You are invited to join me at the Portland Art Museum, as I speak about my fine art photography work, this Wednesday, May 16, at 12pm.
The talk is open to the public and is part of the Photography Council’s monthly “Brown Bag Lunch Talks,” a series of informal presentations by Northwest photography luminaries, held on the third Wednesday of the month from Noon – 1 p.m. in the Stevens Room at the Portland Art Museum. The event is free and open to the public, and you are welcome to bring your lunch.
Please join me as I talk about my life and work as an artist over the past 20 years.
For more information, visit the Portland Art Museum website.
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Astra Velum is currently on display at Boston’s Panopticon Gallery. Featured as part of the What’s in a Face show, from March 2-April 10, it’s already garnering some press:
-Review of Astra Velum in What’s in a Face show at Panopticon Gallery, Boston: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1569573182/Panopticon-Gallery-photo-exhibit-features-faces
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Tilt Focus Portrait Photography: Behind the Scenes with Fritz Liedtke from Lensbaby on Vimeo.
I’ve known Craig Strong for about a decade, since I stumbled upon him at a garage sale in his living room. I’d heard his name before, and when I saw the photos on his wall, I asked him, “Are you the Craig Strong of Strong Photography?” And he was.
Craig is a great guy, inquisitive and outside-of-the-box in just about every way. Over the next couple years, aside from talking shop with him, he’d also show me these little lenses he was making out of vacuum hoses and duct tape. I’d fiddle with them, give him feedback, and next time I saw him he’d have another version. Eventually he started the company Lensbaby, and the rest is history. I’ve been beta testing lenses here and there ever since.
In the digital age, I’ve really missed the tilt/shift capabilities of my 4×5, but haven’t wanted to give up the convenience of digital capture and workflow. So I’ve been asking Craig to make a sharp, fast, tiltable lens for some time. Over the past few years, he’s supplied me with various mock-up versions of this concept to test out. Finally this past year, they sent me a pre-production version to really run through its paces. And I loved it. I shot with it at every assignment and on every personal shoot that came up. The images were gorgeous; just what I wanted.
This winter, Lensbaby contacted me to ask if they could produce a documentary video featuring me using their wonderful lenses, and I readily agreed. We had a great time creating this piece with their wonderful staff.
They are also featuring an interview with me on the Lensbaby blog. Check it out as well!
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It's been a busy month around here, with a variety of interviews, articles, shows, and purchases in the works. Most recently, I was interviewed by Susan Burnstine about my series Astra Velum, and by Paul Pastor on my fine art photography work in general. Lensbaby also just put out an interview they did with me about my fine art and commercial photography.
Read the interview with Susan on her blog Underexposed.
Read the interview with Paul on his blog Sparking Creativity.
Read the interview with Lensbaby on their blog: Lensbaby Pro Spotlight.
F-Stop magazine also selected one of my images for their group exhibition The Portrait.
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I’m pleased to announce that the current (Sept/Oct) issue of View Camera Magazine features 9 pages of my series Welcome to Wonderland: Exploring Adolescence. I photographed the series with a Tachihara 4×5 camera, using Polaroid 665 and Tmax films.
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