Photo Magazine
CHRYSALIS
by Ray Potes
A photographic journey documenting nature, migration, and transmutation.
Dec 2014 – Dec 2017.
800 Pages
6.69″ x 9.61″
Black and White
Matter Cover / Text
Perfect Bind
Published by Hamburger Eyes
$44
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My book came in today! 800 pages. These will be available for sale online this Thursday. Make some room for it in your house.
ROMKO CAMERA ACCESORIES
Simple adjustable detachable camera straps. We searched the planet for chill straps and couldn’t find anything so we decided to make them.
**EAGLE WING UPGRADED**
We added spring loaded latched hooks. Now you can easily attach and detach the strap to and from the camera body. If you’re like me sometimes you don’t want a strap and you just want to put your camera in a small bag. Or, you might have other camera bodies and sometimes you want a specific strap on it for a particular assignment or mission. Now this makes it way easier to do that.
EAGLE WING MK II
3/8″ wide nylon strap with sliders and split rings. ADDED spring loaded latched hooks for easy attachment and detachment.
Approx 22″ long (from neck to camera) with 6″ adjustable extensions on each side. Adjust the length to your liking and cut off excess. Seal the ends with fire.
Recommended for light weight cameras.
Available in black.
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Photo by Michael Barolet
Meeting and trying to date girls was pretty rough pretty much the entire time I lived in San Francisco. So naturally I wanted to make a zine about it. I wanted to make a zine about all the joy and folly of being single. Some friends and I would come up with game show ideas and one of them was titled “Romance Warrior”. That seemed like a good title to steal for this zine. It ended up being a series of 3 issues.
These photos here are highlights from the second issue which was published in 2012. While it was supposed to be about “dating”, it started going the way of “nudes” and became increasingly difficult to find the narrative when editing the submissions. Which, by the way, all of a sudden got kind of out of control and the original concept got lost. Also not enough female perspective in the submissions to keep this series going. At one point I thought maybe I will just make it with my photos since it was my idea, but by that time the title already had a life of it’s own.
Anyways, it is fun to revisit these photos because I couldn’t post most of them on any social media. Let me know if you think we should bring this zine back. Now that Hamburger Eyes is all grown up, I feel like we can start playing with other projects again.
Photo by Lisa Weiss
Photo by Andrea Sonnenberg
Photo by Jesse Pollock
Photo by Ed Templeton
Photo by Alex Martinez
Photo by Michael Barolet
Photo by Ray Potes
Photo by Lisa Weiss
Photo by Dennis McGrath
Photo by Ruth Swanson
Photo by Ray Potes
If you missed it the first time around, we got more copies of Ted’s book “Foreign Stories”. This is a great compilation of his travels around the globe. You need this one.
FOREIGN STORIES
Photos by Ted Pushinsky
80 Pages
6″ x 9″
Full Color and B/W
Perfect Bind
Get it here : http://shophamburgereyes.com
They didn’t know each other at the time, but Michael Jang found a photo of Ted Pushinsky in his archives!
8 Ball and Ooga Booga putting together an awesome fair. Table spots still open, see u there?
Just finished the layout of an 800 page book, the first real fatty we have put out. It is titled “Chrysalis” and it will be turned in to the printers tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be out by some time next week! These photos are some highlights and you can read more about it, the drama, the process, etc on my blog : http://raysreports.com
NEW book by Blake ! Published by Muddguts, they are launching his book and it is the grand opening of their new space in Brooklyn this Friday. Be sure to go if you are in the area. I wanna go.
http://muddguts.com/
https://www.instagram.com/blakebyblake/
From the publisher:
“Bail Window” by Blake opens THIS FRIDAY, march 23 at muddguts!
Blake is an incredible young talent who, with “Bail Window”, will be sharing his photos with the world for the very first time. the show will also serve as a release party for Blake’s NEW BOOK “bail window” published by muddguts and designed by camilla venturini (edition of 200)
in addition, muddguts will be releasing a new t shirt to accompany the show (edition of 50)
all of the silver gelatin photographs in the show have been developed and printed by hand, by Blake in a darkroom he built in his closet. we hope you will come see them.
kind regards,
mark
“Blake’s work speak of an openness to the vagaries of the human condition, the acquired intimacy of the best type of confidence man, and a devotion to wet film photography worthy of the best of the late 20th century invasion of privacy photographers. You can read joy, arrogance, desperation and obliviousness in his subjects. Black and White nerds can get lost in the silver prints this guy has made this show. It seems he’s always on the go and always getting into something, often something questionable. This is a generous and vulnerable gift these people have given Blake and Blake has given that to us all.”
~Thatcher Keats
“The ancient creators of photography smile upon young darkroom fanatics, especially clutch shot-makers like Blake. He is keeping the dream alive.”
~Ray Potes
“The photographs that Blake has created capture moments of city living at its best and its worst. Photographing the quiet moments, the forgotten souls, humanity’s capacity for self destruction, and all points in between. He is a natural behind the lens. The way of his pictures and the way of his way are the same: strong and good and genuine.”
~Dave Schubert
Photo by Elmo Tide
In continuing with previous chapters of Hamburger Eyes history, here are some highlights from the “Mankind” series. As as I wrote before, around 2010 and 2011 we started making a ton of zines. We couldn’t publish Hamburger Eyes the way we wanted to, so let’s just publish anything and start experimenting. In 2012 we got our glue machine, it is used to make what they call “perfect” binding. We wanted to do a zine over 100 pages and feature multiple photographers much like how we did when Hamburger Eyes was offset printed.
Photo by Brian David Stevens
When my brother moved to New York, I was half joking about how he should start a new black and white photo magazine and we cook up some story about a rivalry or falling out. Kind of like how one brother started Adidas shoe company and the other brother started Puma shoe company. But secretly we work together like Coke and Pepsi probably do.
Photo by Zebulon Zang
He had a photo of an NY subway station that had a mural with a wave and “mankind” written in the tiles and I thought that would be a good title. He was into it. But he started talking about it as the east coast Hamburger Eyes and wanting it to be all about New York and I was like nah, Hamburger Eyes is world wide. Be world wide and let’s fake fight about it. I don’t think he liked that part of the idea.
Photo by Peter McCoullough
That idea never happened. But I liked the title and decided to use it for this. Mankind was 120 pages and we did 3 issues. Probably about 100 copies each. After the 3rd issue is when people were like, why don’t you just call this Hamburger Eyes. Click here to read more about that.
Photo by David Potes
Anyways, these photos here are a quick edit of some highlights. I remember I didn’t like how glossy my machine was printing the covers, so I would stink up the whole studio for days by spray painting a matte finish on them. By the second issue though, as well as a bunch of other experiments with other zines and books, I was getting the covers printed somewhere else.
Photo by Clay Kessack
Here are links to the original postings when they were released.
MANKIND No. 1
MANKIND No. 2
MANKIND No. 3
Photo by Brian Caissie
Photo by Guy Vinciguerra
Photo by Ray Potes
Photo by Piotr Pietrus
Photo by Jonnek Jonneksson
Photo by Dan Thompson
If you like posts like these, let us know if the comments.
Photo by Chris Leskovsek
More images from our latest issue. This one came out good. Click here to get it.
Photo by Joshua Zucker
Photo by Claudio Majorana
Photo by Troy Holden
Photo by Grant Lewandowski
Photo by Jud Muir
Photo by Robert A. Di Ieso
Photo by Joe Plonsker
Photo by Heather Williamson