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day 632: t-squat

Nat Ma — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:08:08 +0000

My Blog featured in T-Squat magazine. Click here to view.

day 520: Danger Mouse & David Lynch

Nat Ma — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:04:25 +0000

Last night I attended the launch of Danger Mouse‘s (in collaboration of the recently departed Sparklehorse) new album Dark Night of the Soul. The album was launch via 50 photographs by David Lynch which intrepreted every track on the album. I’m not a massive fan of David Lynch, however, I was pretty impressed by his photographic eye and vision. Go see it at the Morrison Hotel Gallery.

Dark Night of the Soul included a roll call of guests with Lynch himself, the Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys, Jason Lytle, Julian Casablancas, Black Francis, Iggy Pop, James Mercer, Nina Persson, Suzanne Vega and the late Vic Chesnutt.

day 440: portrait of the self

Nat Ma — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:53:02 +0000

Last week I started my first portrait photography class at ICP. The first assignment was a self portrait. I had no studio or proper lighting equipment to work with and even if I did, I would have no clue as to how to use it. So I did what I knew best and took it to the streets (of Lower East Side).

day 437: my first show

Nat Ma — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:31:23 +0000

On Friday night I had 4 of my photographs exhibited at a show at the Greenpoint Gallery. It was also a contest, where best in show would win their own solo show. I didn’t win but I made it into the final 10 out of the 300+ photographs on display. Thanks to my friends to came and supported me!

day 436: my first show

Nat Ma — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:13:00 +0000

The work below have been accepted for a show tomorrow at The Greenpoint Gallery. Come down if you’re in the hood. I’ll be there around 8:30.

day 387: Photography Class Assignment

Nat Ma — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:20 +0000

I’m currently studying a class on Narrative Photography at ICP – essentially, Narrative Photography that tells a story and begs the viewer to contemplate on the meaning behind the shot. The aim is to provoke imagination where the storyline is open ended and interpretation belongs each viewer individually.

Each week we are given assignments to do for the next class the following week The first assignment I’ve been tasked with is to create a print that references a film. See if you can guess the films I’ve referenced.

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day 362: photography anyone?

Nat Ma — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:28:44 +0000

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day 360: silhouettes

Nat Ma — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:14:53 +0000

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day 296: ICP documentary photography final class exhibition

Nat Ma — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:16:22 +0000

For the past 10 weeks I had been attending a documentary photography class at the International Center of Photography. Tonight was our last class where we exhibited our final set of prints curated from the semester’s body of work.

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day 278: who shot rock and roll

Nat Ma — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:34:19 +0000

Today I went to the Who Shot Rock and Roll exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition is the best collection of music/artist photography I’ve seen. I’ve included some samples below where you will see a very young Rolling Stones in Australia before they were signed; Madonna just after she released her first single, the photographer shot her not because she was Madonna but because they attended the same gym and she had always liked the way Madonna dressed; and also Kurt Cobain who just walked backstage and broke down into tears right after smashing his guitar on their amp on stage.

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http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/