Joanne Carney at the Apple Store
679 North Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, IL
May 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM
We kicked off this year's ASMP Speaker Series at the
Apple Store with Joanne Carney and William Drake. Thank you to everyone who attended - we
had a great turnout!
Joanne Carney is a commercial photographer with 30 years
of experience in advertising and design.
She describes photography as the vehicle with which we can "create
reality the we way we see it " More
specifically, advertising portrays to viewers a "potential life
experience."
Joanne came to photography after experience as a director
in theatre. Early in her career as
a photographer, her work was mainly studio-oriented. In 1993, she met her husband,
architectural photographer William Drake, and they have been traveling together
ever since. Joanne likens taking
pictures in a foreign place with being an ambassador. When she photographs portraits, she
always makes sure that her models are conscious of the fact that the photo is
being taken, and that they receive compensation. Something she learned from her travels
is to always synchronize the time on her digital cameras - it makes it so much
easier to organize her photographs later!
Architectural photographer William Drake shoots on a
Kodachrome 64, even though there is only one lab in the US that processes this
film. In Bill's experience, film
has richer color and gradations than digital. He describes India as having incredible
light, which provides a "highly photographable atmosphere." He and Joanne traveled all over the
country, photographing temples, baths, sculptures and structures left over from
British colonization. Many of their
most interesting photographers were taken after they left their tour guide and
ventured out on their own. Visiting
villages not often visited by tourists, they created vibrant portraits of
temples, markets and other public places.
Some of their photographs show of the textures and vibrant colors of
laundry, umbrellas and trees.
Joanne captured the weekly markets as well as the tea
growing, rice and silkworm industries.
She was amazed that houses were made out of any imaginable material. Many
housing structures were erected at jobsites, designed to be shelters for workers
who travel from place to place. "It
was like the Three Little Pigs," she said. "A house made of straw right next to one of wood and one of brick." YiRan Liu
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