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New work by Eric Millette -
shots of Marc Benioff CEO of SalesForce.com -
for a Fujitsu custom publication out of London

Sunday April 25 The New York Times Magazine published an assignment I recently shot for their Q&A page, a portrait of Craig Robinson, head coach of men’s basketball at Oregon State University and perhaps more famous as the brother to First Lady, Michele Obama.

This is the most recent of many of these shoots I’ve done for the Magazine’s long running feature and I always enjoy them. For one the people are always fascinating, intelligent and sometimes controversial, which makes for an interesting sitting.

But I also enjoy the simplicity of isolating a subject on white. Of course this is the technique that Avedon made famous. He said “It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense . . .symbolic of themselves.” For most of my work incorporating the subject’s environment or location is often as important as the subject themselves, but when shooting on white it becomes totally about the sitter.

I also like the challenge of creating a studio on location and I’ve done these shoots in parking lots, basements, hallways, hotel rooms and more weird places than I can remember.

Robbie McClaran

Rich Frishman photograph of the Imperial San Dunes

Prominent international photographer Rich Frishman has been awarded the Grand Prize in an international photographic competition and exhibition sponsored by the City of Palm Springs. The “Earth Through A Lens” exhibition will feature “Imperial Sand Dunes,” a mammoth 8-foot giclée print by Frishman. The grand prize image depicts hundreds of sand buggies racing across the scenic desert dunes in southeastern California. The sweeping panorama is actually composed of more than 200 separate images shot during a 2-day period. The winning print will hang in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Palm Springs.

Only 30 images were selected for exhibition. Three of them, the limit an artist could submit, are by Frishman. In addition to the grand prize winner, his panoramic images “Bombay Beach” and “Garbage Dump; Essex, California” will be exhibited in galleries along Palm Canyon Drive, the heart of Palm Springs’ art and business district.

The “Earth Through A Lens” exhibition is to honor the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22, 2010. Frishman and his work will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the Hyatt Palm Springs that evening.

Langley, WA resident Frishman, whose photography regularly appears on the covers of Life, Time, Sports Illustrated and numerous other national magazines, began creating high-resolution landscapes of the Mojave and Colorado deserts in the fall of 2008. Since then he has continued to advance his photographic art portfolio, which, features highly detailed multiple image montages and one-of-a-kind collages.

An example of Frishman’s photomosaic collage work can currently be seen at Brackenwood Gallery in Langley. “The Dog House” is a 4×6-foot photomosaic composed of 217 separate prints shot over 18 months.

To view an online gallery these and other desert landscapes, go to: http://www.frishphoto.com/gallery.html?gallery=MOJAVE DESERT

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