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Archive for January, 2010
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it never rains in southern california

…but it pours, man, it pours. (What Albert Hammond didn’t mention, though, is that when it pours it’s gorgeous.)

pehrspace, not passion pit

I was supposed to shoot Passion Pit for Prefix one night, ages ago, but when I got there I was on the list but without a photo pass, so I left and went to see Audacity and Woah Hunx at Pehrspace instead. Judging by the looks of the Passion Pit audience lined up outside, I [...]

charon + linda + rachel = yes

Once upon last summer I did a shoot with Charon Nogues styling and Linda Immediato doing make up. They’re both wonderful.

back to the ukrainian church

Elysian Park, Los Angeles: go up the street, into the park, along the path with the stadium view (follow the tagging), through the woods, under the birds that throw twigs, and there you are.

with a camera phone on sunset boulevard
with a camera phone on the new york metro

I’m an Essex girl in New York.

with a camera phone on bundy drive
there are faces on my table

The book on the left’s a Polish photography book I got in Krakow. The book on the right’s an American collection of old photobooth pictures that I picked up in a Long Beach record shop while the Black Lips were doing an in-store. I’d had the photobooth book for ages and looked through it a [...]

sad, sad, sad

Oh, jeez. Jay Reatard is dead. Sad. I get freaked out when someone I’ve taken pictures of has to go and die. And I get doubly freaked out when it’s someone who provided the soundtrack to so many of my late-night all-alone bedroom dance parties and Sunday cookie-baking freak outs, which are the only times [...]

e.level, resurrected

God, this is an old picture. It’s still one of my favourites, though. It’s a Boss Sample Delay pedal from the mid ’80s, I believe, and I have nail varnish to match it. I just resurrected it and put it for sale as half of a set.

lil’ chik

Schwinn Lil’ Chik in Los Feliz in the early hours of January first.

manicure. pedicure. every day.

Almost, anyway. A little bit OCD. Perfect nails forever. [See also: Manicure, 8x10]

mayahuel, manhattan

I love cocktails. I love New York. I love Mayahuel. (I had a Red Ant River Swizzle—mezcal swizzled with sugar cane, lime and absinthe—and a Watermelon Sugar—fresh watermelon, blanco tequila, joven mezcal with sugar cane, citrus & spicy salted rim. And, I got to hang out with Kathryn.)

when photographers date djs

Remember vinyl? That fragile, inconvenient, difficult-to-travel-with way of buying music? (Remember buying music?) Well, boys who play records for drunk people in dark bars do! And, dear reader, I used to go out with one of those boys. The free drinks were always fun, but I’d sometimes get bored and just take pictures of his [...]

first and last

The first show of the year for me was the last of their career for Mika Miko. [January 1st at The Smell. More shots on Brooklyn Vegan.]


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Rachel started taking pictures as a kid in deepest Essex. Now she shoots in Los Angeles and has a funny half-American accent.

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