Patrick Scott Bell

To reader:

2008-11-11T18:04:00.000-08:00

I have been really busy and am upset that I have not been able to keep up with this blog as much as I'd like, but for those that do read here goes the first 5 pictures from my new series!

Ocean

2008-09-25T13:25:00.000-07:00

Behold! The New Design!

2008-09-25T12:43:00.000-07:00

This image was influenced by "Behold! The New Design!" -Chris Zabriskie
This image was influenced by "Blood for Dracula"-Chris Zabriskie

copyright 2008 Patrick Scott Bell

I've been really busy lately with my photography, and I've also have gained a new understanding for how I shoot and what I choose to shoot thanks to a recent interview with Jill Greenberg in Focus magazine. Excluding that of course I'm influenced by some photographers, I'm even more heavily influenced by painters, film makers, and I know this sounds strange but musicians. I'll often go out and shoot by myself late night listening to music, and look for pictures that explain how I feel at that moment, more or less, I try to create in a photograph visually, what I hear with music mentally.

These are heavily influenced by Chris Zabriskie's new record This Silent Bloody Night. Which I had the honor of doing the artwork for. I highly recommend this record, it's every bit as frightening as it is beautiful.

Go here to download it for free!

http://cllct.com/release/thissilentbloodynight

-Patrick Scott Bell

One Is A Chicken

2008-09-20T18:06:00.001-07:00

This is a flip-book of 8 x 10 photo-grams, they were all done at some of the lowest points of my life this past summer. I am proud to say that personally I think this is some of my most beautiful and meaningful work as of yet. I would also like to note a special dedication to John Vanderslice, his music helped me though this dark period of my life and he was also one of the only bands I listened to while making these.

All of these are done in the darkroom on a desk below enlarger,
the only photo shop was to fix some scratches and dust, and also to crop the binding out.

-Patrick Scott Bell

all photographs Copyright 2008 Patrick Scott Bell

Masks And Dancers

2008-09-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

Powerlines

2008-09-15T08:58:00.000-07:00

Copyright 2008 Patrick Scott Bell

As a child I spent a good portion of my summers traveling the states with my family. I used to always sit next to the window and fascinate at the movement and blurring of our surroundings, as we drove along highways and state roads. Watching cities and cultures, architecture and foliage changing with each mile. Yet with all the changes, every trip, power-lines stayed as power-lines. Roads changed from dirt to concrete, leaves changed colors, cities got larger, and smaller yet these lines that point in every direction of the compass, guide us, and never change. There is a certain beauty to this.

-Patrick Scott Bell

China Is Dying

2008-09-14T17:49:00.001-07:00

Portrait Of My Father

2008-09-14T16:23:00.000-07:00

Copyright 2008 Patrick Scott Bell
With a fine art focus I often get distracted thinking I have to keep dedicated to creating something “brilliant” and new. When I get out of that chaotic mind state one of the things I find fascinating is portraiture, and the composition of the human face and body. The more I take photographs of people I am reminded that the fine art focus of new ideas I can find in the structures of the human body, and through positioning and lighting I can continue to be original. This portrait of my father holds a certain longing to it, the lighting and the color also bring focus on age and remembrance of youth.

-Patrick Scott Bell