JUSTIN STEWART PHOTOGRAPHY

Travel Synopsis part 2

2011-12-12T20:53:00.000-08:00

View from the shower in Amsterdam.

Taking off in the plane headed for Kenya

First night in Nairobi at the hostel.

Walking downtown in Nairobi

A vendor at the market in Nairobi.

View of downtown Nairobi from the University.

Waiting for the bus to Khwisero in Nairobi.

Arriving at Jackson's house in Khwisero.

EWB office in Khwisero.

Fruit one of the kids at the school gave me.

Tree from a walk with Ryan, Pony, and our guide Safina.

Waiting for the flight back out of Kenya after we missed our first flight.

Still waiting. Enjoying one of the last Tuskers I'd have and editing photos.

He didn't think I could get the photo.... HA

You bet your silly ass that's bubblicious in my hat.

Too much flying.

Waiting in Amsterdam on our layover.

Flying over Greenland.

Waiting in Minneapolis airport for the flight back to Bozeman.

Stuck on the plane for half an hour after landing. It's now past midnight. We just want to get off.

Finally back home.

Travel Synopsis part 1

2011-12-12T20:05:00.000-08:00

Ryan

Leaving Bozeman.

On the way to Amsterdam.

Waiting on a plane in Frankfurt. They gave us a chocolate bar while we were grounded because of a lightening storm.

Churches in Nurenberg.

.... & Stevi (right)

Flo

"Work Will Set You Free" Dachau

"You are without rights, dishonorable and defenseless. You're a pile of shit and that is how you're going to be treated." From the address of the protective custody camp leader, Josef Jarolin, to the new Dachau prisoners.

"Bubblebath" Gas chamber. Dachau's was never used.

Dinner with the Germans.

"No beer before 4"

Flat in Amsterdam.

Just before boarding the plane the Kenya.

Exposure 2011 | Justin Stewart

2011-11-22T15:48:00.000-08:00

Exposure 2011 | Justin Stewart

Help my work get some exposure. Come vote for me!

Maya Angelou Lecture

2011-11-01T15:21:00.000-07:00

A few months ago I was hired by MSU-Bozeman to photograph the Maya Angelou Lecture. Here are a couple of my shots.

Homeless Vietnam Vet

2011-10-19T09:48:00.000-07:00

An image I captured this last Spring 2011 on my way to the Senior Photo Show. This is a homeless Vietnam veteran in Bozeman, MT. He was a very nice man who was rather ashamed of his status but didn’t want any help.

Taken with a Pentax 6X7.

Kenya

2011-07-31T00:44:00.000-07:00

HELLO

Checking myself for sunburns - looking sharp

Here's a few of my digital images from my trip this summer. I was in the Khwisero district in Kenya for a month documenting EWB- MSU (Engineers Without Borders) work there over the past five years. I'm making a book for them. It was quite the experience. I learned a lot and grew as a photographer as well as a person. I used my digital mainly for my project and took my fun shots with my Yashica. Still gotta develop all that film!!! Feel free to tell me what you think.

Khwisero

Secondary boys watching tank lowering- I like the one looking at me

Discussion at EWB's office in Khwisero

Child in a tree with Machete

Composting latrine meeting

Child with Machete

Head teacher of Ebuhonga

Children at Ebuhonga

Piki

Eyeglass clinic at Mundeku

Two children returning to Mundeku Primary

Texas helping lower a water tank at Ekatsumbaro

Children surrounding me as I sit down at Emwiru

Pony asking the kids "Sup?"

EWBer's and a couple Kenyan's watch Star Wars on my laptop

4th of July Celebration with Jackson's family

My First 4x5 Fuji Instant Stripped Negatives

2011-06-17T21:51:00.000-07:00

So I head off to Kenya in the morning (with a 9 day layover in Europe) and I wanted to get in one more post before I left. Here are my first "4x5 Fuji Instant Stripped Negatives." I loves it. It was so awesome doing the whole process. Reminded me of the feeling of developing my first roll of film. Thanks to Joey Early for teaching it to me. He is a great friend and one of the awesomest influences of my work lately. You can check out his work on his personal blog here.

My very first. Of course my shutter drug and ended up overexposing it. I dropped it off at the repair shop yesterday to get it fixed while I'm off traveling.

(The blotches on a couple of them are marks from developer accidentally getting on the negative. Lesson learned.)

My fave. Joey Early.

On another note, I've been pretty happy with the portraiture push I've been doing. I'll try to do an update while I'm traveling, but I wouldn't count on it!

Peace, love, empathy

My New Nikon AF 50mm

2011-05-31T09:39:00.000-07:00

Decided to purchase a f1.8 50mm lens for my trip to Kenya this summer. Here's just a couple of my first shots I've taken with it. I've been playing with my ISO as well for a little practice for more difficult lighting situations in Kenya.

*The two pictures in the car are actually with my 10-24mm

Tried to capture it at 1/13. Couldn't quite pull it off.....

Shots from April

2011-05-30T20:16:00.000-07:00

Didn't have time to dust these but I wanted to put them up anyways. Really busy with school and preparations for my trip to Kenya in a couple weeks. Forced the time for scanning these into my schedule because I couldn't stand looking at them just sitting there collecting dust.

Hugs not drugs.

Dead Bird

Joey Early

Mark A. Lee

Scratch Ticket

Traffic Cones

Spring Sky

My Squashed Fruit Gum Project

2011-05-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

Here's a small version of my Gum prints I did for my final. The process I printed them in is called Gum (Gum Bichromate). You first make 3 digital negatives for the image (you split the image in Photoshop into it's three colors red, green, and blue). For each negative there is a corresponding color of gum which you have to print it with. The three colors of gum you use are yellow, blue, and red. The average layers on the prints below is about 6. It takes approximately an hour to do each layer. Most of the time is spent waiting on the print to finish washing. I spent over 40 hours printing all of these. It was a really interesting experience and the more I printed the more I learned. I shot the pictures with my Yashica 124-G and scanned the film (Expired Fuji 160)

For those more interested in the concept, the project was a reaction to Edward Weston's "Nature Series"

Hope you enjoy them!

Squashed Apple

Squashed Banana

Squashed Eggplant

Squashed Grapefruit

Squashed Orange

Squashed Red Pepper

Squashed Tomato

Squashed Watermelon

Squashed Yellow Pepper

Some expired Fujicolor Pro 160C shots

2011-05-10T15:17:00.000-07:00

Experimental and a few Alt. images

2011-04-03T21:41:00.000-07:00

Cyano over Platinum

Platinum

Burned Negative


Sepia Toned


Mordancage

Copper and blue toning

Mordancage

©JustinStewart

Butte, MT

2011-03-09T17:01:00.000-08:00

Some photos from a recent field trip to Butte

Abandoned Trailer Park

2011-01-25T12:33:00.000-08:00

CANADA

2010-09-23T17:25:00.000-07:00