Working Title: Vital Fluid, by Laura Miner

Using fruit punch concentrate and chocolate syrup, I made another attempt at representing blood in my photographs. As promised from my last post, my subject matter is less reality based. My instinct as a macro photographer was to go for the David Levinthal route.

Laura Miner ©2011

Photographing small objects and toys, essentially playing with them, but creating a very sinister game out of it; that's what a majority of my photographs are about. Making sets and manipulating the common associations of objects get's me amped about photography.

These images are creepy in an obvious way. The blood is in your face, and the deer's plasticity is unavoidable. Now that I've gotten these images under my belt, the next step for this project is to continue to use the figurines, make realistic sets, and use "blood" (whatever that may be) in a way that will be unsettling without throwing it in the viewer's face.

I also made some sculpture boxes with phlebotomy paraphernalia. The needles and such were given to me to mentally prepare for an imminent blood test. I had my blood drawn, -- it went well -- and to truly represent my conquest, I sculpted the tools into art objects.

Tourniquet Laura Miner ©2011                Phlebotomy Laura Miner ©2011

Come to my website to see more of these images and a really tasteless animated GIF.

Max & Oscar: By Traverse Day Robinette

My time with Max and Oscar was out of this world. We went to the far reaches of our imagination and back. For nine months I documented their adventures, which I was lucky to take part in. I’m still in the editing process and it has been hard for me to part with certain images for most are filled with great memories. The selection of images is from the winter months, where we go sledding, make robot puppets and explore the zoo. By the next post I should have my edit down and finally start work on sequencing. The final product of this project is a book, which I plan to hand deliver to the boys and their family in Chicago.

Traverse Day Robinette, Franklin Park Zoo © 2011

Traverse Day Robinette, Oscar Building Robot Puppets © 2011

Traverse Day Robinette, Oscar © 2011

Traverse Day Robinette, Max Sledding Down the Driveway © 2011

Traverse Day Robinette, Max © 2011