Summer seems long ago. At least now we’re past the solstice, and on are wending our slow way back to more sunlight. Speaking of which, here are a couple of summer portraits, of a young lady from Lake Oswego. Doesn’t that sunlight on her shoulders make you warm all over? It makes me want to...
Every Saturday night for the last couple of years I’ve driven out to East Portland to Sarah Modrall’s house. Within a short time, 30-50 street kids converge on her house, and we spend the next several hours eating a good meal, talking, studying the Bible, singing, hanging out. It’s an amazing time, really. This weekend...
Fritz,
just found your blog via Beth’s myspace. I was lost in it for hours! It is good to see some of your photography and have a little link to your life. I will be back often and promise to comment when I’m here. I vow not to be a blog stalker.. .. ..
your cuz,
alicia
Back in August I applied for a visual arts grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). It was the first real grant I’ve applied for, requiring extensive preparation, a couple classes, lots of thought, calculations, and organization. You submit all of this, along with samples of your work, and then you wait. Three...
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Fritz, I caught your work at my Be Nourished appt. yesterday. So hauntingly beautiful, heart wrenching and honest. Loved every one of them. Wish I could get married again so I have you take my portrait! Take care.
Wonderful and very well deserved. Can’t wait to see more of this work.
Congratulations, Fritz! Very exciting.
I love watching people, and faces are what make my artistic boat float. Last week I met Laura, who works at Print Arts Northwest (a wonderful gallery in Portland’s Pearl District), and decided I ought to include her in my Women’s Faces series (which just became a series, because this is the second one shot...
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Both of these are great, but I really like the top one. She looks like she is about to go someplace fun. And her eyes stand out much more in this pic too.
Goatherder, Nellore, India In the spring of 2005, I had the opportunity to travel to southeast India to photograph medical teams working in coastal villages hit by the tsunami. I documented teams giving free medical clinics; helping rebuild (from the ground up) a destroyed, relocated village; dedicating new wells; and working in an orphanage in...
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