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christopher rodriguez's sketches, process and news

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A few from a hike near Mill Valley CA, 2020⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #myfeatureshoot #unvaeljournal #somewheremagazine #ifyouleave #spacelessgallery #archivecollectivemag #ignant #lucecurated #phroommagazine #thetaxcollection #soundvision_mag #rentalmag #opendoorsgallery #verybusymag #tendermagazine #humbleartsfoundation #oftheafternoon #espiritmag #exploreobserveshare #justifiedmagazine #flakphoto #minimalzine #gominimalmag #lensculture #indiependentmag #dreamermagazine #onbooooooom #apricotmagazine #artclassified #dipseatrail https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyNHLyvosK/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Nice little feature on @booooooom today…🙏👋💛 Thank you!!! Repost below: 🔥 Inspired by early 19th century naturalist Alexander Humboldt, photographer Christopher Edward Rodriguez (@chrisrod_studio) photographs well-trodden landscapes through new eyes, reflecting on our evolving relationship to a fundamentally changed nature. “The world today is very different from the one Humboldt documented, as every corner of the earth has been seen or altered by human use,” he explains. “There are pollutants blanketing every inch of every landscape. Our relationship to nature has been inverted, because ironically the future of environmentalism will be paved by human interventions in nature.” “Afterlife is a way of visualizing landscapes of the future by thinking about how someone from the past would look at the landscape now,” he continues. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Rodriguez uses artificial lighting to subvert our expectations and challenge the representational qualities of color. “A relevant landscape photograph should be fabricated as much as it is seen,” he elaborates. “As Stewart Brand noted, in the 19th century the act of discovery was about finding and in the 21st century the act of discovery is about making.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CSh2rX_FZCt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Trip to the zoo the other day 🐊⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ #myfeatureshoot #unvaeljournal #somewheremagazine #ifyouleave #spacelessgallery #archivecollectivemag #ignant #lucecurated #phroommagazine #thetaxcollection #soundvision_mag #rentalmag #opendoorsgallery #verybusymag #tendermagazine #humbleartsfoundation #oftheafternoon #espiritmag #exploreobserveshare #justifiedmagazine #flakphoto #minimalzine #gominimalmag #lensculture #indiependentmag #dreamermagazine #onbooooooom #apricotmagazine #artclassified #zoo (at Audubon Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJr6wXF3Bv/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Valles Caldera Fire, 2013. Happy 🌎 day. Lets take care of it. It’s the only one we’ve got. ✌️ (at Valles Caldera) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-8JOqlx0R/?igshid=zgg4fbzixnfq

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🌿 Swing by and check out “Wildflowers and Fever Dreams” a two-person exhibition with @naomikawanishireis and me⁠⁠ @chrisrod_studio at @transmitternyc , curated by @carlgunhouse ! Open today 3-6pm. More details below✌️⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ —⁠⁠ These photographs are all recently made in 2020 and are an extension of my series Afterlife, where I make pictures in the guise of 19th century explorer Alexander Humboldt as a way to view the landscape as though it has never been seen before. This perspective frames a seen landscape as strange again and lets me experiment with representations of the natural world. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Transmitter is open weekends from 3-6pm and by appointment. Masks are required. In observance of New York's Covid-19 safety procedures, viewing is limited to one group at a time, up to 4 per group.⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ .⁠⁠ #afterlife #alexanderhumboldt #syntheticlandscape #anthropocene #landscapeartifacts #transgenic #ecosystem #colorphotography #goldenspike #measure #landscapefutures #otherworldly ##lifeanddeath #nature #naturephotograph #plastocene #syntheticage #landscapephotography ⁠#indiependentmag #newcolorphotography⁠⁠ #spacelessgallery #archivecollectivemag #oftheafternoon #espiritmag #flakphoto #onbooooooom #artclassified #humbleartsfoundation #anthropocene #natureabstraction (at Transmitter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0MxFHl0fV/?igshid=1nz1erln3vnpc

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yesterday morning’s #supermoon

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Tonight‼️Cool off with some beers and great art @ Foley galley, 59 Orchard street. Curated by @josephdeslercosta and @engramination

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Got a nice writeup in The New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/christopher-rodriguez

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Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York online auction ending tomorrow at 3pm, Please bid on an image to support this amazing organization!

https://paddle8.com/work/christopher-rodriguez/80316-larissa-in-the-pool-la/

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Please join me at the reception!  October 28, 6-8pm 

@ Sasha Wolf Gallery, 70 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002

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Excited to be a part of this collaboration and share a spread with @joseph_meloy in Issue #2 of Yo-New York! Each artist's work gets divided in half and paired with another participant. Available at the NY Art Book Fair this weekend at MoMA PS1 at the @conveyorarts @8ballzinezone booth. Thanks @charlierubin ⚡️ #yonewyork #nyabf #nybaf15 #nybaf2015 #nyartbookfair

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test strips

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Broken House, (Aftermath of Katrina), New Orleans, 2005

I wanted to share an image from a series I shot after the storm.  It’s been 10 years since Katrina and my city has really come a long way, though in many ways it still has a long way to go.   It is a different city than it used to be, but deep down, the spirit is the same.  Thank you to everyone who visits, lives and loves New Orleans. 

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#oldfaithful in brooklyn today

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At The Movies, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

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Larissa’s Hands, Baja, 2014