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Visual Storytelling Lab

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0 likes • 21d
Very original and immediately recognizable style.
Brothers
Not all my photos have an edge or tinge of weirdness or perversion to them some just capture the moment as it is/was in this case it's brothers twins identical twins not twins straight gay just two people that are related to one another and a multitude of levels
Brothers
0 likes • 22d
That's a nice concept. Good job bringing it into reality.
TRADING PLACES
ROBIN: She/Her I'm met Ken through craigslist. we had a totally anonymous sex relationship for six months. I never knew his name and never wanted to know his name he never talked to me except for "I'm ready for you Mr. Fischer". one day he stopped and looked at the artwork in my basement where the bedroom was and said "I love your house and I love your painting". that dramatically altered our relationship from anonymity to friendship unfortunately I was the OTHER woman in his marriage to his wife and he was determined to have me meet his wife to which I kept saying "absolutely not!" One day he came over for sex and looked at me point blank and said I've decided to become a woman to which I said OK how about if you let me photograph the process which took approximately two years the following images are only a small portion of the thousands of photos that I shot of her and the book which I eventually created on her transformation, she/her She wanted more say into what went into the book and I said this is my book and although I appreciate your input you have nothing to do with the final outcome of this project! We've talked on and off for years but we are no longer friends and now we don't see each other at all but I'm proud of the work that I did and the endless dealing with her vanity rejection difficulty emotional roller coaster and everything that was involved in creating these photos Please give me your opinion what do you think
TRADING PLACES
0 likes • 23d
Fascinating backstory and difficult-to-view images. It probably works for a very niche audience.
Minnie Mouse's lifeless Corpse identified by Police
Former Disney star, Minnie Mouse BTK Copycated!!! A female's Lifeless corpse, mercilessly and brutally nailed to a barbed- wire encased cinder block wall, was discovered at noon in a Berkeley Homeless camp😢😢😢🤮
Minnie Mouse's lifeless Corpse identified by Police
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What an eye!
Greatest Images in My Career
#1 is the most amazing shot I ever captured it was shot on a row of Ilford 3200 with a red filter push to the max it was number 37 on a roll of 36 it was a very last negative in what turned out to be an amazing mistake I never even saw the shot when I took it I just subconsciously clicked the shutter and there was a little girl with three shadows emanating from her which tell her entire life from young girl to hot chick to old crown her boobs keep going further up and then down and the bun on her hair keeps moving backwards I have no idea who the old crown is I was in Palm Desert at the time at an Italian restaurant when I saw a Latino mother and daughter both dress the same way with a Bando top belly exposed and white pants both mother and daughter were dressed exactly the same clearly the mother was teaching her daughter how to look good for her man since the woman and child were there with their husband/father. I asked him if I could take their picture and the woman was very kind and obliged and she went outside with her daughter and I did take one portrait of the two of them together which was number 36 on the roll and then somehow I took number 37 and it wasn't until I was looking at the sheet of negatives that I realize what I captured the beauty of photography is that your third eye sees things that your other two don't see consciously #2 which is the last shot in the set is called Little Russian drama. I was on a tour bus in St. Petersburg Russia going 30 miles an hour down a busy street to go to the Hermitage museum now the magic of photography and the Cartier Sun definitive moment is a number of factors that all work together to create the impossible i.e. one has one's camera the lens cover is off the cameras turned on you see something and within a millisecond click the shutter not knowing if you captured it or not obviously it's better to get the shot than not so if it's not in focus it's OK blur is a creative choice in this case the extraordinary thing of this photo is that the guy is obviously an asshole you can tell by his body language the woman is under a lot of stress and the punctum(main point of interest) is there a shoe perfectly in focus pointing up giving a clue to the amount of stress that this woman is under having to deal with this bully of a boyfriend or partner or whatever. Having all of those factors working perfectly in sync is what the definitive moment is really all about every time I look at this image it just blows me away!
Greatest Images in My Career
1 like • 28d
@Bob Fischer You have had an incredible career. Have you been published?
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Pro photographer/mentor focusing on photography with intent. I teach how to see, control, and communicate at the time of capture, so images are felt.

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