Redlights and Redeyes

ok @instagram, you win. #apublicapology

December 30, 2011 by chip

You know what, Instagram? I’m sorry. I cursed you and your buddy Hipstamatic for the last couple years. You were destroying our industry, flooding our market with imagery, and making the construction and process of image-making too easy and less intellectual. I was one of, if not the guy who wrote the blog post that started the whole Damon Winter/POYi mess. I cursed iPhoneography, Holgaroids, and Urban Outphittography™. Oooooh, I like that – Urban Outphittography. Note the ™. I’m big [...]

Categories: accidental rothko, chip litherland, news, photography, photojournalism industry, photos, sprawlscapes • Tags: Chip Litherland, damon winter, ethics, Hipstamatic, Holga, Instagram, Lomo, photojournalism, poyi, public apology, urban outfitters

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hey hot shot!

July 21, 2011 by chip

Got a nice little write up from the fine folks over at Jen Bekman Gallery and 20×200 for the upcoming Hey Hot Shot! competition. I have no idea if I’ll make the cut or not, but it was cool to read someone else’s take on a project I literally do just for fun when I’m bored or in need of a visual reset. Thanks – love the site! Tweet

Categories: accidental rothko, contests, in print, news, photos, promo, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes • Tags: 20x200, accidental rothko, Chip Litherland, color, cover up, cover-ups, graffiti, hey hot shot

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the hunt for red

June 27, 2011 by chip

Ah, red…how I missed thee. I don’t hang my camera around my shoulder everywhere I go anymore. It’s not the fact that I don’t enjoy shooting, because I love it more than anything other vice I have, but I just don’t feel like everything needs to be photographed at every moment. There’s too much of that going on right now. I have an iPhone like everyone else just in case a Pulitzer happens to fall in my lap. I want [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, travel • Tags: business blitz, chinatown, Chip Litherland, color, food, lunch, nppa, photojournalism, primary color, red, south beach, street shooting, Travel, washington d.c.

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foreclosureda

May 16, 2011 by chip

Assignment: go on tour with realtor and reporter to homes left abandoned in North Port, FL. If anything had “oh-no” written all over it, that did. I’ve been on the “tour-with-realtor” assignments a million times before, not getting into any house, struggling to make pictures at 65 mph. However, the realtor, Shannon Moore, saved the day. She understood exactly what I wanted, and had all the codes and keys to make it happen over a couple hours on an [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, The New York Times • Tags: Chip Litherland, Florida, foreclosure, housing crash, new york times, north port, port charlotte

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room with a view (room 3031)

May 9, 2011 by chip

It’s the same for every one of us. You finally check into a random hotel, cart all your belongings up an elevator, down a hallway, and end up at a numbered door. The door entry card never works the first time, but then you get it to open, push open the heaviest door you’ve ever encountered, and walk into a dark room grasping for the first light switch so you can dump the 200 lbs of luggage onto one [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, travel • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, downtown, epic hotel, glass, high-rise, hoptel views, landscapes, miami, reflections, room with a view

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houston deconstructed

February 7, 2011 by chip

Landmarks and maps are for the devil. When I travel I’m usually shooting pre-determined locations that reveal the best side of a certain location for some magazine or newspaper. I was in Houston, Texas, to shoot a wedding this weekend for a quick 36 hours. On Saturday, I took advantage of being a father and not being able to sleep in for the life of me. I woke up early, grabbed a 5D Mark II, a 50mm f/1.4 and just [...]

Categories: accidental rothko, photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, travel • Tags: accidental rothko, Chip Litherland, color, decay, graffitti, houston, photojournalism, sprawlscapes, texas, Travel

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murder in celebration

December 3, 2010 by chip

Gawrsh, something happened in Mickey’s town. A m-u-r-d-e-r. It was the first one in 14 years since the master-planned community was developed by Disney. People always equate suburbia and cookie cutter homes to “Pleasantville” and the like, but Celebration is about as close as you are going to get to the epitome of landscaped perfection. Everything is immaculate, people are overly-friendly, and nothing ever happens…can’t believe I’m writing like a morning news show… …until the other day when a man [...]

Categories: sprawlscapes, The New York Times, travel • Tags: Celebration, chip, community, crime, Disney, goofy, litherland, master-planned, mickey, Orlando, pleasantville, The New York Times, Travel

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accidental rothko (v4.0)

September 23, 2010 by chip

Another installment of my Accidental Rothko series…got to travel the state a little bit for these. Gainesville, Apalachicola, Miami, and of course back home in Sarasota. Random. Color. Happiness. Tweet

Categories: accidental rothko, photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes • Tags: accidental rothko, apalachicola, art, chip, color, cover-ups, Florida, gainesville, graffiti, litherlan, miami, paint, photojournalism, walls

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accidental rothko (v3.0)

May 27, 2010 by chip

Whenever I need a kick start visually, I always try to revert back to something fun and meaningless. My so-called “Accidental Rothko” series is always on-going leading me through hoods and alleyways, warehouses and strip malls looking for interesting splatters of paint, decaying walls, and graffiti cover-ups reminiscent of Mr. Rothko’s paintings. This is a hodgepodge of frames from Lake Okeechobee, St. Petersburg, Bradenton, and back home in Sarasota. If anything, this little project gets me recharged, it also gets [...]

Categories: accidental rothko, photos, sprawlscapes

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service

April 6, 2010 by chip

Gutted car dealership. Bradenton, Florida. Tweet

Categories: photos, sprawlscapes

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