Coney Island Loves 2007-2009
Mollye Chudacoff is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz currently working as a photographer in New York City. "Coney Island Loves 2007-2009" is her outstanding two part multimedia documentary. It's featured on the "You're Beautiful New York" website. Check it out here: www.ybny.com/ybny/video/
Posted on March 5th, 2010
Education Rally
Students in Santa Cruz, California protest fee increases and budget cuts at colleges and universities and budget cuts at K-12 schools. The rally was part of a statewide action aimed at saving California's sinking education system. The turnout in Santa Cruz was large and enthusiastic! (Click on photos to see them larger)
Hear me!
Stand up for schools!
Posted on March 4th, 2010
A Moment
Remember the scene in the Movie “Smoke” when Auggie (Harvey Keitel) is showing Paul (William Hurt) his photographs of the street corner outside his cigar store? Paul looks through the photos very quickly and says that they all look the same. Auggie tells him he needs to look at the photos slowly. He points out the changes in light, season and the look on people’s faces, the special moments in each photograph.
Posted on January 18th, 2010
Hula Hoopsters
On Sundays the hula hoopsters gather at the lighthouse.
Posted on January 14th, 2010
Beach Art
The beach is his canvas.
Posted on January 10th, 2010
On the Rope
The Beach, The Street continued….here a climber works out on a rope at Seacliff State Beach. In “Bystander”, the great book on the history of street photography, the authors say that the street “is any public place where a photographer could take pictures of subjects who are unknown to him and whenever possible, unconscious of his presence.”
Posted on January 8th, 2010
The Beach, The Street
A famous street photographer said he’d never seen an interesting photograph taken at the beach. When one lives in coastal California the beach doubles as “the street”. What I mean is, it’s our public space, our Times Square, our Melrose Avenue. It can be an alfresco art gallery, a church, a venue for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Weddings and workouts take place at the beach. There’s nearly always someone or something to photograph at the beach. Here, a patient photographer can snap a moment in time unlike any other.
Posted on January 6th, 2010
Elora and Sami
I recently bought a sweet, used panorama camera. This photo is from my first field trip. Elora and Sami practice Muay Thai on Main Beach, Santa Cruz.
Posted on December 3rd, 2009