CHORe

CHORe

Digital photograph

2018

I just returned from a week in Mexico City. First time in Mexico, first time vacationing over the holidays. This photo was shot in Chinatown, a small, crumbling neighborhood on the edge of the historic city center.
Mexico City is very photogenic, I'll sure I'll be posting more photos from my trip soon.

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

digital collage, 2018

Blue Mouth

Blue Mouth

digital photo, 2018

Shot in Bridgeport, Chicago last week.

Instant Film Collages

Untitled Instant Film Collages

2012

A few years ago I taught a class in alternative photographic processes. As part of the class we worked on instant film lifts and transfers. Instant film can be unpredictable, with exposure errors, incomplete developing, and other errors which make the print unusable being pretty common. My students were tossing their failed prints, but I started gathering them up, thinking they might be good for collage. I made several, then moved on to other things. Here are several of the better ones.

Natural Emotions

Natural Emotions

iPhoneography, 2017

Pig and Santa

Pig and Santa

digital photograph

2018

I had an errand to run in downtown Chicago yesterday, so grabbed my camera and spent a couple hours wandering around and shooting photos in the Bridgeport neighborhood afterwards. Bridgeport is a pretty interesting neighborhood, and every time I'm in it I make a mental note to go shoot there.  Got a few good ones, including the one above. Some more will show up here sooner or later.

Orange Circle

Orange Circle

collage on found photograph

2017

Construction Barrier

Construction Barrier

Quebec City, 2018

Radioactive

Radioactive

digital collage, 2018

Calder

Calder

iPhoneography, 2017

Hot Dog!

Hot Dog!

collage on paper, 2017

We're All Light

We're All Light

iPhoneography

2018

Apps used: Snapseed, Procreate, Fragment, Defekt

digital collage

untitled

digital collage

2016

A digital collage I made a couple of years ago but never posted anywhere, probably because I couldn't think of a title. 

If anyone reading this has a title suggestion, let me know. If I use it, I'll send you a print of this piece.

Magazines

Magazines

Lima Peru

digital photograph

Wastebasket Man

Wastebasket Man

collage on paper

2018

Red Sky

Red Sky

Toronto, 2018

Playing around in Photoshop with a photo I shot last summer in Toronto.

DC

DC

iPhoneography, 2018

URP!

URP!

digital collage, 2018

eye safety

eye safety

collage on paper

2016

Made a couple of years ago, just getting around to posting it now.

untitled

untitled

iPhoneography, 2018

Apps used: Snapseed, Procreate, Inkwork, Phonto

art objects

I started a collage series titled art objects a couple of years ago, but only got around to making three pieces. Might return to it some day, probably won't. Here's the three I finished.

The Night is large

The Night is Large

Photographs by Tyler Hewitt

Moraine Valley Community College

Fine and Performing Arts Center Atrium

Nov. 6-Dec. 15, 2018

Here's a photo of students completely ignoring my freshly hung exhibit while on their phones.

Looking at Art

Looking at Art

iPhoneography, digital collage, 2018

Apps used: Snapseed, Procreate, and HyperDroste, an app designed to make gifs inspired by the Droste effect. The art on the wall was made with HyperDroste.

Missed You.

Missed You

digital photograph

Benediction

Benediction

digital collage, 2018

The first digital collage I've made in a couple years.

Trumpet Man

Trumpet Man

collage on paper, 2018

Part of the Modern Man series

Diet and Exercise

Diet and Exercise

collage on paper, 2016

Diet and Exercise

collage on paper, 2018

Family Photo

Family Photo

digital collage with scanoraphy, 2016

The Boutique

The Boutique

Bronzeville, Chicago

digital photograph, 2018

Big Smiles!

Big Smiles!

iPhoneography, 2018

apps used: Snapseed, Procreate, Inkwork

Op

Op

Collage on paper, 2017

Collage made with small pieces of a scrap cyanotype print.

Collage Revisited

untitled

collage, iPhoneography

2012-2018

untitled

collage

2012

Recently, I've been playing some with photographing collages and other older work with my iPad and reworking them using various apps. This collage, made in 2012, was going to be part of a larger series of faces covered by amorphous shapes cut from wallpaper. While I liked the results, I really didn't know why I was making these back then (and still don't), so I made two of them and moved on to other things. I like the reworked version quite a bit, although I still don't have any thoughts about content. Not all art has to mean something, does it?

Western Culture

Western Culture

digital collage, 2015

I made this one a couple of years ago at a time when I was making a lot of digital collage work. I kind of drifted away from digital collage, and from hand made collage as well, but lately have been making both again. The background image is a photo I shot in Richmond, British Colombia a few years ago, manipulated using scanography.

Nail Technology Course

Nail Technology Course

Digital Photograph

2018

Rimose Evening

Rimose Evening

collage, iPhoneography

2018

Apps used: Snapseed, Procreate, Fragment

This is a collage on a postcard a made a few years ago, 

rephotographed with my iPad and hand colored using various apps.

Truck Man

Truck Man

collage on paper, 2017

Part of the Modern Man series

Galerie Voltaire

Galerie Voltaire

digital photograph, 2018

Shot in Toronto this past summer.

Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

iPhoneography, collage

2018

Smoke Break

Smoke Break

digital photo

2018

Him

Him

iPhoneography, 2018

apps used: Snapseed, Fragment, Procreate

Expert Tailoring

Expert Tailoring

digital photograph, 2018

Bay and Wellington

Two photos made at the corner of Bay and Wellington Streets in downtown Toronto when I was visiting there last month.