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I wear a necklace with a guitar pick from my friend Chloe, who was the first musician I ever took live photos of. She was my gateway into music photography, which has led to a lot of other things. People ask if I play music, but I don’t. The pick on the necklace just reminds me of why I got into photography—through music. One side of the pick is a star and the other side is Chloe’s album cover for “All the Same Ok."
Nov 15, 2022
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Jan 18, 2025
i don’t know many photographers but i really love her work and have followed her on instagram for a long time. everything she does is so creative and it’s so perfectly weird/scary/cool girl vibes. her shoots with chloe sevigny and alexa demie are really memorable to me
Jun 13, 2024
every time i post about something pertaining to a celebrity it feels so much like a punisher moment (phoebe bridgers ref 😕), because i’m like hey! idfk who you are but i painted you! wow! but it’s also that i just deeply appreciate a persons work, and think hey this is pretty cool i should share it! everything is a moral dilemma. anyway, enough ramblings, this is a portrait loosely centered around the image of sophie thatcher that i posted, which sparked this current train of thought.
Jun 3, 2025
Top Recs from @marcus-maddox
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Night Walk is one of my favorite photography books of the last decade. It’s an incredible document of the tumultuous Lower East Side in the 1980’s. Described as a “narrative of lost youth,” it incapsulates a raw energy in a specific moment in time. Rarely do I see still images so expressive, so intentionally chaotic but with an artistic authority. This book is a force, and it doesn’t have a lot of text which I love. Just purely moving imagery. The photos of the art scene resonate with me. It’s a reworking of the original book, Invisible City, which came out in 1988.
Nov 15, 2022
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This is a book of interviews with 12 pioneering artists who create photo books. It’s a long discussion about two of my deepest passions: photography and bookmaking. I found it because of the curator David Campany, and it is a must have for those who take their photography seriously. The most visceral interview is with the photographer Larry Clark, who talks about getting sued by the grandparents of a baby he photographed, leaving out pictures of sawed off shot guns, and his commitment to never making his friends look bad. There’s a lot of passages about book design, a range of photography styles, and the meaning of success. This book is a gold mine of insight, and I carry it with me like a bible.
Nov 15, 2022
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I’ve been following this middle-aged dad on Twitter for like 8 years now, and he’s so damn funny. I have no idea what he does for a living, or if he’s an actual professional comedian, but his tweets slap. He’s always making jokes about 1 upping rival dads and describing what being middle aged feels like. Anytime I open Twitter this guy makes me laugh.
Nov 15, 2022