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Stoked to announce a split show with punk/folk artist/musician legend, Tim Kerr. April 3rd at Tin Whistle Gallery, ATX. 7-10pm
I'll be showing work from my BMX archives.( future book!?) Tim's Up Around The Sun will play a set at 8pm among his painted skate decks. Be there!
This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment
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The 2019 Formula 1 Grand Prix in Austin, Texas
Corndogs, cowboy hats and cheerleaders are not what I remember about Formula 1 through as a wee boy’s distant memories of Scotland in the 70s and 80s. Back then It was just a fizzy drink, crisps from the ice cream van and sat glued to a black n white TV Screen watching Ayrton Senna and Jackie Stewart rule the tracks in less safe cars back then.
Fast forward a lifetime later and I’m asked to shoot the F1 Grand Prix in 2019 at the Circuit of Americas racetrack in Austin Texas, the only purpose-built track in the States to host F1 and motorsports.
The dream assignment;- be a fly on the wall and do a tour thing following the Haas F1 Team superstars as they prepped in the pits, raced, and mingled with fans in the grandstands. I’ve always meant to check out F1 in my adopted town of Austin but this was my opportunity, or way in to be nosey. I knew it’d be fun to document the F1 madness, especially on Halloween, the city’s biggest holiday where they like to ‘Keep Austin Weird’. I’ve been to COTA to shoot the X games and numerous big concerts and knew fully well this one would bring out all the weirdos and die hard sports fans flying their countries colours as well as their freak flags under one big loud white noise revving weekend.
The whole weekend at F1 was actually a pretty fascinating whirlwind and bizarrely stimulating to photograph, as a cast of extraordinary characters and an international mix of everyday fans and royalty melted together to take in F1 right before a Covid-19 lockdown shut it down for 2020.
click to view the full set of images in the archive at INSTITUTE Artist.
Excited to take our bike packing short film, California Golde to the Admit One Analogue Film Showcase in Houston on July 21st hosted by FLATS & Houston Cinema Arts Society!
Tickets here -https://lnkd.in/gnzGF5rc use 'celluliod' for 50% off on checkout.
See you soon, Houston!
Happy New Year, y’all!
Kicking off 2023 here with a magazine release party and rock show on January 21st at FLATS Houston, TX.
Thrilled to be featured in FLAT FILES Issue 3 release with work from my Passing Place book alongside Kristina Knipe and Bucky Miller. My wife Karen and I’s band SKLOSS are also playing the party with Houston’s Little Outfit. Should be a right good time.
See you there!
Still Corners backstage at The Parish. Austin, Texas 5/27/22
Scottish author Daniel Kalder. Austin, Texas May 2021.
The director and the editor have collaborated on 20 features, including “Apollo 10½,” now on Netflix.
New work for the New York Times with Austin’s dynamic duo of film;)
Our animated short film about bmx legend Paul Buchanan and the church gap is now showing at the 2022 Bicycle Film Festival through April 24th.
We are super proud this was an official selection this year and stoked to be included. We hope you get a good laugh out of it as much as we did making it. 🎟🍿 Festival passes are here to see Paul shred and and all the other radical cycling films in this year’s program. Animated brilliantly by Taj mihelich and narrated by yers truly. Intro by James Shepherd, sound design by David Jack, sound bites/archives by Stew Johnson & Chris Rye. 🎸 By The Taj and Monty band.
Cheers
My wife Karen and I’s new music project SKLOSS have a 7 inch on purple vinyl out today for pre-order and streaming wherever you stream. Hope y’all dig it!
Cheers!
Living in East Austin, Texas remains an experiment. As the city grows, the mysterious peripheries of the landscape collide with expansion. The roar of the expressway cuts nomads and wildlife off from the city, and it’s at this juncture where SKLOSS formed their expansive, cathartic sound.
“Living next to the woods had something to do with it,” says SKLOSS guitarist Carson. SKLOSS, consisting of Carson and drummer Karen Skloss, is a two-piece guitar and drums outfit that began as a side project out of the duo’s marriage. At first, it was an escape from their everyday lives as creative professionals. But the COVID-19 pandemic changed their focus.
“We started to use music as an outlet. Like most everyone during that time, we were so cooped up,” says Skloss. Jams became songs, while the noise level and experimentation went up. The sound of SKLOSS became a response to the crazy world just outside their window. And the living room became their practice space.
Then came a call from Volcom, asking SKLOSS to score a film to coincide with the release of a Featured Artist Series collaboration with multi-platform artist Thomas Hooper. “This project kicked our arse to get out of the living room and into the studio,” says Carson.
Recorded and mixed by Jason Morales (Tia Carrera) and mastered by Grammy Award winning producer Erik Wofford (Explosions in The Sky, My Morning Jacket) at Cacophony Recorders in East Austin, SKLOSS’ experimental takes are meditative and psyche-influenced, while retaining an atmospheric, unknowing quality that mirrors the eeriness of East Austin.
Recorded live and mixed by Jason Morales (Tia Carerra) at the BBQ Shack. Mastered by Erik Wofford (Explosions In The Sky, The Black Angels) at Cacophony Recorders, December/January 2022 Cover art by Thomas Hooper & Jacob Bannon. Band photo by Clif Wright Cardinal Press 2022
Riding around on his trusty bike, Scottish photographer Sandy Carson documents his adopted home at a unique point in its history.
A new feature in London’s HUCK Magazine this week for Pretty Much.
Photographer Sandy Carson's new photo book 'Pretty Much' pretty much sums up his 2020.
Michael Lee interviewed me about my new book over at Austin’s NPR radio station KUT arts eclectic.
Sandy Carson’s latest book, Pretty Much , is a humorous look at where he found himself in 2020 in his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas. Carson’s photographic viewpoint is a sympathetic and curious exploration of his surroundings. His images address such weighty topics and social issues like raci
Happy New Year y’all! Hope you are keeping well and safe out there.
Cary Benbow wrote a lovely review of Pretty Much to start the new year over at Yield magazine-the art mag at the University of Notre Dame.
Enjoy,
sandy
Announcing my new monograph -’PRETTY MUCH’ for pre-order and shipping mid September from Aint Bad-
Order here.
In his latest body of work, Sandy Carson turns his wry wit to cataloging the year 2020, an uncertain and unprecedented time where the world began navigating the ‘new normal.’
Brilliantly observed and utterly relatable, these photographs (amassed mostly during lockdown in Austin, Texas and entirely during the calendar year) observe and document family relationships, grief, protests, social issues, and everyday street life as Carson left home to exercise and escape for his own sanity by foot or on his bike. Curious pairings evoke the interconnectedness many of us felt.
On the street or just around the corner, a timeless, heartfelt, and absurdist lens joins with Sandy’s hopeful approach to storytelling, inviting the observer to take a deep breath, buckle up and hold on just a bit longer. It’s a gentle reminder that someday, these days will be worth remembering. Pretty much.
Title : Pretty Much
Text By: Chloe Juno
Details : Edition Size 300 9″ x 7″, 96 pages Hard Cover, Perfect Bound ISBN : 978-1-944005-49-8 Published by : Aint–Bad Fall 2021
Really happy to have my first photo in the April issue of Harper's Magazine for their National Parks article 🏞 Thank you Alyssa Coppelman. The Glacier National Park photo was taken from my book- ‘I’ve Always Been A Cowboy In My Heart’ Free shipping on Cowboy Heart and my new book ‘Passing Place’ right now through the weekend from Yoffy Press using SANDYSHIPS code on checkout. Cheers! Photo on left by Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber. Intro pic by Jesse Rieser. Harpers article here- https://lnkd.in/dP4CW9a
Deep Red Press listed my new photo memoir ‘Passing Place’ in their top 20 books for 2020 along with Marcy Palmer’s new book also on Yoffy Press. Thanks, DRP!
Also an air hug to BOOOOOOOM for the shout out in the 75 for 75 in 2020!
Hope y’all are having a happy new year and all the best for ‘21.
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My new book ‘Passing Place’ is out today on Yoffy Press!
Thanks a million for your patience and pre-orders. Shipping now!
Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of Scotland after emigrating to America at a young age. This photographic memoir deals with separation, space, and the invisible family bonds that exist despite physical distance incurred by geographical displacement.
The name is inspired by one-lane rural roads with wide spots that are common in Scotland, allowing vehicles to pass each other and continue on their journey.
These photographs and memories made on annual visits home since 2001, are a testimony to Carson’s upbringing and a gentle reminder that absence creates longing and nostalgia across the miles. Carson was drawn to make a record of everyday domestic rituals and routines during the rare times he and his mother spent together, to distill time with her portending passing in 2016.
By uniting his photographs with the ephemera and family photos left behind by his mum, Carson is striving to fill the void by retracing their lives, embracing the formative years they spent together, and absorbing the ones they lost.
Released November 2020
Photographs by Sandy Carson Introduction by Allan McNaughton Essays by Daniel Kalder and Stephen McLaren
Hardcover, 9 x 6.5 inches 108 pages Edition of 350
ISBN: 978-1-949608-23-6 Trade Edition: $40.00