The Fantastic Reynard Li

My good friend and fantastic photographer Reynard Li has self-published a magazine entitlted Young Once, a collection of photographs from his daily life taken from 2004 to 2009 in New York City. I make an appearance on page 50 and 54!

Here's a photo of Rey I took a couple years ago, and the cover of the magazine.

Rachel Whiteread

Well this might be hard for some but the beauty in her work is very subtle. I was turned on to her by one of my teachers in school, William MacDonnel. She is part of the YBA's (Young British Artists) and they have been some of the biggest contributers to art in the last little while. She does reverse castings of spaces, the subtlties that come out are are very beautiful. In the video she talks about Ghost which is definitely one of the most interesting pieces of the century. I tried to find a web site but there doesn't seem to be one. I have a couple of her books yous should really look into it. I wish I was this good.

Bok Bok

Really is there a better name out there. He has a new label with L-Vis 1990. There both good but Bok Bok's stuff is killer. Here a remix Teddy turned me on too. Really good. Jinder - Youth Blood (Bok Bok Remix)

Also a cool shirt!

Fernie!!!

Just went up to Fernie this weekend to DJ. It was really fun, and everytime is for Kyle. Fernie is cool but maybe the roads are a bit sketchy. Bulldogs is awesome.

Nadav Kander - Yangtze, The Long River

I came across these photos by Nadav Kander a couple moths ago, and thought they were an amazing documentation of the crazy development and landscape alteration that's happening all over the world, especially in China.

Yangtze, The Long River  uses the river as a metaphor for constant change, Nadav photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source. China’s landscape is changing daily economically and physically, and that is why according to Nadav these are photographs that can never be taken again.

The Yangtze River flows 6380km across China, and it's banks and waterways provide homes and livelihood for hundreds of millions of Chinese. It's estimated that more people live along its banks than the entire population of the US, one in every eighteen people on the planet. That's a lot of people.

As usual, Nadav's photos are gorgeous, and the project has won numerous photo awards.

All Photos ©Nadav Kander, 2006-07

Sarah Moon, Photographer

I've been a fan of Sarah Moon's work for years. Born in 1940 in England, the formal model has been working as a photographer since 1967. Sarah lives in Paris.

As a poor student I returned her book "Coincidences" that I bought in 2001, which has since gone out of print. Biggest mistake. While in Berlin this summer I decided not to pick up her new book, "12345", a comprehensive 5 volume look at her extraordinary work, because of it's size & price. Thinking I could order it when I got home, it has also since gone out of print. What a disaster and horrible luck. I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of these, I'm hoping there are some still floating around.

You can read a recent interview with Sarah by Ilona Suschitzky in conjunction with the release of Sara's "12345" book here. There's also a You Tube video of someone flipping through the book (cheesy music included!)

Sarah Moon is represented by Michael Hoppen Gallery, and Renate Gallois Montbrun.

All photographs © Sarah Moon

Dec 20th 2009 Update: Ryan gave me Coincidences for my birthday. Super sweet! More scans to follow.