Camden Hardy Photography

Here are some images from Camden Hardy.  Mr. Hardy is a graduate of Montana State University and will be attending Grad School at University of Arizona in Fall 2009.  Much of his work deals with social landscapes in Bozeman, Montana and Lihue, Hawaii.  Some of his work that I really enjoy are stitched collages of landscapes in the Beartooth Mountain Range (see top image).  Mr. Hardy is also involved in a collaborative project between students and professors of MSU documenting the greater Bozeman area over time called the Bozeman Survey Project.  Mr. Hardy photographs with both large and medium formats with a distinct style including much of the foreground.  Check out Mr. Hardy's website.

Zachary S. Allen Photography

Check out the photography of fellow MSU Graduate Zachary S. Allen.  His work documents people and places from areas in which he feels important for various reasons.  The Hi-Line is a project documenting the Hi-Line region of Northern Montana, which surrounds what was originally the Great Northern Railway.  While staying near Cutbank, Montana, Mr. Allen has chosen some very interesting landscapes to include in this series as well as some great portraits; a house which was "Once Montana's Largest Meth Lab" and a "Texaco Oil Cleanup Site" as well as a guy named "Kodiak".  Roseland is a body of photographs documenting a new sustainably built "green" community near Richmond, Virginia.  His work shows the impenetrable, dominating forest that is the setting for this community based on the "New Urbanism" philosophy.  The Transitory project documents the area around Bozeman, Montana in a manner similar to Stephen Shore.  Mr. Allen is also part of a collaborative project called The Bozeman Survey Project, documenting the greater Bozeman, Montana area with students and professors of MSU.  All of Mr. Allen's photographs were created using 4x5 or 8x10 format and in the hopes of re-photographing several of the images over time.

Link to Zachary Allen's website.

Four Corners, Montana -New Images and Statement

Treecouch

Jason- Painter

Sebastian and Timmy- Monforton School Students

                  This project focuses on the residents and landscapes of Four Corners, Montana in the Gallatin County.  Four Corners is located at 45.667876 degrees North, 111.182530 degrees West, which is approximately eight miles west of the Bozeman city center.  The Gallatin County spreads over 2,500 square miles with Bozeman being the densest conglomeration of citizens, but relying on the many hardworking residents commuting from one of the outlying communities like Four Corners.  I find this area particularly interesting due to the vast array of unique businesses, business owners, and community members.  These surrounding communities are a large part of the adhesive that hold the Bozeman municipal together as a whole.

Four Corners, Montana Landscapes

Some more large format photographs taken on my adventures in the Four Corners community.

Four Corners, Montana

Jeff- Custom Hill Design

Colleen and Nick- Greenspace Nursery and Alaska Drilling

Travis, Ayden, and Kandace- Ressler Automotive

Noah- Everlast Paint and Body

Four Corners, Montana

Robert- K.O.A. Campground

Timmy and Sebastian- Monforton School Students

Jason- Painter

Josh- Custom Woodwork and Carpentry

Gallatin Gateway School Photography Class

These are some more photographs created by the students in my Gallatin Gateway School Photography Class from Spring Semester 2009.

Gallatin Gateway School Photography Class

These photographs were created by my 6th-8th grade students from my Digital Photography Class at Gallatin Gateway School. 

Four Corners, Montana - Mike and Chris

Mike- Montana State University

Chris- KM Construction 

Four Corners, Montana-Tyler

Tyler- Concrete Worker

Four Corners, MT

These are raw 4x5 color negative film scans from a project I started working on in April 2009.  I am documenting Four Corners, Montana which sits approximately eight miles west of the Bozeman city center.  I find this place particularly interesting due to the vast array of unique businesses, business owners, and community members.  The Gallatin Valley spreads over 2,500 square miles with Bozeman being the densest conglomeration of citizens, but relying on the many hardworking residents commuting from one of the outlying communities like Four Corners, which seem to be a large part of the adhesive that hold the Bozeman municipal together as a whole.

more beautiful people from SPE

La Familia

SPE PORTRAITS

I thought I would start my blog off right with the first post being these amazing portraits from the SPE (Society for Photographic Education) National Conference 2009 in Dallas, TX.  These were from the dance party on Saturday night at the Fairmont Dallas, where the conference took place.  Thanks Fairmont for putting up with us camping across the street for most of the week. Six of us photography students from Montana State University drove my 1978 Jamboree from Bozeman, MT to Dallas, TX, about 1500 miles.  It was worth every mile.