I stopped by my friend Nicole's house for a family photo shoot with Rocco and Graziella in Logan Square. Rocco was a little grumpy with the early morning call time, but he warmed up with his toy camera and showed off his Chicago Cubs baseball bat. Nicole read a book to the kids and I captured some special moments of the baby with her mother. 

I took installation photos of Iris Bernblum’s installation Today is a New Day that was on view at the Chicago Artist Coalition in April. Iris is a multi media artist who explores ideas surrounding “tension and release, power and play, fantasy and escape using a range of media, including writing, video, photography, and sculpture”. The concepts of Power-Play, Tension-Release are presented in a three ring circus where Berblum is the Ringmaster. This exhibition was a solo show for the Bolt Residency program. 

The Country Doctors came to my studio for a classy photo shoot of the group of six musicians. They get together once a month to play covers of some on my favorite old country songs. The band uses authentic country instruments like the pedal steel guitar and you can see them live this Friday night Aug 26th at Carey's Lounge at 9pm. 

In April I photographed Lauren Ball's exhibition Old Dynamite at Free Range Gallery.  Lauren Ball uses still life language as inspiration and a jumping off point to explore color and create a unique palette. Lauren likes to play between the abstract and the literal when applying color and form to her canvas.  She create still lives and uses the color in the objects to create her custom pallete  which takes the shape of abstraction forms. She uses Photoshop to alter her source material and thus reflects her memory of them. The paintings and forms become color silhouettes and this adds to and creates an air of  mystery and monumentality

I was driving down the West coast earlier this year and found some old friends camping out at Limekiln State Park in Big Sur. I decided to stop for the night and join the camping party. We spent the night catching up under the Big Sequoia Trees beside the camp fire eating home made cookies. We hiked up to the old Limekilns and beside a flowing river up to the top of a mountain to find a water fall. We got in our swim suits and played in the sand by the Pacific Ocean. We shared secrets and stories and sang songs and giggled in the clover patches and fell asleep beside the babbling brook. 

Here the sculptures echo the decimal-based forms of Cuisenaire Rods, a modern tool to teach children basic math and fittingly, a reference to the iconic American quilt patterns of Log Cabin & Basic Patch. The rational objects support and contrast to the psychedelic textiles. Embedded in the hand-stitched textiles are Signs – pointing to, in no particular order – Numerical Statistics of current Gender Pay-Gap discrepancies, Sentient Creatures, All-Seeing Eyes, Symbols of Dissent & Assent, Embedded Woodland Animals, The Hunt, Amusements, Alchemic Star Charts, and Signifiers of the Self.

I joined the Northwestern Solar Car Team at the Adler Planetarium over Earthfest Weekend in April. It was so cool to see the solar car driven around by the students who helped build it. 

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Got some beautiful photos from the shoot with the Art Institute's Evening Associates in the SAIC Ballroom. Fashion provided by Azeeza Khan and Nicholas Hansen http://www.azeeza.us/ and http://customsuitsyou.com/ Make up by Bianca Sansosti http://www.biancamakeup.net/ © Clare Britt Photo

A view of some classic antique postcards in the Greetings From Midway exhibition at the Logan Gallery at the University of Chicago. #postcards #chicago history #worldsfair #logangallery #uofc #artworkphotography

Iris Bernblum at Chicago Artists Coalition part of BOLT Residency. ©Clare Britt Photo

Such Beautiful weather last weekend for a February wedding. Check out the tiny Bride and Groom at Alice Millar Chapel in Evanston followed by the Reception at the Kenilworth Club. © Rick Aguilar Studios

Faye Wrubel's retirement portrait for the New Member's Magazine. Many thanks to Faye for her many years of conservation service at the Museum. It was fun listening to her stories of rescuing artwork from damage. ©Clare Britt Photo

Love the simple lines and heavy weight of the metal work combined with the text drawings from Mark Booth’s exhibition “The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape” at Sector 2337. ©ClareBrittPhoto

Such a fun night! Special thanks to Midnight Kitchen Projects and DJ Camp Botiak, we raised so much money for One Tail at a Time. Dance all night! 

Some Favorite moments from the Night time portion of the Photo Party. #fightthefebs

Fun Photos from #fightthefebs! Babies, flower crowns and doggies, such a fun Winter Saturday!