Happy Holidays…and see ya on the flip side.
Ryan Donnell Photography will be taking a much-needed hiatus to visit family in Madison and recharge batteries starting Wed., Dec 21st to Wed., Dec. 28th. Here’s to hoping everyone has a fantastic holiday season!
Behind the Curtain Nominated for Blurb 2011 People’s Choice Award
My recently self-published book, Behind the Curtain: A Look at Philadelphia’s Unique Polling Places, has been nominated for the 2011 Blurb People’s Choice Awards, which is part of the self-publishing company’s wider Photography Book Now competition. Yes, my friends, that means you have a chance to vote for my book. Of course, you’ll have to [...]
New Project in Progress – The Share Project
In the coming weeks I’ll be documenting items from the farm share that my wife and I subscribe to during the spring, summer and fall. I’ll be photographing the raw ingredients and then turning them into a finished dish, hopefully, a simple and quick preparation. This project will be as much a way to stretch [...]
Happy Election Day, Philly. Buy my book.
Behind the Curtain by Ryan Donnell Hey everyone, don’t forget it’s election day today in Philadelphia. Get out and vote…and maybe think about buying one of my great new books!
From the Archive: Italy 2003
A magazine sent out a recent request for images of a specific town in Italy. I haven’t been to Italy since I went to my old journalism school friends Matt and Callie’s wedding in 2003. So this stock search was a great chance to root through my old film, reminisce and then get completely manic [...]
Keeping Good Company at Bransch
The über-awesome agency Bransch has highlighted my Behind the Curtain polling project as “inspiration” for it’s readers. I’m quite honored to be keeping company with the likes of Olaf Blecker and the rest of the talented photographers and illustrators represented by the Hamburg-based agency. Thanks Bransch. And Dear Readers, please go check out their artists. [...]
Behind the Curtain touted by Wired.com
My Behind the Curtain project is getting a little more exposure (oh, so punny.) today. Wired.com‘s “Raw File” blog, which covers interesting photographic projects/subjects, gave a real nice shout out to the project and to my friend Matt Ratajczak’s excellent interview with me. I’d like to thank Pete Brook for making that happen and, BTW, [...]
Interview with Matt Ratajczak on Eat the Darkness
My friend and talented photographer Matt Ratajczak just posted a Q&A with me on his must-follow blog, Eat the Darkness. The interview was on the topic of my “Behind the Curtain” polling place project. Matt asked some great questions about the project’s process and also motivating to work on personal projects. Be fore-warned though…apparently I [...]
Spain & Portugal
So the wife and I just returned from two wonderful weeks touring Spain and Portugal. I’m not sure that I would classify it as a relaxing vacation (we put close to 1500 miles on our little rental car), but it was a great trip and we saw A LOT of the Iberian Peninsula: Galicia, the [...]
New Images added to the Philadelphia Polling Place Project
So, I got my first taste of the power of the Internet the other day. My little project about unique polling stations in Philadelphia received a bit of attention on Tuesday after being touted by a few local (and national) bloggers. A big Thank You has to go out to Catherine Lucey (who, in full-disclosure, [...]
American Photo 26 Winners Up
Just a quick note that the Selected and Chosen winners of this year’s American Photo 26 annual have been posted. I’m honored to be included for the 2nd year in a row. You can see my image from the Louvre in Paris in the Chosen gallery: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/APss/ If you’d like to see more images from [...]
"Behind the Curtain" Sneak Peek
Finally putting the finishing touches on a new book of prints from current project “Behind the Curtain: A Look at Philadelphia’s Unique Polling Stations”. As with all my portfolio books, I’d be happy to send it along to any AD, CD, photo editors or art buyers that are interested in seeing it. (For the geeks [...]
From the Archive: Obama’s Inauguration
I’ve been pokin’ ’round the old archive lately while re-editing my portfolios and I’ve been running across a lot of images that I’ve forgotten about. Here are a couple from last year’s presidential inauguration. I had hopes of testing some new equipment for making cinematic-style panoramas. But maybe an event during which I had to [...]
Altpick Award Win
I’m sure all you dedicated readers of NFTHO (yeah, I’m speaking to you mom.) remember my mention of a small project I completed last year about one of the last roller rinks in Philadelphia, the Elmwood Roller Rink in Southwest Philly. I just learned yesterday that this little project was awarded an honorable mention in [...]
From the Archive: Ireland.
In an effort to expand my presence in this whole Internet thing (I hear it’s going to be big.), I wanted to start exploring the capabilities to share images from my archive on this blog using Photoshelters’ Way-Too-Powerful-for-Ryan-to-Understand marketing tools. So here is a small slideshow of images from my Ireland visit last year, with [...]
The Talented Mr. Donnell
So my talented younger brother, Colin, was in town last month. He was touring with the Broadway show Wicked. (He was playing Fiyero for all those who actually know the show.) It was great having him in town, since we haven’t lived in the same town for any length of time since I was in [...]
Philly Polling Place Project Photos Posted…
Went out with my lovely wife while she did some reporting and made a few new images for my Polling Place Project. Unfortunately, my Hasselblad is on bed rest right now after a frightful accident and it couldn’t come off the bench in time for this election cycle, so I’m testing a new digital technique [...]
A Bit o' Buzzzzzzz
So I’m knee chin deep in production right now for a ad shoot, but I’ve got a little bit of news about a web launch. And on top of that, I’ve received a couple of nice shout-outs this week. First, I’ve launched a dedicated site for my ongoing Philadelphia Polling Place Project. It was put [...]
Polling Place Project – Update
I got a chance to get out and work on my (alliteratively titled) Philadelphia Polling Place Project. I’ll be trying to get a comprehensive edit of the project done catch as catch can between paid work, but for now, here are a couple of my favorites from the Philadelphia DA’s election last week. Bakery. Far [...]
New Work & Happy Holiday.
Just a quick end-of-the-day note (though I’m sure most peeps are already heading “Down the Shore”) to let everyone know that I’ve uploaded a few new images to the New Work section of my website. This update includes some images from my new, and on-going, project on roller skating here in Philly. Enjoy the holiday!
Project Update….Rollerskatin'
Just back from a week in sunny Virginia, hangin’ with my homeys Rachael outta NYC and photographer/assistant extraordinaire Ryan Collerd. Since I can’t show the awesome photos we produced down in VA, yet, I thought I’d post a few more images from my rollerskating project. These are scans from some rolls that were processed just [...]
Sneak Peak
8-year-old twins birthday party. Elmwood Roller Rink. Philadelphia. This is the first shoot from a new personal project that I’ve started here in Philadelphia. I first stumbled upon this place while was working on my Behind the Curtain project on weird polling places in Philly. It’s a weird polling place. I have no idea what [...]
Mystery Rolls….
One thing that’s missing from digital photography: Mystery Rolls. These are the forgotten rolls. The half-shot rolls, re-wound midway through because you needed a different ISO. Or maybe a personal roll you shot of your dog that you’d stick on your desk and promise yourself to take to the lab later, after your nap. For [...]