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Molly Des Jardin's photostream
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Simply put, I love to take pictures of interesting or weird things to save them for later. Along the way I started to love taking pictures for their own sake too. And now I can't stop taking them. I have caught photographer disease and it turns out there's no cure.
I consider my body of work to be one gigantic self-portrait. Thinking about it, I consider others' to be the same.
Aside from photography, I am an artist in traditional get-your-hands-dirty media, and I'm currently a PhD student in Japanese literature (specifically Meiji book history - how's that for arcane) and also getting an MSI in Library & Information Services.
I'm in residence in Michigan finishing up these degrees and live in Ypsilanti, near Ann Arbor. I'm originally from Rochester, NY. Rochester makes Michigan seem sunny and balmy; is my work imbued with dark, rusty subjects and deliberate underexposure because of that twilight landscape that chills to the bone year-round? Who knows. Honestly my favorite subject is trees, but I have to take photos of what's in front of me.
My photos reflect my recent rootlessness - they are from all over! I know my work in Japan overwhelms what I've taken in the US, so here's a quick rundown of my time there:
* 2009-2010: Arakawa-ku, Tokyo; Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellow affiliated with Nihon Daigaku.
* 2007-2008: Kotobuki-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama; Inter-University Center for Japanese Langauge Studies.
* 2003-2004: Shime-machi, Fukuoka; JET Programme ALT at Sue Prefectural High School.
Contact:
I have a professional web site, which includes a photo blog that I should certainly be more on top of. In addition I finally registered www.non-euclidean.com which I am dubbing non-euclidean atelier (how fancy. how I have been in Japan too long). Nothing exciting up yet, but at least it has its own welcome picture and no longer redirects straight here!
By the way, that professional site - it's www.mollydesjardin.com. I have information about my career trajectory, background, dissertation (abstract and mapped out), and increasing number of blog posts.
If you want to talk about photography, art, commissions, prints, academics, or just whatever, get at me: mdesjardin@gmail.com.
NEWS:
I finally made good on my promise to get all them 2009 photos up even if it killed me. They're up. Now I have to move on to either getting the 2010s online (starting in January 2011, that's reasonable right? sigh), AND/OR making a best-of set for 2009. We'll see. Please pressure me a little if you'd like to. I kind of need it.
I used to have a more complete Japanese section but it's hopelessly out of date. Here's what remains.
好きな場面は、このようなものやことです。山、返照、モノの形、木、木の葉と太陽の光、さびていた波形板金、団地、商店街、民家、古い建物、廃墟、電車、隅田川、インフラ、変なモノ、明暗。
いろいろな人と友達になりたいです。よろしくお願いします!
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Contacts (77)
Groups (50)
- Library Stamps 155 photos, 14 members
- Allegany County, NY 170 photos, 13 members
- vegan with a vengeance (and friends) 7,531 photos, 1,536 members
- Maps in Signs & Graphics 1,470 photos, 297 members
- STORY TELLING Stray Cats photos (HIGH Quality Photo Only) 1,581 photos, 231 members
- Bleak 15,173 photos, 918 members
- Vegetarian Japan 416 photos, 131 members
- Jizo (地蔵) 219 photos, 39 members
- Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty 223,954 photos, 8,941 members
- **osanpo camera / お散歩カメラ 467,215 photos, 12,382 members
- Rural Japan (inaka) | 日本の田舎 4,777 photos, 220 members
- Mountains Anywhere 170,782 photos, 16,714 members
- Landscapes of the World 142,311 photos, 6,966 members
- Water... Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks 651,169 photos, 39,961 members
- Japan Through the Eyes of Others 119,215 photos, 3,664 members
- Rockeries - comment or invite 1 1,143 photos, 166 members
- By the Window (please read rules!) 2,562 photos, 371 members
- Public Space and its Discontents 121,415 photos, 11,322 members
- RUSTY and CRUSTY 275,109 photos, 26,025 members
- Beautiful is Boring 96,924 photos, 4,641 members
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Banality 10,723 photos, 383 members
- No-Flash Night Shots 267,657 photos, 23,267 members
- Boards of Canada 3,668 photos, 515 members
- Ruins 67,687 photos, 5,629 members
- Urban Decay 295,882 photos, 27,406 members
- Ann Arbor 20,329 photos, 1,234 members
- Secret Life of Plants 96,916 photos, 10,805 members
- Wooden Soul 236 photos, 84 members
- Tree appreciation 14,405 photos, 874 members
- The Silent Grief of Trees 709 photos, 129 members
- strange, weird, odd and unique trees 2,407 photos, 541 members
- Green Leaves 8,853 photos, 1,699 members
- Blue Ridge Parkway 7,401 photos, 688 members
- Tree Branches 16,118 photos, 1,648 members
- Ghetto Palms 56 photos, 50 members
- Rural Decay 137,851 photos, 23,847 members
- Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) 198 photos, 12,166 members
- Abandoned 520,792 photos, 35,672 members
- pavement 59,836 photos, 11,857 members
- JET Program 1,686 photos, 122 members
- Nikon Digital SLRs 167,515 photos, 4,047 members
- Japanese buildings-日本の建物- 12,080 photos, 525 members
- Japan Mountains, 日本の山 7,218 photos, 1,030 members
- Mount Fuji, Japan 4,430 photos, 928 members
- Japanese Landscape - 日本の風景写真 - 85,491 photos, 4,736 members
- Japan Images 347,462 photos, 9,244 members
- kofun 古墳 72 photos, 17 members
- Graves of Asians 513 photos, 32 members
- Daiso 782 photos, 208 members
- Ghost Signs 18,357 photos, 1,855 members
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- Name:
- non-euclidean photography
- Joined:
- May 2005
- Hometown:
- Rochester, NY
- Currently:
- Ypsilanti, MI, United States
- I am:
- Female
- Occupation:
- wading through my giant photo backlog
- Website:
- molly des jardin











