Molly Landreth

Photography | Seattle + World Wide

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I love this photo so much. It just totally sums up why I enjoy and continue to photograph weddings. Love, family, community. Period. ❤️ #mollylandrethweddings #thecorsonbuilding (at The Corson Building)

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I had the pleasure of photographing this incredible wedding at one of my all time favorite places in Seattle a few weeks ago, The Corson Building. Not only was the venue and (obvs) the food, top notch, but this couple was one of the most beautiful and authentic that I have ever met. ❤️ #dreamjob #seattlewedding #mollylandrethweddings #thecorsonbuilding #weddingphotography (at The Corson Building)

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Prepping for the Butter & Scotch cookbook shoot with @jennyriffle and the @drunkbakers!! This may take the cake as the best gear bag I've ever packed! #butterandscotchcookbook #butterandscotch #mollylandrethphotography #drunkbakers

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So honored to have been invited to photograph this stunning wedding (and equally stunning couple!!) earlier this month at Carnation Tree Farm! #mollylandrethweddings #northwest #diywedding. A special thanks to my assistant @osnapitsmillie (at Carnation Tree Farm)

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Feeling so excited and honored to have photos featured in "Seattle Bride Magazine's, Best of 2015" issue, on stands now! Matt and Cory had an incredible wedding and certainly made an impression on their guests when Cory (and my brave assistant Megan Kennedy) arrived at the ceremony via seaplane!!

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Very excited to receive my copy of #Bookforum in the mail this morning! My photo project #Embodiment A Portrait of Queer Life in America is featured in their Summer issue on "Family Ties"!

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Fun photo shoot today with Ben Riley of #DeansForImpact for @educationweek Magazine. Thanks for braving the rain @benjaminjriley !

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Old archives, new discoveries. #Embodiment #QueerLifeInAmerica

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Finally diving into a book edit of Embodiment with the guidance of bff @jennyriffle! #photobook #selfpublishing #Embodiment #QueerLifeInAmerica #resolutions

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With all the craziness of the holiday season I forgot to post this little update.  A selection of photographs from Embodiment: A portrait of Queer Life in America were featured in the Russian edition of Esquire Magazine last month. Pretty cool. Check it out!

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One of my favorite memories of 2013 was a trip to Maui with my partner Kennedy. I packed four cameras and a big bag of expired film, and we just walked the beach morning and night to take it all in. Can't wait to get back there some day. Photo credit for the square Holga shots go to Kennedy. I used my uncle's old Canon F-1. 

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Sometimes I invite two photographers independently only to discover that they know each other and they decide to hook up to take part in ‘The Swap’. This was the case with Jenny Riffle (http://www.jennyriffle.com/) and Molly Landreth (http://mollylandreth.com/) both of whom I invited to take...

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My good friend Jenny Riffle and I had the opportunity to photograph each other last month for a photography project by Stuart Pilkington called #TheSwap. The concept is simple, two photographers photograph each other and create two portraits. Jenny and I have been friends since middle school and grew up taking photographs of each other. This was a pretty fun excuse to get back to our roots. Check it out!

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A beautiful reminder of the power of personal photography M J R - Collection 100 \ A history

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“What if I was a person who didn’t go to art school and wasn’t given that educational privilege? I would have been arrested, if I was just a person expressing myself that way, and didn’t have a curator. I thought what about if I was on drugs, or insane? It made me start thinking of things in a different way: that art is a shelter.” —Karen Finley

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That’s what happens when you’re actually living your life and you’re not in a race. What’s the race? To where? To [what] end? I don’t want to get to the end too fast. I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.

Joel Meyerowitz on what he’s learned: Part II. See his work on LightBox here. (via timelightbox)

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© Whitney Hubbs, Courtesy M+B Gallery, Los Angeles — Untitled (Hair), 2012

On view at M+B Gallery till March 9, 2013: Whitney Hubbs. The Song Itself is Already a Skip:

Dark, raw, powerful and swimming in sensuality, the work of Whitney Hubbs is at once blunt and lyrical, formal and improvised, recognizable to daily experience and yet totally foreign from it. Full of unlikely visual rhythms, Hubbs’ work creates and provokes with aesthetic force. Her images reside in a reticence of feeling. Through profound light and dark, a specific refusal of continuity or seriality, as well as latent eroticism, Hubbs demonstrates over and over her disinterest in generic narratives. Her work persuasively follows its own internal logic through her willingness to challenge the relationship between photographic immediacy and “authenticity.” This is the point of contact where reality and representation become muddled.

While we are accustomed to the photographic medium as the revelator, Hubbs confounds this idea. Abstracting through framing and with little desire to illuminate or provide an understanding, Hubbs prefers to leave the viewer feeling — sensing. A continual tension builds throughout the work. The darkness confronts you. The release overpowers. It is a sense of intuitive wonder you are left with. Defining, while withholding. Simply there. If you care to look into the corners, around the edges and crawl into the vastness, you find yourself pulling wonder out of the chaos and revealing something more.

For more information, visit the gallery’s website here. To see more of Whitney Hubbs’ work, visit her website here.

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HEY FRIENDS! This years faculty exhibition at Photographic Center Northwest is going to be off the hook this year! (ie. lots of wine, great art and the possibility of spontaneous dancing!) Who's going with me?