The World Looks Better through a 35mm Lens
photography by Justin McCallum
photography by Justin McCallum
Back with Nadra Photography!
Hello folks!
Just wanted to update y'all with the news that I am photographing with the incredible Nadra Photography for the end of the wedding season as her assistant photographer, and therefore will be uploading a LOT of new work into my "Relationships and Unions" section. I had the privilege of interning in the studio last summer, and am so thrilled to be working back with the most creative people I know once again. To check out some of Nadra's most incredible work head over to www.nadraphotography.net or blog.nadraphotography.com! To see the whole wedding head over to flickr.com/photos/justingmccallum
Peace and love,
Justin
Just wanted to update y'all with the news that I am photographing with the incredible Nadra Photography for the end of the wedding season as her assistant photographer, and therefore will be uploading a LOT of new work into my "Relationships and Unions" section. I had the privilege of interning in the studio last summer, and am so thrilled to be working back with the most creative people I know once again. To check out some of Nadra's most incredible work head over to www.nadraphotography.net or blog.nadraphotography.com! To see the whole wedding head over to flickr.com/photos/justingmccallum
Peace and love,
Justin
Buenos Aires: A land of beauty and contradiction
With European influence and South American spice; undertones of affluence and blaring poverty; and an active civil society yet unresponsive government; Buenos Aires presents the photography with many juxtaposing images and inspiring story lines. Here I explore these differences of vibrant decadence and desperate slums, in a portrait of a city stuck somewhere between the past and the present.
Site Refurbished!
Recently I have been incredibly busy! I just now had the chance to update the site since early Fall 2010, and have had the amazing new opportunities to photograph. Boston Fashion Week as well as Andre Agassi's Grand Slam for Kids in Las Vegas expanded my portfolio, and joining the publications The Tufts Daily and Her Campus Tufts as a staff photographer in addition to interning with Nadra Photography and Jen Dean Photography have helped hone my skill/
Poke around this online portfolio to see my work.
Feel free to contact me at:
[email protected]
[email protected]
And also check out my FlickR for an even more extensive look at my photography!
www.flickr.com/photos/justingmccallum/
Cheers,
Justin
2/25/11
Poke around this online portfolio to see my work.
Feel free to contact me at:
[email protected]
[email protected]
And also check out my FlickR for an even more extensive look at my photography!
www.flickr.com/photos/justingmccallum/
Cheers,
Justin
2/25/11
So, I'm an aspiring photographer. Just trying to get my work out there as i develop my distinct style. Hopefully you all enjoy my work as much as I enjoy producing it!
Thanks,
Justin McCallum
Thanks,
Justin McCallum
UPDATES GALORE
Hello photo-patrons! I have had the great privilege to grow a lot this past year under the guidance of Nadra Edgerley and Jen Dean Hartman while interning at Nadra Photography as well as being taught by the exuberant and always creative Dory Gardner at Tufts University. I feel my work can show that a lot, so I am putting up a bunch of new stuff and older shots I've come to appreciate a lot more. : )
New Tabs Include:
- Experiments in [still] Life.
- Flora.
- Gallop.
- Man's Best Friend.
- Self Portraits.
Also check out the new shots added to:
- Miscellaneous Humanoids.
- Performance.
- The World as I Know It.
Thanks for checking me out and please give any feedback in the guestbook!
Cheers,
Justin
New Tabs Include:
- Experiments in [still] Life.
- Flora.
- Gallop.
- Man's Best Friend.
- Self Portraits.
Also check out the new shots added to:
- Miscellaneous Humanoids.
- Performance.
- The World as I Know It.
Thanks for checking me out and please give any feedback in the guestbook!
Cheers,
Justin
Mission Statement: Humanity
[photo credit to Ariel Hamlin]
So. Why press the shutter? Why step behind a lens? Why squint your eye inanely to slam your face behind a viewfinder? Nobody ever asked me that. But I know how I'd answer.
Humanity.
I take pictures to show people. They are the best reason to take a picture - capture an instant forever. They are expressive. They are beautiful. They are interesting.
Whether its a candid smile, fashion ad, photojournalism, recorded memory, beauty campaign, or frozen moment of emotion, a photograph of a person always tells you something. Whether its their, mood, relationship with another, circumstance at that moment, or that they heard something hilarious enough to shoot milk out of their nose, it tells you something.
So I try to tell you something with every shot. Each frame is a line in a story. Its up to you to decipher the language, figure out the context, and decide what it means.
Humanity.
Thats what motivates me to take a photo.
To squeeze my eye against a viewfinder, adjust my lens, fiddle with a light meter, and hold - my index finger on the shutter, waiting for that "decisive moment" as Cartier-Bresson would say.
Humanity.
I take pictures to show people. They are the best reason to take a picture - capture an instant forever. They are expressive. They are beautiful. They are interesting.
Whether its a candid smile, fashion ad, photojournalism, recorded memory, beauty campaign, or frozen moment of emotion, a photograph of a person always tells you something. Whether its their, mood, relationship with another, circumstance at that moment, or that they heard something hilarious enough to shoot milk out of their nose, it tells you something.
So I try to tell you something with every shot. Each frame is a line in a story. Its up to you to decipher the language, figure out the context, and decide what it means.
Humanity.
Thats what motivates me to take a photo.
To squeeze my eye against a viewfinder, adjust my lens, fiddle with a light meter, and hold - my index finger on the shutter, waiting for that "decisive moment" as Cartier-Bresson would say.
a quote to make you think.
One of my favorite movies is "The Brothers Bloom".
Its creative, funny, beautifully shot, well acted, and Bang-Bang is the coolest character to grace the silver screen in probably a decade.
But anyway, the point.:
My favorite quote about photography is in it. And I love it because I disagree. But before I tell you why, I should tell you it:
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Basically, I can't come around to the idea that a photograph is 'secretive' or untrue in any way. Even in the most artificial of circumstances, after pounds of make-up are applied to a person, if you have to change the lighting, burn-in and dodge-out for what seems like an eternity in the darkroom, happened to press the frame by accident in the most fleeting moment, or almost entirely created the image with photoshop - then it was still done for a decisive message. There is truth intently in it, if nothing else.
So, whether its false or true, candid or posed, artificial or organic, a photograph has truth if nothing else.
Its creative, funny, beautifully shot, well acted, and Bang-Bang is the coolest character to grace the silver screen in probably a decade.
But anyway, the point.:
My favorite quote about photography is in it. And I love it because I disagree. But before I tell you why, I should tell you it:
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Basically, I can't come around to the idea that a photograph is 'secretive' or untrue in any way. Even in the most artificial of circumstances, after pounds of make-up are applied to a person, if you have to change the lighting, burn-in and dodge-out for what seems like an eternity in the darkroom, happened to press the frame by accident in the most fleeting moment, or almost entirely created the image with photoshop - then it was still done for a decisive message. There is truth intently in it, if nothing else.
So, whether its false or true, candid or posed, artificial or organic, a photograph has truth if nothing else.
