John Sluder Photography Blog

Month: April 2009

  • Up coming Museum Show

    From Gutter to Gallery: Graffiti Gets In the Melbourne Museum of Art Dates: 5/16/2009 to 7/12/2009 From its beginnings on the streets as rebellious communication to its acceptance in private collections and galleries to its influence on marketing and consumerism, graffiti as a style, as an influence, and as an art form cannot be denied.…

  • Graffiti session with Slow & Deps

    I am preparing for a museum show in May. I met up with graffiti artists Slow and Deps to get some video and stills for the show. Shoots with graffiti artist is very different that shooting models. I interact a great deal with models. With a model I would instruct them were to stand, how to…

  • Documenting a mural painting and other news

        I have been asked to document a wall mural being paint by the graffiti artist Slow. He just open a new store (http://www.slowinc.com/) in downtown Melbourne. I really need a place to get some new clothes, I am very fashion “stunted” to state it politely. I shot video all yesterday and will contine to shoot…

  • Cynic photo shoot

    This is a shoot I did while watching Cynic paint a piece. He invited me to participate with his crew in a museum show that will be in May. This series is in preparation for that show. I wanted to approach the shoot with the idea of showing the painter in the urban element.  Simply snapping a few pictures of…

  • Graffiti removal

    I found this very interesting. The art of the graffiti removal “artist” in comparison of the great abstract artist and interesting point of view…

  • Graffiti writing…

    I have been tagging along with a local crew of graffiti artist. I accompanied Cynic to a local secret location. He was working on a quick piece and I was along to shoot the painting process.  This was an interesting shoot for me. At first the images I was getting was just not hitting the mark…

  • Graffiti

    I was honored with a request to shoot some murals (graffiti) by a local artist Cynic. The location is no longer public accessible, so it will remain a secret. Jeff was able to secure legal permission for me to be on site to shoot some amazing work. Cynic & This time lapse graffiti This was done in…