Totally! Go Team Camouflage!!!!

Dude, show your team colors ;-)

Cammo

Good point Heather. Is everyone going to bring a cammo shirt or something? I would hate to be the only person without team colors.

Hello Team.
I'll be flying into town Thursday afternoon and will be at B&H friday am. Guess I should wear something camo ;-/ My cell is 917.414.5678 I look forward to it.

Nice to see your pictures and thoughts here at the blog.
I am leaving Denmark in 3 days and I am arriwing in NY at Wedensday the 8th.
Does anyone know where to find "Open Wound" in New York? I can't buy the books in Denmark.
I will go and see the II AMERIKA exhibition at ICP. If anyone else is going let me know.
Looking forward to meeting you all.

-Sanne

B&H Video in Manhattan

Hi Team. Is anyone riding the bus from B&H Video up to the farm? I am going to be at B&H early for the presentation. I have also been doing some "gun" research on Jeffersonville, NY. I thought it would be useful to know as much as we can, and look at the census for the town. Is the town blue or Red? What is the age of the people living there? I sit a hunting community? Is it a gun town? How many murders, crimes are committed with a gun? Howe many gun clubs, stores are in town. Are there gangs? I know these are all cliché, but hey, why not get them out of the way now.

One interesting piece of info I found: when I did a google search for gun clubs in the area, 923 listings appeared.

Hello Team Camo! I was struck by what each of us has chosen to show as an introduction to our images and ourselves in the context of our team subject matter. Not in the actual images, but how we perceive the subject. I am very much looking forward to meeting all of you and to many lively discussions on the various aspects of this topic, as well as photography and life in general...from our personal (vs pj) perspective, our social responsibility and the extent of our obligation to our subject afterwards...to name just a few.

II AMERIKA

Hi! I look forward to meeting you all in two weeks. If you're in the city prior to EAW, please take a moment to swing by ICP. I co-curated and have work in the II AMERIKA exhibition...



II AMERIKA
September 6 – October 12, 2008

Education Gallery: 1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
Hours: Monday – Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm

Originally premiered as part of Bushwick Open Studios in June 2008 and entitled simply AMERIKA, this exhibition—II AMERIKA—further expands upon the themes and issues addressed in the original, showcasing a broader spectrum of work and delving deeper into the nation's psyche. Though it would be a mistake to suggest this is a comprehensive review, there is here the making of a statement about where the country is today.

Curated by Nicolas Silberfaden, Deidre Schoo and Tom White and coordinated by Lucy Helton, II AMERIKA brings together the work of 24 photographers and represents a broad social commentary on the United States at this pivotal moment in the country's history.

Hi all. I am really excited about the EAW, and meeting/working with all of you. I have occasionally given gun culture thought, but not enough to pursue it as a story topic. With that said I am really excited about "gun culture." Working on a current story about scrappers here in the bay area, I came across this gun while exploring the homeless camp where some scrappers live. Luckily I photographed it. Not too much later after returning to this portion of the camp it was gone. 

I never picked it up, figured out whether it was real, or who it belonged to. Looking at this photo it makes me think about how guns, real or fake, can be used as a status symbol, to boost one's ego, or to intimidate.

Hi everybody:
Mark's post immediately made me think back to this ill-executed outtake from an airshow in Missouri summer before last. I thought a lot about gun culture while living in the middle of the middle of America, and there is something about kids and guns and the values they learn from a young age that gives me an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. I am super excited about our topic and looking forward to meeting all of you and photographizing together...

3 photographs from the archive

Hi, everybody,
It occured to me that I have a couple of pictures related to the theme. Here they are. Sasha.

Hi all! Thanks for setting this up for us Leah, and thanks for the inspiring words to get us started thinking Mr. Greene. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone next week. I wanted to share a picture I took last month that loosely relates to our theme. I was feature hunting at the local county fair and found myself in the poultry barn following a beam of light, basically just waiting for something interesting to fall into the frame. That's when 12-year-old Isaac turned the corner with the toy gun he'd bought earlier that morning at the fair:

Stanley's Reading Challenge

Del Corso's Gallery by Philip Caputo
The Bang Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
Open Wound by Stanley Greene

"Gun culture is all around us."

Katrina. Photograph by Stanely Greene