The book is 52 pages perfect bound on 80# Matte text stock with an #80 glossy cover.  I am really happy with how it turned out, the full page bleeds are pretty exciting.  Anyone interested in ordering head over to MagCloud!

Here are some images of the proof I have.  This is the copy I have been carting around in my bag all week and thumbing through over and over so don’t mind the wear and tear.  I promise your copy will be brand new!

This is Ian and his dog Nudie in Albuquerque, NM.

So at the end of June I went to New Mexico for my Dad’s wedding.  I had a week off of work, spent two days in Albuquerque, two days in Santa Fe where the wedding took place, and three days of adventuring.  I took the photographs for my Dad’s wedding which was way more intense than I expected.  They seem pleased with the images despite my many self-criticisms (never again).  These are the flower girls from the bride’s side of the family.  

Afterwards we got a rental car and drove to Tent Rocks.

Then a couple hours south to Truth or Consequences, NM .  We had a shitty motel room and spent a day at Elephant Butte Lake.  I loved it here, it seemed like there should have been dinosaurs roaming around.

I brought my RZ with me and took some non-phone photographs as well.  I am excited about the results but I’ve only scanned a few frames so far.  More of that will come soon.  I have been putting off scanning so I can focus on finishing up my Working Title: Walk with Diffiiculty sequence.  I have just finished a website edit including the addition of this new series.

I decided to add a web only sequence of seventeen images out of the total thirty six.  The complete sequence will be made into a book.  This is in mega early stages but it will happen.  I swear.

This show is seven images from Ordering Systems.  I used the four 16×20 flush framed prints from my senior show at RIT.

And then I made three more prints to match.  I went to Black Point Editions and had the prints made which was super easy, fast and they look great!  I recommend.  

Printed up a statement and wall tags for each piece.  Which was a total pain because I am so OCD.

And then… success the final install!  Nailing into brick is not cool.  My arm is a bit sore.  Thanks Brett, Thanks Handlebar!

There are 3 images from Ordering Systems going in the show.

The vertical image is a later one in the series that I have never seen framed, looks pretty awesome.

These are 14×18 prints in 16×20 mats for $120

All wrapped up and ready to go to the show.  I’m so pro.  I’m so tired.

N.B.  My flash is acting real funky (replacement in progress) and these pictures are color balanced weird and tonally inconsistent.  I do not wish to misrepresent myself by posting shitty looking photographs but it’s late and I have a 6 am call time so just deal.  Please.  Thanks!

Now it is a week before and I realize AGAIN that these are not 8×10 prints and that I can’t use the 8.5×11 paper I have.  Idiot.  So Panic time, I start calling around town trying to find the paper I need, but no luck.  So I get on amazon and rush ship it from there.  Crisis averted.  But I miss the damned UPS guy and then memorial day weekend hits.  SO screwed.  They won’t deliver again until Wednesday.  By the time I have time free the only place I can attempt to get last minute emergency supplies is Blick.  I buy a pack of Canson 13×19 $90 paper, get it home and find out there is no profile for my printer (she’s getting on in years and there are no profiles for newer papers).  I try printing on it anyway because I am desperate, this is sunday night and I am supposed to hang Monday.  I tweak and tweak and make test print after test print and they all look like shit.

I give up.  Call the shop and tell them it has to be late and there is nothing I can do about it.  I hate being late, I hate losing, and I hate being unprofessional.  My paper shows up Wednesday night after I spent a grueling day photo assisting up at Northwestern (which was great!).  Got up today finished my prints in no time, they looked beautiful, put on my white gloves, and framed them up.  I booked a zip car headed up to Beans and Bagels and got to hanging.  Of course hanging was a total pain in the ass also, the wall is covered in a sheets of fabric so my wall marks kept wiggling around and the floor is horrifyingly uneven but WHO CARES I’M DONE!

Yay!  What a silly mess.  So this is some of my new work I have up at a cafe in Chicago, they are for sale too!  Wish me luck.

My framing station (I repackaged them in the cardboard after I was done for safety)

My floor gallery

My wall gallery!

More news soon for sure.

It feels great.

Knowing I have this one little wall in this one little room, that gets to be mine for a month, has whet my appetite for showing my work.  I should have been doing this a year ago when I first moved here.  I should have hit the ground running, but I didn’t.  I have consistently been proactive about job-hunting ever since graduation, really I have.  (I am determined to get out of food service and it will happen.)  I haven’t been determined (or confident) about sharing my work and  pursuing exhibition opportunities.  It’s scary.  My skin is thin when it comes to my work, but finally doing nothing was feeling worse than rejection.  And tentatively I already have another show booked.  I have a lot of plans and a lot of ideas.  I just need to stay focused.

I am getting ready to make this final.  I am displaying some of these images starting June 1st in a local cafe so that is a bit of a deadline.  There will only be room for a portion of the final series so I don’t need to make my final selections and all prints by then, but I do need to get a good idea of what the final product will be.  I CAN NOT edit and sequence on the computer (Who can?) so I have made mini-prints and installed a strip of cork board panels in my office.  I thought having them in my living space would help me to thin out the herd of 49 images but so far I have not had any grand realizations.  Instead the line of images is beginning to seem like a single piece and distracting me from any sequencing.  It was nice in concept anyway.  It is always nice to finally see physical prints after staring at the computer screen for so long.  In no time I will have some of these printed full size and framed which I am very excited about.  Next step: Website addition.  Next Next step: hunting for more places to show this work.  Next Next Next step: Make small book.

(I like viewing two at once, I may edit a couple together into one frame and overlap the audio once I have some editing software.)

30 second 1 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 2 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 3 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 4 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 5 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 6 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 7 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 8 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

30 second 9 from Jessica Pierotti on Vimeo.

N.B.   I just finished reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger which I really enjoyed.  It’s jam packed with ideas of advertising, portraiture, the role of photography, the depiction of  woman throughout art and media; and delivered with such a personable tone that it makes a quick and fun read.