Evelyn Swift Shuker, local (Boston/Philly — hire them!) performance artist, director, and playwright, was the lead actress in a short film I made last semester. My co-director and I were lucky to do well enough on the project’s Kickstarter that we could pay them actual money, but I also did their headshots. We headed over to Powderhouse Park in Somerville and wandered around finding fun places to shoot!
My mom, Kimberley Harding, makes gorgeous woven baskets, mostly out of paper. I photographed some for her website. Check out her Pinterest for more of her baskets, plus some handmade clothing, fiber art, and more!
I’ll admit it, this is my favorite one of these posts so far. I love the bikeway and I think it’s an important community resource for Arlington, and as a result I wrote. . .kind of a lot about it. See more photos of the bikeway and read about its history and current state on…
“Wait,” you say, “Ray, didn’t you already write about the Arlington Reservoir?” Yes, I did. But there are actually two Arlington Reservoirs in Arlington. This is the other one.
Here’s another from the archive: these promotional portraits of Sophia for their band Home Despot. This was a fun shoot! We went to Kelly’s Diner, a Ball Square staple, and shot in/near the Tufts Crafts Center, which is full of brightly colored surfaces and strange items to use as props. Assuming everything isn’t canceled for…
Toward the end of my summer at Arlington Public News of ACMi, we held did a remote newscast at the Jefferson Cutter House in Arlington Center. I was not feeling so great, so I had to sit out for most of it, but they did a great job without me!
Here’s another show from last year, in a performance style I had never imagined myself photographing: pantomime. Yes, Tufts has a mime troupe, and they booked me to photograph their spring 2018 show. Here’s what I witnessed.