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Moth Dust - LOOK3 Festival of The Photograph 2016 Images

I was honored to attend LOOK3 - Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia this past week. LOOK3 hosted a curated selection of low-edition photography books, new photography cooperatives (namely, Black Box), an extraordinary number of artist talks and a panel with three of PDN's "30 under 30" photographers to give career advice to the emerging photographer.  As I was a volunteer, I was able to assist Olivia Bee during her workshop at the EDU sessions. "Creating a Photographic Dream World" was geared towards local high school students, hand picked by their teachers, and was a full day-long event playing with portraiture on instax film outside the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.  Additional highlights of the festival included meeting Doug Dubois, Jon Golden, Ike Edeani, and many other esteemed editors & colleagues. 

#look3festival If you like these images, check out my instagram - @mothdustphoto

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Photographing at the New Moynihan Station For Skanska - Photo Assisting in NYC

Oh, the places you'll go as a documentary photographer! I am a part time photo assistant for Michael Benabib, I donned a hard hat and ventured underground into the construction site inside the James A. Farley Post Office Building on 34th Street in New York City. You can check out the full blog post and images on the Executive Photos NYC corporate photography site, by clicking here.  I had a blast and hope to be invited back! Thanks, Skanska!  (if you are interested in hiring me as a photo assistant on a corporate, editorial, or fine art shoot, feel free to contact me for my day rate.) 

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Music Portraiture & Photography for Album Covers : Tate Gregor

I recently worked on this album cover for Tate Gregor for his new release, "Time Muse." You can check it out on SoundCloud here. 

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Published: New York Times Lens Blog - Facebook Feature

Was just at the New York Times Portfolio Review this weekend! There is much to process. I've been live posting the Review from my instagram.

So grateful for all the incredible editors & photographers I met this weekend. I received some truly illuminating career advice and work critique. A special thanks to Jim Estrin for the kind words.  #nyportfolio16  

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Published: New York Times Lens Blog - Facebook Feature

So grateful for all the incredible editors & photographers I met this weekend. I received some truly illuminating career advice and work critique. A special thanks to Jim Estrin for the kind words.  #nyportfolio16  

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Published: New York Times Lens Blog - Facebook Feature

Was just at the New York Times Portfolio Review this weekend! There is much to process. I've been live posting the Review from my instagram. So grateful for all the incredible editors & photographers I met this weekend. I received some truly illuminating career advice and work critique. A special thanks to Jim Estrin for the kind words.  #nyportfolio16  

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Dylan Mars Greenberg & Disck Pictures presents: Amityville: Vanishing Point - Stills Photography by Moth Dust

Dylan Mars Greenberg has produced several surrealist, John Waters-esque horror films on little to no budget, is a Troma Institute for Gifted Youth Inductee, and her last film, Dark Prism, starred Mac Demarco.  These images (and more) were published on Fangoria to promote the film. 

All in all, it was a fun set to be on. The entire cast is in their late teens and early twenties; often scenes are ad libbed on the spot.  Since stills are secondary to the actual filmmaking, a photographer on a movie set must remain as out of the way and quiet as possible. The majority of the film was photographed in St. George, Staten Island, in a communal artist residency space called The Fay. 

The below movie poster was composited with various stills I shot on set. 

You can rent or buy Amityville: Vanishing Point at Disck Pictures by clicking here. 

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Dylan Mars Greenberg & Disck Pictures presents: Amityville: Vanishing Point - Stills Photography by Moth Dust

Dylan Mars Greenberg has produced several surrealist, John Waters-esque horror films on little to no budget, is a Troma Institute for Gifted Youth Inductee, and her last film, Dark Prism, starred Mac Demarco.  These images (and more!) were published on Fangoria to promote the film.  All in all, it was a fun set to be on. The entire cast is in their late teens and early twenties; often scenes are ad libbed on the spot.  Since stills are secondary to the actual filmmaking, a photographer on a movie set must remain as out of the way and quiet as possible. The majority of the film was photographed in St. George, Staten Island, in a communal artist residency space called The Fay. 

The below movie poster was composited with various stills I shot on set. 

You can rent or buy Amityville: Vanishing Point at Disck Pictures by clicking here. 

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Tipping Point Exhibition @ The International Center of Photography - Full Time Students

Tipping Point features work by the graduating 2015 students of ICP's One-Year Certificate Programs: Documentary Photography & Photojournalism and General Studies in Photography. It is curated by Program Chairs Alison Morley and Marina Berio.

A Personal Note: I would so very much love to see you there. I will have some works based on my newest project, titled Women, which documents two transgender women in New York City. The work will be published on my website in the next week, so keep on checking back to see the full assignment!

Featured Artists

Documentary Photography & Photojournalism

Beatriz Arango García, Khadim Baluch, Mansi Bhajanka, Soumita Bhattacharya, Andrea Cattaneo, Priyanka Chharia, Meskerem Cohen, Yolande Daeninck, Moth Dust, Sara Frisby, Barbara Gracner, Sophia Guida, Tomas Hasselrot, Elena Hermosa, Elise Jacob, Hyungsup Kim, Mikael Krantz, Esteban Kuriel, Alexandra Madden, Loubna Mrie, Giovana S. Nunes, Fabiana Sala, Griselda San Martin, Gareth Smit, Natasha Srour, David Steinberg, Camila Svenson, Alexis Theodoracopulos, Shih-Chieh Wei, Miguel Winograd

General Studies in Photography Sofia Agote, Ela Apa, Petronella Åslund, Shaye Babb, Gavin Batchelor, Akshay Bhoan, Jasper Briggs, Joana P. Cardozo, Alia Chakukova, Hope Davis, Frances de Larminat, Mélanie Duault, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Maria Fé Romero, Francisco Fernández, Annie Frame, Brian Galderisi, Angie Victoria Garcia, Elizabeth Herring, Izabela Jurcewicz, Ram Kanjanavanit, María Koper, Nicole Kouri, Narisa Ladak, Rodrigo Lopez Gomez, Amy Xian Luo, Roberto Andrade Martini, Kirsten Murphy, Verónica Cerna Orbegoso, Claudia Palacios, Mattia Pardini, Sakshi Parikh, Agostina Pelella, Júlia Pontés, Anissa Lizette Rivera, Cristias Rosas Chocano, Nitzan Rubin, Wirasandi Ruslan, Fernando Sandoval Miquilena, Mariana S. de R. Pantalena, Richard Schatzberg, Erin T. Shipley, Zeynep Simsek, Amit Verma, Jiaxi Yang, Marc Qimeng Zhao

International Center of Photography School 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY Jun 19, 2015 – Aug 09, 2015  

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Our dear Julia had her birthday recently. (at Taaffe Pl. Lofts)

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at Taaffe Pl. Lofts

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Treetops (at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania)

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Grand Central // Underground (at Grand Central Terminal)

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Grand Central Terminal // Underground (at Grand Central Terminal)

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Grand Central Station // Underground Series - 1/3 (at Grand Central Terminal)

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on assignment for class today. (at Queens Museum)

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