http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog The online portfolio of Michelle Schwartz Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:45:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the summer of 2007 on a road trip from New York to Vancouver with my friend, Gen. I had borrowed a telephoto lens and was excited to try it out. While we stopped for a few days in Jersey, I discovered the joys of using it to capture ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/08/06/photography-digital-chicago/ Toronto is a city of ravines and valleys. Often, I will be walking along a major street and notice a dirt path obscured by some bushes. I'll walk down a hill and find myself standing on a beautiful nature trail in the woods, as if five seconds earlier I wasn't ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/08/06/photography-digital-brickworks/ One day, while Stark and I were walking back to the apartment, we cut through an alley that is the dumping ground for all the discarded furniture, old bathroom fixtures, and rejected home furnishings from the many surrounding bulidings. Placed right on top of a pile of broken dresser drawers ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/05/06/photography-digital-typewriters/ Last year I found a group on Flickr that was called 365 Days. The idea was to sign up and post a self-portrait of yourself to the group every day for a year. I tried to complete the challenge, but I only made it a few months before I started ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/04/11/photography-digital-self-portraits/ After finding a disintegrating paper bag full of hundreds of old photos in my parents' basement, I felt inspired to try my hand at digital photo restoration. My grandfather had taken to creating photo albums by haphazardly stapling decades worth of photos into spiral notebooks. I resolved to undo some ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/04/01/photography-restoration-first-attempts/ Recently I received a Holga camera as a gift. I had grown so accustomed to shooting digital photos that it was almost disorienting to return to film. The photographs of sheep were on the very first roll of film I shot with the Holga. I accidentally advanced the film too ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/03/27/photography-film-diptychs/ During the summer of 2007, my friend and I took a road trip across North America. She was going to be going to the University of British Columbia in the Fall and needed to move her stuff to Canada. I volunteered to help her drive there. We left Brooklyn, drove ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/03/26/movies-road-trip-march-26-2008/ A selection of photographs I took in the Annex, Toronto. A friend was working on a proposal for a movie about the gentrification of the neighborhood. He wanted to focus on an old church that was being converted into condominiums and asked me to accompany him on a walk around ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/03/23/photography-digital-toronto-the-annex/ This is a movie I made of saints, angels, and various lawn ornamentation that can be found on lawns in Marine Park, Brooklyn. I love religious iconography and so I always found the Catholic lawn statues that litter the grass in yards all across New York City to be ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/03/23/movies-saints-in-a-bush/ A selection of photographs I've taken in Europe. I studied abroad in Florence during a semester of my Junior year at NYU. After the semester was over, I spent an additional three weeks backpacking across Eastern Europe with a friend. It was during this time in Europe that I first ... http://www.michelle.koenig-schwartz.com/blog/2008/03/23/photography-digital-europe-people/