Family portraits – Rexburg Idaho
Here’s their slideshow.
Family portraits – Provo Utah
Thanks, Kim for bringing your boys down to the studio.
Portrait Of An Art Curator – Jason Metcalf
About Jason Metcalf, here’s what Ryan Neely said in Square Magazine:
Jason Metcalf has turned Provo inside out, by curating monthly exhibits that stun, impress, and stupefy. Whether it’s giant amorphous structures, bulletproof beer cozies, or thousands of books forming a giant wall, the exhibits at the Sego are always intriguing and backed up with scholarship from some of the best art minds in Utah.
Jason is the director of the Sego Art Center in downtown Provo, where these portraits were taken.
30 Strangers – 2009 – Coming Soon
Last year, the 30 Strangers project was a big success. Right now, we’re working out the details for our 30 Strangers project–2009. Details will follow soon that will include when we’ll be doing the project, as well as who we’ll be looking to photograph and how we’ll present the finished work. There will be some changes from how we did things last year.
As we talk further regarding our plans for the project, I just get so excited. That’s why I couldn’t resist writing a post about it. Stay tuned and I’ll let you know all about it.
30 Strangers - 2008
Family Portraits – Three Generations
Portrait of the wedding photographer, Justin Lyon
What luck. Justin Lyon is in town to for the Sundance Film Festilval and had a couple photo shoots just down the block from my office. So he stopped by to say hello. Justin seems like the happiest person I know. I can’t imagine that he’s ever frowned or been sad.
Justin and his lovely wife Amelia are wedding photographers in Southern California and making a big splash in their neck of the woods. Everyone loves Amelia and Justin. Cheers, Justin. Thanks for coming by. You’re welcome here any time.
Justin Lyon photographed in Provo Utah by Justin Hackworth
How To Treat A Photographer
My mother-in-law gave me a Stephen Shore book for my birthday and it just arrived today. It’s gorgeous. I’m so excited and this is a great way to treat a photographer.
From Amazon.com:
A teenaged photographic aspirant who hung around at Andy Warhol’s factory in its mid-60s heyday, Shore found success early: his first show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art was held when he was only 23. These 152 full-page, full-color shots comprise his serial project of the 70s, “Uncommon Places,” which documented roadside America with a dispassionate, Andy-like emptiness. It’s an aesthetic that has been endlessly co-opted by American filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and Jim Jarmusch, but some of these 12 7/8″ × 10 5/16″ shots of prairies, parking lots, polyester-clad couples and plastic hotel furnishings manage to seem fresh nonetheless. Shore’s concluding interview with Lynn Tillman makes the Warhol connection explicit, and argues for a kind of meaning-making from the void: “Formalism often sounds like a kind of visual nicety, but if I use it, that’s not how I mean it.” Beautiful, lush reproductions with minimal captions allow the photos to speak for themselves.
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Sort of reminds me of what Amanda James does.
Provo Gallery Stroll – January 2009
Seraph Bags
Seraph Stationery’s latest product: Cool bags. For a short time, they are $40 on their site. Soon they’ll be $60, so snatch some up now while the price is low. I love the description that’s on their website for these:
It’s a bag. It’s awesome. It’s made of comfortable materials. You can put whatever you want in it as long as it’s smaller than the bag.
Here’s where you can get one for you, one for your roommate, and one for your lover:
http://seraph.bigcartel.com/product/seraph-tote-bag
Seraph Stationery printed my business cards. People love them. No surprise–they were printed by Seraph. Everything they do is fabulous. Here’s their main site:
These photographs were made in that great window light in my office. I do love that window and I love that light. Thanks, Emily, for coming on such short notice to be photographed.
Six ways to be a better photographer
I wrote a short article called “Six Ways To Be A Better Photographer – Right Now” and it’s now posted on one of my favorite blogs: Stephmodo.com. Here’s the link:
http://www.stephmodo.com/2009/01/six-ways-to-be-better-photographer.html
Provo Engagement Pictures
If you ask me, their story is hot. They met on a house boat at Lake Powell. So there you go. Summertime. Swim suits. 100 degrees. Leisure time. No wonder they’re in love. That’s very cool. I mean, hot.
Big thanks to the Penny Royal Cafe in Provo for letting us take pictures in their space.
Salt Lake City Wedding – Barry and Michelle
It was a beautiful and small wedding. Sixteen people total. That includes the bride and groom, the guests, and the little boy carrying the ring. Eighteen people in all if you count the bishop and the photographer. By the way, the last picture shown in this post may be my favorite group shot I’ve ever taken at a wedding.
The event took place in Salt Lake City at Heritage Gardens.
Here’s a slideshow of more of their wedding pictures.
Here’s where you can view the whole event and buy prints.
Salt Lake City Wedding – Rachel and Micah
Here were my two favorite things about Rachel and Micah’s wedding day in Salt Lake City. I loved the speeches from her parents, and I loved hearing Micah play the violin, accompanied by Rachel. My other two favorite things were hearing Hannah sing and watching their slideshow. Rachel and Micah are so classy and refined and I’m really happy to have been there.
Wedding: Salt Lake Temple
Dinner: The Lion House
Here is a slideshow of more wedding pictures
Here’s where you can buy prints and view the whole wedding.
My good fortune
I enjoy my job. And one thing that makes it even easier is that I’m married to someone that’s so supportive about what I do. That’s helpful. But here’s the thing I really wanted to mention. On days when I have a shoot, just before I leave the house, she calls out, “Take great pictures.” Not just some times. She says that every time. So if I’ve ever done some work for you and you’ve been happy with the results, you can thank my wife.
Come visit us!
Here’s where Justin Hackworth Photography will be tomorrow, Saturday, January 3rd:
If we’ve never met, now’s the perfect time to come say hello. Plus, we’re giving stuff away. Maybe you’ll be the winner.
First Portrait Session of 2009 – Provo Utah
The Robisons used to live right behind us. They don’t now, and we miss them dearly. And not just because Julie used to pass delicous food to us over the fence. (The dolmathes were my favorite and she made them from the grape leaves that grew on the fence between our yards). We miss them because they were fabulous neighbors.
So I was happy when they called and wanted some family pictures. Taken January 1, this is my first portrait session of 2009.
Here’s where you can see all of their family pictures