Posts by parkejladd
Portrait of an African Woman–Mozambique Photo Ed.
This past January I traveled to Mozambique with Africa Water Is Life and Art4Africa to document the water situation and learn more about Mozambican people and their beautiful culture. In order to maintain the integrity of our upcoming art show, please understand that most of the photos shown here will probably not be included in the gallery. Simply consider this a glimpse of a glimpse of...
Read MoreBlog Photography!
Blog photography, or Blogography, as Paul Sherar over at The Good Light calls it, is about capturing the essential, authentic elements of your subject in an innovative way so as to help them build online recognition and curiosity. Or maybe it’s just about taking really nice photos for people so they don’t have to crop their faces out of old high school images or rely on those tacky,...
Read MoreCoffee Stained Salvation
Coffee Stained Salvation by Parke Ladd From three years of caffeinated mornings spent on the run–chased by time, a lingering boss and bills still unpaid–dark, circular stains from overflowing clay coffee cups placed atop the metal, blue roof of his 4-door sedan, wipe away in the wind as he drives this morning to work. He cracks his window open to the kind of temperature and...
Read MoreThe Outdoor Pineapple Eating Season Is Coming Soon (hopefully)!
It’s still cold in Indiana. Still very cold. But we haven’t given up hope that some day soon the sun will show itself, the cold will depart from our barren land, and the good people of Indiana will once again be able to spend time outside! We will leave our houses of hibernation and venture into the fresh air. We will spend time with loved ones underneath the stars at night. We will...
Read MoreHARMONY–An Experiment in Community & Art
Quinn and I created this piece in collaboration with The ArtSpace and IndyMetro Church for the upcoming HARMONY Show opening this Friday as part of IDADA’s First Friday. Our piece, along with 80 others from artists around the community, will hang to form the word HARMONY! HARMONY has its grand opening this Friday, March 4th from 6pm-9pm. For your...
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