JP Wedding Photography

As a lot of you know, weddings isn’t the only thing that I shoot. Lately I’ve been doing shooting a lot of magazine work. Some of my favorite recent jobs have been for Dance magazine, the Italian Colors Magazine, and Edible Manhattan .

Also, for about 6 months I’ve been working on a more personal project. For those who know me, you know that I pretty much take a camera with me everywhere I go. Over the years I’ve ended up shooting a lot of “personal work”. I see it as perhaps being a book project somewhere down the line, but in the meantime, I’ve been eager to share with people what I’m working on.

So I’ve been throwing up some of my favorites, over at jacobpritchard.net/journals. Here’s a screenshot:

One unique thing about the project is that whenever I post a new images, whoever sends me an e-mail right away gets a free print of that image mailed to them. It’s a no-strings-attached deal. I really just like the idea that my pictures are going out in the world and people are able to enjoy them in a non-digital format. A few bloggers in the photo world have written about it, and it’s a lot of fun to be getting e-mails and sending my prints all over the world. So if you have a second, head over there and check it out, and maybe you’ll be getting the next free print!

We’re jumping into the winter. For me that means a few months off from shooting weddings, but I definitely haven’t put my camera down! I want to keep you guys posted on what I’m up to in the meantime.

This Friday I’m showing pictures for a benefit and party to support my dear friend Robin Cantrell and her dance company. They’re putting on a show here in Brooklyn at the beginning of the year, and she asked me to do a photoshoot with her as a fundraiser to pay the dancers and msucians.

I had recently come across an old Paris Review with a bunch of Robert Mapplethorpe diptychs of portraits of people and flowers. That got me thinking that it would be fun to collaborate with the dancers and ask them to interpret different inanimate objects. Initially, Robin and I were playing with the idea, and we thought it would be fun to find a whole bunch of branches that they could imitate. But while I was wandering around McCaren park, I found some other things that I thought would be a fun challenge for the dancers to interpret.

To make a long story short, the result was “Dancers + Garbage”. Here’s a copy of the flier and a few sample images. If anyone’s free on Friday, I’d love to see you there!