May I be a douche and quote myself?

“There are already so many photos of pretty things. So sometimes I like to take photos of ugly things.”

— Griffin, Blake (UNEXPhotography). 27 Sep 2018, 17:12 UTC. Tweet

I even did a (mostly) accurate MLA formatting quote job for you there. But in all seriousness, I found myself in Germany for Photokina this year following my trend of documenting European graffiti and street art.

I really only had one day to walk around, so the majority of these were from a single session, however I do feel like I got a couple of winners. I’ll be running some prints of these for myself soon because the web just do not do them justice at all. There are so many great textures that just are missed when not looking at everything full sized.

I hope you enjoy taking a look at these as much as I enjoyed taking them. Until next time Köln, Danke!

At the end of July, while I was shooting a corset piercing for Nic of Straight Edge Tattoo in Woodstock GA, I asked if the shop wanted to run some sort of event where I came in and shot some of the work from all of the talented artists from the shop.

It didn't take much time at all for it to be decided that that would be a great idea. Having shot at the shop a few times now, it was just a matter of getting time scheduled to come by. Below are some of the pieces of work I was able to document.

Tattoos by Nic

Piercings/Dermals by Nic

Tattoos by Luke

I also used this time, to test out a new little toy that has ended up in my hands. I've always said, "I'd probably never buy a point and shoot camera, but I'd use the hell out of it if I had one". And it just so happened that I won a giveaway for a Sony RX100 M2. For a small little 1" sensor camera, I was actually pretty impressed with what it was able to produce. Below is a gallery as the photos don't exactly follow any particular theme.

So as always thanks again to Nic, Brandie, Luke, Matt, Nathan, and David for having me out. And another big thanks to everyone who took time out of their day to drop by for either some new work, or for me to point a camera at a part of your body.

Cologne (Köln) Germany - 2018.

Straight Edge Tattoo - Portfolio Day.