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The work of Emily Shur, Greg Watermann, Piper Ferguson, Aaron Farley and Dan Monick will be projected against the night sky. A special treat this week brings live music performed by The Lost Libraries and Modern Memory. It's going to be a special nite for photography and music in Los Angeles...and it's absolutely FREE with rsvp to summerseries@luciefoundation.org.
This closing event of the Pro'jekt LA Summer Series presented by The Lucie Foundation promises to be absolutely enthralling.
Aaron Farley
Music and photography brought Aaron Farley to Los Angeles 10 years ago, where he now lives, camera always close at hand, with his wife Michelle and daughter Lyla. It all started when he was 20. He dropped out of college and a week later broke his leg skateboarding. His mom had bought him an old Konica 35mm for his birthday so she signed him up for a photo class at Spokane Falls Community College to get him out of the house. He was hooked the second he saw a photo appear in the developer. Next semester he re-enrolled at WSU to finish with a BFA in Fine Arts. Also in a band, he started shooting some of his friends bands at school and music and photography were tied together forever. Since picking up the camera, his photography has allowed him to travel the world, most recently being flown to Kuwait to photograph a Myspace show for American soldiers, and touring, shooting and having a blast in Australia with his band Sabertooth Tiger for three weeks. His work has been printed in numerous publications and for companies such as Swindle, Paper Mag., Alarm Mag, Filter, Nylon, Interview, Interscope and Columbia Records, Now We Are Free, Flaunt, Guitar Center, and Myspace Music among others. When he’s not shooting, playing music, or watching a little 1 yr old learn to talk, Aaron also co-hosts a radio show called GTFU Radio.
To see more of Aaron's work, please visit www.aaronfarley.com
Piper Ferguson
In all of Piper Ferguson’s work there’s an electric relationship between high style and pure spontaneity. Whether she’s shooting a musician or politician, she looks through a rock ‘n’ roll lens, producing images that are compelling, bold, occasionally surreal and always alive. Her secret, says Piper, is simple: at heart she’s still as much a fan as she is a photographer or a director. And her appreciation for her subjects has led to some pretty unforgettable moments – hanging out with Joe Strummer at the Chateau Marmont, filming a video for her friend Ed Harcourt in the Nevada desert, or photographing Steve Jones and Billy Idol together for the cover of Swindle magazine, a gig she calls “the most full circle life experience I’ve ever had.”
Born in Petaluma, schooled in San Francisco and living in Los Angeles for the last decade, Piper is a California girl whose visual sensibility was forged by cutting edge ‘80s fashion and the hyper-reality of MTV. Although her photographic heroes – Ellen von Untwerth, Terry Richardson, William Eggleston, David Bailey – have very different styles, she and they all share a meticulous attention to color and an innate sexiness.
To see more of her work, please visit http://www.piperferguson.com
Dan Monick
Dan Monick grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been featured in numerous publications including Interview, Paper, Swindle, Dwell, XXL, Out, Rolling Stone, The Journal, Arkitip, and Fortune. He is a co-founder of the independent music publication the LA RECORD. His first book of photography will be published in the coming year by Gingko Press. He has shown at the Nicole Dintaman Gallery, Studio 7, 4016 Gallery, Lather, Han Cholo, Hollywood and Highland, Gallery 1269, Fluxco Gallery, The Jeff Electric Gallery, Little Bird, Meter Gallery, Subliminal Projects, and Soo Visual Arts Center.
To see more of his work, please visit www.dmonick.com
Emily Shur
Emily was born in New York City, at New York Hospital, to an auditorium full of nursing students. She attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University with a major in Photography and graduated in 1998 with academic honors along with the Artist Award for Creative Excellence.
Emily’s editorial clientele includes The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Interview, Wired, and Elle Magazine among others. Her advertising work includes campaigns for America Online, Yahoo!, MTV Networks, and 24 Hour Fitness. Emily has lectured about her work several times at New York University, School of Visual Arts in New York City, The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Loyola Marymount University. Her work has been featured in Communication Arts (2005) and included in American Photography 22, 24, and 25 (2006, 2008, and 2009). In 2005, Emily was selected as a winner in The Art Director’s Club Young Guns global competition. In 2008, she received an honorable mention in the Photography.Book.Now competition and also was honored to have an image in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2009, Emily was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in Review Santa Fe.
Today, Emily lives a warm and sunny life in Los Angeles after 11 years in New York City. She lives with her husband and their dog, The Baroness, in a 105 year-old house in Echo Park.
To see more of Emily's work, please visit www.emilyshur.com
Greg Watermann
Rock star photographer Greg Watermann specializes in documenting musicians lives. Over the years, his unlimited access at concerts has routinely placed him on-stage with of some of the biggest names in Rock n' Roll (or in their dressing room, tour bus, or recording studio). This perspective combined with Watermann’s “in the trenches” style gives photography and music fans alike a perspective of really being there, and has earned him the rights to tour with such bands as System Of A Down, Linkin Park, Coldplay, and My Chemical Romance.
To see more of Greg's work, please visit www.gregwatermann.com
The details:
When - Thursday, September 24th from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Where - Space15Twenty at 1520 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Who/What - The photographic works of Emily Shur, Greg Watermann, Piper Ferguson, Aaron Farley and Dan Monick with live music performed by The Lost Libraries and Modern Memory. Projections begin when the sun goes down...
RSVP by Wednesday, September 23rd by 4 p.m. to summerseries@luciefoundation.org
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