We photographed cancer survivor Joe Bacal for Lexus last month and these are a few faves. From Joe’s Facebook Fan Page:
“Joe Bacal refuses to let chaos bring him down. He thrives in the extreme world of off-road racing. And he waged war on cancer and won. Now, Joe’s on a mission to help others take control of the chaos in their lives.
A lifelong car enthusiast and professional test driver, Joe was on vacation with his family when he discovered a lump that seemed to randomly grow and shrink. Months later, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Throughout 2007, Joe endured surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Faced with his own mortality yet bolstered by the support of his family, friends and the experts at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Joe’s vision to start a professional driving business and compete in world-class off-road racing crystallized.
Beating cancer takes stamina, endurance and a supportive team – not so different from off-road racing. Joe crossed the Baja 500 finish line in June 2009 after 16 hours of continuous driving. And he took control again in the “granddaddy” of off-road racing at the perilous Baja 1000, driving more than 27 hours across desert terrain.
A true iron man, Joe wants other patients to know they are in the driver’s seat when it comes to fighting cancer.
“You can’t win the race if you don’t finish,” says Joe. “To finish, you need to be in control of what’s ahead of you and supported by a great team and family and friends who love you.”"
For those of you who weren’t able to attend Chaos Theory X, this is Scene&Heard, my piece for the show and part of a series of personal images taken while traveling Ireland. The piece is 40×60, museum mounted on plexi, edition of 10.
These are some samples from a little pro-bono ad campaign for Ear Candy, a non-profit “devoted to providing kids access to music education. Music is our Universal Language and the children of this world deserve the opportunity to be exposed to its powerful influence. EAR CANDY has created a solution to address the growing epidemic of music being ripped out of schools. We support in school programs by collecting and placing instruments in pre-established programs. We also create after-school programs with community partners like Boys & Girls Clubs.”
It’s been a very busy month to say the least. With several ad campaigns and a handful of editorial projects under my belt on top of the annual Chaos Theory exhibit at the studio on the 2nd I’m finally just coming up for air. Thanks to my new editorial clients GreenSource and Colorodo’s 5280, we made some great new images that I will be proud to share soon after they’ve been published.
Advertising projects for Barbasol’s Pure Silk shaving cream as well as Grand Canyon University however ate up most of my time…here’s a sampling of the Grand Canyon University project shot with AD Chris Cavalieri at Moses Anshell.
Sullivan&Lane (photographer Brandon Sullivan & illustrator Kyle Lane) worked in conjunction with ACD Todd Aldridge of LGA Advertising to create legend dioramas for the company Alcan (makers of Fome-Cor, Gatorfoam, etc.) The intended final purpose of each image was to create a diorama of the photo-illustrated scene on the material that particular legend was associated with. Here you will find both the series of finished ads as well as a video produced by LGA highlighting concepting of the piece within LGA and showing the printing and fabrication process of the final Neptune piece itself.
A few months ago I had the pleasure of working with Santy on another Pheonix Childrens Hospital Campaign, this time for the Sports Medicine department. Juliana Gonzalez, AD, just sent me over these PDF’s of the finished ads which are now released so here they are for your viewing pleasure. A big thanks to all involved!
Our family just returned from a French/Irish journey that left me with a tad over three thousand photos to sort through and try my darndest to figure out what the hell I’m going to do with now (one thing I do know is that many of them will be HERE shortly.) It was an amazing experience though, to be able to shoot strictly for myself for three weeks and respark that feeling that existed before the clients and the need to perform, definitely a nice change of pace.
BUT, really what was more amazing was the ability to spend a solid three weeks enjoying my family, who I don’t see nearly enough of anymore these days. In this photo you can see our baby boy, Cian, lamped out at Versailles, totally unimpressed. However, we made up for it by feeding animals the next day.
