http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project An entire Lightstalkers thread via RSS/XML. en-us Hello all! I just had a long-term project published in part in National Geographic's Photo Journal section and the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine. Here is a link to an online gallery: http://www.chicagotribune.com/cagwin Thanks for looking. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:45:12 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project Beautiful, in concept and its execution. I have so many favorites. It becomes evident that you really care about your subjects. ciao, Nina Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:03 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#110983 Great work! The photo essay was very informing of how things have changed in those last 7 years. The juxtaposition of people and emotions with the landscape works really well. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#110984 Wonderful work Scott: funny, insightful, sad, inevitable....some brilliant shots (love the shot of farmer grandmother photographing stone!) and as a series of diptychs just wonderful! :))...for an optimist, you sure have insight into melancholy! :)) thanks for sharing Scott!... cheers b Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:00:15 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#110988 all i can say is, "DAMN!" awesome possum. wow. im smiling. maybe i shouldn't be.... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:50:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#110998 strong, strong work. with staying power. thanks for spending the time there. both times. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:19:56 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111023 thanks for the comments...now I have to find a book publisher...any ideas? Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:58:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111102 Amazing work, Scott! I loved your original story on the Cagwins, but this update –with the diptychs– takes it to a whole 'nother level. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:43:10 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111111 Sadly great..... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:58:14 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111113 Scott, this is an amazing body of work. Great job at your persistence to follow this through... and sharing it with everyone! Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:02:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111148 Lovely, honest images. I agree with Bob about the grandmother diptych -- fantastic. Your project is very different, but it reminds me of Bill Owens work. I wonder if the publisher who did the re-issue of Suburbia might be worth approaching?? They are called Fotofolio. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:10:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111170 I really liked your vision in this project. You took a good concept and through your presentation, made it a great one. Nice work man! Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:53:36 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#111435 Scott, I loved looking at your work - truly memorable images. I could not help but concentrate on the left side of the screen as I have been working on a similar project on 3 dairy farm families in Wisconsin for 5.5 years. The juxtaposition of farm and suburb is brilliant. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:05:41 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#117955 Thank you for sharing. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:48:51 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#117977 Thank you for posting the link to your work. Honestly I don't think I have enjoyed viewing a body of work like this for a long. long time. I totally enjoy the real moments in emotion and light. I especially appreciate the tenacity required in your editing process. It's clear to me how well integrated and connected you are with your environment. .. I have so many questions , so just a few - In one of the dyptichs I notices a 13 year difference in photos, while the average seemed to be about 7. Do you live in this community? Were you "just" documenting your community and did the project present itself/evolve naturally or is this something that you had set out to do? I especially love the photos of the man playing with the toy tractor in juxtaposition to the young boy drinking from a green glass with the tractor t-shirt... the wife putting/fixing her husbands hat while the mother putting on her daughters.. the tractor birthday cake, the window view.. Really really enjoyable work and images. Thanks so much for sharing. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:16:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#118018 Try approaching University of Chicago Press. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:47:22 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#118024 Scott, just getting caught up.. Congratulations on your POYi award! http://www.poyi.org/65/NPOY/index.php Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:51:26 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#118025 Ana, thanks for the kind words. I will try to answer your questions. In one of the dyptichs I notices a 13 year difference in photos, while the average seemed to be about 7. Do you live in this community? I live about 15 minutes away from the subdivision. I shot the farm for the first time in May, 1994, and except for a visit now and again, I didn't seriously start documenting Harlow and Jean Cagwin until 1999. I shot at least once a week until they left the farm in July, 2002. Were you “just” documenting your community and did the project present itself/evolve naturally or is this something that you had set out to do? When I got back to shooting the farm in 1999, I started hearing rumblings that the Cagwins were going to eventually sell the farm. At that point I decided to keep shooting until they left. When the Cagwins left in 2002, I told myself that "someday" I would return to the land to document a subdivision family. I put it off and put it off until March 2007 when I showed my farm work to a photo class at a local community college. One of the students in that class was Amanda Grabenhofer, the mom in my subdivision photos. So. after years of saying that I wanted to find a family in the subdivision, a family found me. The diptych idea came to me about two weeks after I began shooting the Grabenhofers. From that day on, the project has been simple. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:45:12 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/farm-subdivision-diptych-project#118058