

thursday, 4/24 at 7pm

the standard, hollywood. 

8300 w sunset blvd.

west hollywood, ca 90069

featuring photographs by:

bella medrano
benjamin heath
brent paul pearson
chantal anderson
christian sorensen hansen
dabito
daniel velasco
emily ho
esteban schimpf
hamish robertson
jared richard
jena malone
jessie webster
jimmy marble
julie lee
lani trock
lauren randolph
saul germaine
sera lindsey
stella berkofsky
teddy rippleyasmine khatib

and an animated short by:

georgia tribuiani

Diana Scherer / Nurture Studies

top four from Nurture Studies / next two from Flowerfield / last image from Bunch 

Very excited to share Diana Scherer's work with you. She's an artist / photographer / collector and her work and process is one that I appreciate and admire greatly. The above photos are of wildflowers and weeds grown from seed and taken from her garden (love this) in the Netherlands and patiently manipulated, sometimes for up to six months, in vases so that the soil and roots are coerced to take the shape of the vessel. When the moment is right, she breaks the vases and 'captures' her pieces. Thus, collecting the fleeting moment of a bloom in it's prime before it fades and dies. After shooting it she puts it back in her garden (again, I so appreciate this entire process). 'That Scherer has tended and reworked the root system before releasing the plant back to let nature run its own course, once again echoes the cyclical aspects of nature, of life and death, and of regeneration and degeneration.'

“The ambiguous nature of collecting intrigues me,” she says. “It involves loving attention as well as a fanatical desire to control. The collector documents and stores the object of his desire in a systematic and detached way. I also treat and present my work in an objective manner, even though working with nature has an emotional charge for me.”  - D. Scherer

read more about her process and work here

see (please do) more of her work here

Debbi Carlos' ORCHIDS

and look at Debbi Carlos' orchids!

such a great little flower-photo-zine of an orchid show.

so neat

and a few more shots from our recent trip to Iceland. Light leaks, expired 35mm film and an old camera are the only effects in these shots. So dreamy I keep dreaming of going back.

happy weekend friends!

Fly Me to the Moon / Verve Muisc Shoot

Just got some expired 35mm film back that I had shot over the Fall and thought that I would share. Nothing to do with flowers ;)

FLY ME TO THE MOON / VERVE RECORDS

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Directed by : Claire Cottrell

Featuring : Jasmine Croissant

Set Design : Lauren Spencer King