Jef Harris

I’ve just launched a side project of mine called “The Membership Foundation“.

This is a very personal project for me. This is my way of giving back to all the people who’ve inspired me over the years.
So far I’m doing three sites, Flickr, Zooomr, and of course deviantART.
My goal is to give away one year pro memberships. I’m giving away three memberships per month, one person per site.

With the release of the new NIN CD(s) comes the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival. You can read/hear about the announcement here. I’m sure I was one of the first million to buy the new CD online, (only $5!), and it’s quite a collection. So when I heard about the open call for videos, well, I just jumped on that!
Together with Nina McEvoy and Raquel Nevado we set out to make something powerful, something that could breath life into the music. Also, keep it simple was also the goal. So with Nina and Raquel laying naked on my lighting table with pieces of machinery between them, well, what could be more effective!
In order to keep the video as with the realm of copyrights as possible, the original footage is helped along with various film clips from 1897 - 1902.
Full video can be viewed HERE. And feel free to comment or rate it.

Do a search in Google for “photographer” under the Images section and you can be sure to find 100000s of pictures of photographers with the camera up in front of there face taking a picture of you shot.
So when it came time for me to enter this portrait institution I found myself bored and unimpressed. How could I challenge myself?
It wasn’t until LexXxy and I were planning our next photo shoot that I came up with the idea of her wearing a shirt with a print of me on the shirt.
Faster than you can say click I had the shirt made, on her, and up on all my portfolios! (No it’s not for sale! heh) My addition to the classic photographer self portrait.
Full picture can be viewed here.

Nothing is ever forgotten, ignored, or taken for granted when I shoot. You see what I see. Good or bad. Each picture holds at least one feature that’s stood out to me enough to bring the picture into my creative machine.Every shoot, every series has a piece of puzzle that revels to me one more characteristic of my complex interaction reality.
This shoot is another fine addition to my never ending testament of my love and passion. For photography, style, and amazing women.
Full set of pictures can be viewed HERE.

Normally I would talk on and on, giving each picture a story of such detail. But for this series, I wanted to bring out my personal side. So I bring to you my mystery. My love of mystery. Never will I talk about what these are pictures of. I will say this. These pictures are indeed photos. Except for the framing set up, no modifications where used in creating these effects. These are all in camera.

The city by night, the city by day. Forcing focus, forcing contrast. Bring out the basic shapes and colors of what we see everyday. Sometimes the light hits the lens just right and there’s no point in even trying to focus.

All photos can be viewed here.

Prints are also available here.