Brooks Dierdorff

1.13.2010

1.09.2010

Celine Clanet at Blue Sky

Just this weekend I saw a great show by the french photographer Celine Clanet at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland. My friend and artist Nick Robles and I even got to see her speak about her work. We just happened to wandered into the gallery only a half hour before she was to give her talk. If you are in the area it is definitely worth checking out.

Cool film by Alex Roman

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

1.03.2010

Revolution is upon us

My friend and writer Brian Loo recently posted this on his facebook page:

"A fundamental and comprehensive revolution in how we perceive nature and our relationship to it is long overdue."

I was excited to know that something which held such importance for me was also important to others.

In these images I have sought out landscapes that contain evidence of human interactions and then have removed them in photoshop.

Not as a statement of a return to nature, but as a way to heighten the viewers awareness as tothe ways in which we interact with the landscape.

Hasta La Victoria Siempre.

12.29.2009

Happy Holidays!!!

My friend Dan told me about this website and I had to share it.

http://www.sketchysantas.com/

12.01.2009

The Most Viewed Dierdorff Photo EVERRRR!!!!!!!

I don't know it happened.

But it happened.

One of my photos is on Jackson Pollack's Wikipedia page.

I was doing research for an art history paper and ended up on Jackson Pollack's Wikipedia page. I scrolled down a bit and saw a photo of one of Pollacks paintings in the New York MOMA. I said to myself, "Hey, that image looks familiar..."

Then I looked a little closer at the image and said to myself, "Hey, that woman in the photo looks kinda like my mom."

"...wait...that is my mom!!! And I took that photo!"

From my best guess whoever posted the photo got it off my facebook page when I had an a photo album from a trip to New York a couple years ago.

How bout that.

My mom is the one reading the map.

Somebody get me an agent.