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this is a scene from “a tale of two sisters” by ji-woon kim.
i re-created it in the spring of 2008 with my own set, actresses, camera, etc.

I shot these at Broad Art Center at UCLA for the 2008 design | media art senior yearbook. These photos were part of a collaboration with Nick Soni; he used the photos in a layout he designed. We printed it black & white on newsprint and distributed them at graduation.

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From December 2008.

Nancy Ramos had been HIV positive for 15 years when I went to photograph her in 2007. The recovered alcoholic is a mother of two; both her children are HIV negative. She lives in Whittier, California with her son, Ray.

Nancy

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"In a strange way, I’m grateful for this virus. I wouldn’t be the person I am. I can’t imagine living without it and not having learned that I can do things on my own and be an independent woman."

the song is “le parapluie” by yann tiersen with natacha regnier

camerawork + editing by me. raindancing by mo. with dedication to miss sara silkin, who made le pluie forever a romantic and lovely thing in my mind

hey, i’m throwing this party/playing this gig/showing this piece and could you make, like, a flyer for it?

2007-2009:

pretty blue presents

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2008

An overview of MSF activities in Jamaame, Somalia. Told through the photographs of MSF field coordinator Javier Roldan and the voices of the Somali staff. Due to security risks, the clinic is run almost entirely by national staff.

translations: français, somali

photos: Javier Roldan

words, direction: Javier Roldan & François Servanckx

editing: moi!

the idea for this shirt came from a tom waits song on real gone. the song itself is cool enough to inspire a shirt, but the origin of the phrase “hoist that rag” is better, i think.

i’m told it was a theater thing. the same way an audience might call for encore, “hoist that rag” or “hist the rag” or “h’ist the rag” was a demand to raise the curtain and start the show. this bit from the galaxy (full text) sets it up well:

“Half an hour before the time announced for opening the door, the sixty ticket-holders kicked at it so furiously that, after many expostulations and useless thrashings, the manager yeilded, and the audience pouring pell-mell into the theatre, filled it, and instantly began a furious stamping. There were cat-calls, whistling with two fingers, with three fingers, with four fingers, cries of disapprobation at delay, and threats of vengeance. There were successful imitations of every domestic animal. Accordingly, the manager came before the curtain and requested that cries of “hist the rag” and “physic!” and all personal controversies in the pit should cease. ”

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