Snaps from the last few weeks…

Been here, been there. Here are a few landscapes from the past few weeks…



Jet skis
Coney Island, NY








Reeds
Newbury, MA








Traditional New England home.
Newbury, MA









Playa del Carmen, Mexico







Playa del Carmen, Mexico








Sunrise
Tulum, Mexico






Land flooded by beavers
Daleville, PA









View from the Airtrain to JFK Airport
Queens, NY








Basketball Court
Bed Stuy Brooklyn, NY

Now I at least have a semi excuse...

"The truth is no portrait of substance has people smiling. Look at the history of painting, Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Velasquez, Sargent, Vermeer, DaVinci, etc., the subjects gaze to the viewer is neutral at best, neither inviting nor forbidding. It is there for the viewer to see and feel. Smiling is like much of American popular culture, superficial and misleading. It is part of our vernacular, but it should be expunged in photographs."

– Rodney Smith

The End Starts Here via, wizwow

by A PHOTO EDITOR on NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Taryn Simon...

I like what she's talking about, I like the way it was shot. Not much else I can say.


Taryn Simon: Shot True on Nowness.com.

JENREN.COM

Thank you to Jenny Barnes for featuring my work on her site jenren.com

Ink Butter...

Homies featured on tattoo culture blog Ink Butter.

Koi Koi Koi

Homies featured on creative culture blog Koi Koi Koi.

Russian Esquire...

Russian Esquire did a feature on my Homies series. Navigation is a bit weird so it might be hard to find, but they have some great work up on there.

Berlin Culture Blog Knicken....

Art and culture blog from Berlin Knicken did a little feature on Homies.

Exposure 2011 Competition

Vote for my Homies project! click HERE

Exposure 2011 | Adam Amengual

Lost At E Minor...

Thank you to the art and culture blog Lost At E Minor for posting about the Homies project...

Milk Gallery Underground show in NYC opening 11.17.11

I have two prints from the Homies series in a group show at the Milk gallery. I will not be in town for the opening reception but I'm sure it will be a good time. Two friends, Ryan Bailey and Mark Hartman, have work in the show. More info on the flyers below.

Time.com's LightBox

My feature on Time.com's LightBox just posted in the In Progress section. Pretty excited about it!

500 photographers

Just got the news that I have been featured on  Pieter Wisse's blog 500 Photographers. It is a pretty amazing list and I am very flattered to be included. This blog was included in Life's best photo blogs of 2011 along with Pete Brook's blog Prison Photography and Jörg M. Colberg's blog Conscientious that I was featured on previously.


Thank you Pieter!

Peanut Butter Thoughts...

The illustration and photography inspiration site Peanut Butter Thoughts recently gave me a little love...

This is the What becoming a printed mag...

I have mentioned in past posts about Kate Osba's blog This is the What. She has featured me and my work twice now and I can't thank her enough for her support of my work. She has just started a Kickstarter project to make a printed version of her blog. Donate what you can! Check it out here.

Snaps from the past two months...

Funny how much I edit down for a post when I just let a card fill up for a bit.


These first few are from my road trip back east with my dad and Shug. Didn't shoot nearly as much as I did on the move to LA back in 2009 but we didn't stop as much either.


Shug on watch in Nevada




My Father, Angelo Amengual, outside Moab, UT




Passed through Arches again so my dad could see it. Still one of my favorite places I've ever been to. Need to plan a serious camping/backpacking trip in UT someday.

North Window Arch
Arches National Park, UT







Somewhere in IL








Niagara Falls, NY







Me, Dad, and Shug
Niagara Falls, NY







Did a gig in Coney Island right when I got back. It is the last season before they strip the place of all its soul.

Coney Island, NY






Ryan Bailey great dude, good assistant and rad photographer. Check out his work, especially his projects section

Ryan Bailey on the Coney Island Pier








Also found where all the old school NYC garbage cans go to die.

Coney Island, NY







Made it up to MA a few times already, mostly to deal with some stuff in storage but we did make it to the beach.

Shug enjoying the sun.
Salisbury Beach Reservation, MA








Man in a cold ocean.
Salisbury Beach Reservation, MA







Some snaps from a recent travel gig.

Hotel room in Ft. Lauderdale, FL








Condos in Ft. Lauderdale, FL










Out to sea…

Website update

Been a crazy month being back here in NYC. I'll hopefully get to a snaps update this week but today I just finished a website update. I still want to shoot a bit more on the Day Laborers project but I thought I would post my favorite twelve portraits that I have taken so far. I also added a Commercial section, here you can see selected pages from the annual report I recently worked on for NDLON and the informational brochure for The Iraqi Ministry of Energy that was completed last year. I have also added quotes from a few of the subjects of my Homies series, which I think adds another layer to that project.


Here is a mini gallery of the Day Laborers:

En Foco Fellowship

I was also recently awarded with an honorable mention at this year's En Foco fellowship. You can see more info on my artist page on their site and about the show that I will be apart of next year here in NYC.

Special thanks to juror Michael Mazzeo for selecting my work.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Just got an email day before yesterday notifying me that I will have a print in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Texas. The print is of Adrien Caceres from the Homies series.


Adrien Caceres 2011

Michael Mazzeo Gallery Blog

Thank you to the Michael Mazzeo for recently mentioning me and the Homies series on his blog.