Sep 17, 2009

Featured in "Visual Poetry" by Chris Orwig

Chris is a dear friend of mine so anything I say would probably sound like a plug, but I must say Visual Poetry really is a beautiful book. I first met Chris as a student while attending Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara & immediately put him in my top echelon of instructors for his ability to teach the difficult subject I was taking, Flash. I remember one of his analogies for explaining the way designing website menu navigation goes to different portfolios on a website is like one of those Russion Babushka dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. I was sure learning Flash would make me feel like trying to run through a coliseum of stairs. And it did, but I got through it with the first working website for our business.

In Visual Poetry, Chris not only creates an inspiring workshop book, but really inspires one with the photo assignments by adding the thoughts & photographs from various Legends like Joyce Tenneson:
PHOTO BELOW BY JOYCE TENNESON from "Light Warriors" Series:

PHOTO BELOW BY JOHN SEXTON from "Places of Power" Series:

PHOTO BELOW BY DOUGLAS KIRKLAND from "An Evening With Marilyn Monroe" Series:

and images of Chris’ own during his session with 9-Time World Champion Surfer, Kelly Slater:

my images from the book below:

Amazon Link to it.