Tag Archives: Michael Ast

Equinox

Equinox Arrived. I’ve been loitering a lot in random woods, toeing at the underbrush, seldom stirred enough to make a photograph. The blacks have to make jazz with the whites. Things are still a bit gray inside.

Self Portrait / Composite Sketch (April, 2019)

CKY – Too Precious to Kill, Cover Photos

Extremely psyched to have my photos on the cover of CKY’s new EP Too Precious to Kill. Serious tracks on this wax! Pressed in an edition of 1,500 copies on 180 gram colored vinyl, on behalf of Record Store Day, Black Friday, November 2018. eOne Records.

Oranbeg Press “What Will Suffice” Publication and Exhibition (Sept. 2018)

Excited to be in the mix of Oranbeg Press’ latest publication and online exhibition Net 2.8: What Will Suffice, juried/curated by photographer, writer & publisher Tim Carpenter. A big fan of Oranbeg Press’ consistent creative mark in the independent photography & publishing world, it’s an honor to have images chosen based upon the exhibition’s great […]

New Photo Etchings, 2018

Finally getting around to photographing recent hand-pulled photo etchings. This past Winter and Spring in the printmaking studio was a productive, perfectly inky time, producing numerous etchings and subsequent small editions. I spent those months making and pressing plates from my 2017 & 2018 Havana photographs, but also from travels in Portugal, and domestically along […]

45th Birthday Commences

Ended the first day of my 45th year happily pulling this etching off the plate. Edition of 5, on BFK Rieves, 115 gsm

Back in the Studio – Havana Photographs

Finally getting into the studio, to the production and possibilities of intention with my Havana photographs. Imperfection is the perfection I’m after . . . .

Another Edit Commences . . . . Havana (January, 2018)

Another edit commences after my 2nd travel to Havana in 5 months. It’s been an enormous inspiration and education getting to intimately know Cuban people, building friendships, experiencing their music and seeping into their welcoming culture. The moments have been profound, invaluable examples of resourcefulness, courage, individualism, optimism – all attributes under the overarching principles […]

Interview/Feature: Dúplex Magazine (November, 2017 Issue)

Honored to be interviewed and featured in the November, 2017 issue of Dúplex magazine, a beautiful publication out of Valencia showcasing artists and designers in Spain and elsewhere. Much thanks to Dúplex editor Paco Ballster and Armand Llàcer for the interview, whose print house LaImprenta published my book “a musing from the rocking dock”.

Upended, Dec. 5, 2017

I have been incredibly distracted by late Autumn’s treble of light, lost deep in the woods of mind and briar. This gray day comes on and upends all discovery. I feel stunted and dumb, dragged out from the underbrush, bungled.