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Children of Weegee [Flickr]
Children of Weegee Fortnight [la pura vida]
I’ve been receiving a fair amount of emails from photographers recently, which I don’t mind. Of course, I can’t feature everyone who sends work in, but I enjoyed Javier Izquierdo work and thought it was nicely edited, maybe some of you disagree. The above photographs are from the ‘Dear Diary’ series, which a bit random, but there are some nice photographs in there. I normally don’t gravitate to somber pieces on death, but his “Francisca Femenias. Death after life” series was well done, and almost peaceful.
If you have a series of work that you think fits the LPV sensibility, please feel free to shoot me an email.
All photographs ©Peter Baker
Peter Baker is a graphic designer, programmer and photographer based in Michigan. I’ve admired his work for a few years now and have always been impressed with his level of consistency. If you follow his work, you’ll quickly learn that he’s a man on the move who always seems to be road tripping somewhere across the globe.
You’re a Michigan native whose made his way around the county. What was your initial inspiration for leaving Michigan, and where did you go first?
Everyone wants to leave their home “place” at some point. I first moved to Chicago in my early twenties, then San Francisco and Oakland, California for my late twenties. But as you live anywhere for a length of time, you start looking for greener pastures, and recently moving back to Michigan, having had some distance for a while, has really made me appreciate it like I never had before. Also, as my career has developed, and I have more and more control over my time and priorities, having a home-base in a relatively less expensive area of the country has let me travel more extensively and choose projects more selectively.
