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Dec 07 2011

Recent Photo Shoot – Food and Water Watch – Washington, DC

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Just wrapped up some photography for the good folks at Food and Water Watch in Washington, DC. Food & Water Watch is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization and consumer rights group which focuses on corporate and government accountability relating to food, water, and fishing. I was hired to make portraits of the staff of the organization. They needed head shots, so instead of the standard and “typical” headshot on a seamless, we went for something a bit more contemporary, relaxed, and “hip”, photographing outdoors on the roof of their office building.

Food and Water Watch portraits by Forrest MacCormack - December, 2011 - Washington, DC

My photo assistant holds a reflector on a Food and Water Watch staffer.

Group photograph of Food and Water Watch staff in Washington, DC by Forrest MacCormack

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Nov 22 2011

New site about Edward D. Andrus – 1950′s Washington, DC photographer.

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I’ve created a new website for the collection of large format (4″x5″) negatives from the 1950′s that I acquired from the estate of Edward D. Andrus. I have some brief biographical information on Andrus at this time and I’m working on a more complete biography of him. I purchased a collection of several hundred negatives in 1995 from an antique dealer who bought them at auction from Andrus’s estate. I’ve sat on this work for 16 years since I acquired his negatives. I feel that it is time that his work gets seen and shared. I’m embarking on scanning the work and creating an online archive of the images so that historians and archivists can use them as reference.

The site is very new and as time goes on it will grow. Hopefully there will be an appreciative audience of his work especially in the Washington, DC area. There are hundreds of Andrus negatives to pour over and learn from, and discover things. I see it as having hundreds of windows into the past in which the shades are getting pulled up and light put into after nearly sixty years of darkness.

Give the site a look.. It will grow as time goes on.. here is the link: 1950′s DC Photographer – Edward D. Andrus

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Oct 23 2011

Josh Gibson’s Kudzu film

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Duke University instructor Josh Gibson has created a stunningly beautiful fim about Kudzu. It was filmed entirely in the Carolinas. The Raleigh News & Observer ran an article today about his film-making. Josh hand develops the film in his basement and shoots on an 1960′s era Russian motion picture camera. Give the movie a look. I think it is a fine example of gritty “Southern Gothic” film-making.

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October 25, 2011 - 2:15 PM

Josh Gibson - Forrest:

Thanks for your kind words and for blogging about Kudzu Vine.

Best Regards,

Josh

Oct 07 2011

The Burnt Cove Church – Stonington, Maine

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I photographed the Burnt Cove Church located on Deer Isle, Maine the other day along with photographer/painter Walter Smalling. Our photos will be used to raise funds to help restore the seaside church which is over 150 years old. The Stonington Opera House will use the church as an annex for its many programs. Here are a few of the images I made.