SCOTT GORDON BLEICHER PHO(BLOG)GRAPHY

I’ve spent the last few days putting a new photography portfolio together, the gastronomically-themed Perishables. The goal was to incorporate plated food shots, establishment interiors and atmospheres, chef and restauranteur portraits, and a hint of travel/destination photography under the overarching banner of a food lifestyle collection.

Culinary culture, I like to call it.

You can preview Perishables in all of its low res glory here.

The front cover and a few select pages can be seen below.

Bon appétit.

I recently hopped a train to Red Bank, NJ to photograph chef Adam Sobel- creator, owner, and…..driver of The Cinnamon Snail.

The Cinnamon Snail is the country’s first 100% vegan food truck, currently servicing Hoboken, NJ and soon to be making the rounds in Brooklyn.

An in-depth interview with Adam (and a few of the images below) can be found here, on Kitchen La Bohème.

A little while back I had the distinct pleasure of working on a two-day shoot with friend and Grammy-nominated organist Cameron Carpenter. The focus of the shoot was to create a number of striking image options for the covers of his soon-to-be-released double album, Cameron Live!




The CD portion of the set contains a live concert recording from The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City, while the accompanying DVD sees Cameron filmed in high definition while performing in studio, and takes you on tour with concert footage from Berlin and New York.

Cameron Live! is now available for preorder over at Concord Music Group, where you can listen to samples and read a suitably in-depth and impassioned preview of the album that ends with these thoughts on the dual covers:

For the DVD, the cover is suitably outrageous: Noel Coward meets Janis Joplin in her backstage dressing room (actually, Carpenter photographed in his New York East Village apartment). Flip the album over to find the other front, in stark contrast: Carpenter in jeans, silver boots and a t-shirt that proclaims MUSIC IS IT, reminding the listener that despite his attention to detail on the outside, it’s what they see and hear on the discs inside that matters.

Shirley & Co. over at Eubiq NY have updated their site with some new looks from their Spring 2010 collection that I recently shot for them. Follow this link to see what you should be wearing in the city come springtime (if you’re a contemporary young urban male, that is).

Next month I’ll be showing a select number of photographs from my Tokyo Juxtaposed series at Supercore in Brooklyn.

The opening event is set for Thursday, February 11th at 7pm and the show will run through the middle of March.

There will be drinks (of the caffeinated and the alcoholic variety), there will be live music of one kind or another (to be announced soon), there will be professional networking, there will be Japanese tapas,

and hopefully, there will be you.

See you there.

(Presented Jackanory style.)

Rise and shine.

Make coffee.

Take a shower.

Coffee’s done.

Gear check.

Breakfast #1.

Check for updates here.

And here.

Travel light.

Out the door, down the hall.

Buenos dias.

Bushwick foyer.

The neighborhood.

A one-eyed beetle.

She’s seen better days.

The station.

The turnstile.

The train.

Mind the gap.

Morning commute.

Morning chaos.

Topside.

Morning paper.

Cafe Fresco Latina.

Pastry options, but no egg sandwiches.

Coffee #2.

Egg sandwich attempt #2.

Breakfast menu.

Egg sandwich success/breakfast #2.

Hail a cab.

This one.

Buckle up.

Back seat driver.

Arrival.

(Public Service Announcement)

Waiting in the lobby.

Which way?

This way.

Down the hall.

Around the corner.

Final destination.

Some assembly required.

The goods.

The set.

The looks.

The talent.

The shoot.

For the past year, I’ve been shooting residential interiors for Airbed & Breakfast, a web-based service and marketplace ‘allowing anyone from private residents to commercial properties to rent out their extra space.’

Although still a relatively new service, as of this writing Airbed & Breakfast already boasts listings in 108 countries and 2,174 cities, has been featured in The New York Times and Time Magazine and on CNN, amongst many others.

I cover the New York City market.

(Mental note: Get them to start sending me to those 2,173 other cities.)

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Though it hardly sounds like a glamorous photo gig, the steady work has allowed me the unique opportunity to step into the homes of an interesting cross section of New Yorkers, from Brooklyn hipsters to Wall Street investment bankers to Barry Manilow’s drummer, and photograph….

their bedrooms.

Listings on the AirBnB online marketplace include ‘vacation rentals, private rooms, entire apartments, bed and breakfasts, boutique hotels, castles, treehouses, and many other traditional and non-traditional accommodations.’

While the bulk of my photo assignments have fallen into the traditional accommodations camp, a few of my favorite spaces/shots can be seen below.

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So the next time you find yourself on the road, be it for a business meeting or an escape from business, try staying with the locals instead of the Hiltons.

You just might save some money and make some friends along the way.

Q. What could possibly make for a better Christmas gift than a copy of Tokyo Juxtaposed?

A. Fruitcake.

Oh. Right.
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Tokyo Juxtaposed, my self-published ‘zine chock full of aesthetic and cultural photographic juxtapositions from my early summer jaunt to the land of the rising sun, is still available for purchase over at MagCloud.

And it’s on sale!

While a copy of Tokyo Juxtaposed certainly makes for a great Christmas gift, it DOES NOT make for a great stocking stuffer. (Please, gently place the magazine into the stocking, preferably with a cardboard backing in a plastic sleeve, taking care not to bend its edges or crease its pages.)

And if you live somewhere in the six boroughs (I’m looking at you, New Jersey), I could meet you (along the L) and sign your copy for you, that way it would, you know, have my signature on it.

Or maybe you’d buy one if I told you that the other THIRTY ONE pages that you CANNOT preview at MagCloud were filled with hentai.

But they’re not, so, tough luck.

Pervert.

I will be attending a concert this Saturday afternoon by ‘The Maverick Organist,’ Cameron Carpenter. I worked on a shoot with Cameron earlier this summer and posted about it here.

Since then, Cameron and I have completed two more photo shoots together, both with the intention of providing images for his upcoming double CD/DVD album releasing in the spring of next year.

I’ll have a few selections to show from these most recent shoots in a blog update in the not-too-distant future, as well as an update to the Musicians portfolio on my website.

Saturday’s performance will mark Cameron’s first at The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Times Square and will be recorded and released as the live CD portion of the aforementioned double album. All proceeds from the concert will go to benefit Cameron’s non profit Models Of Excellence musical heritage project.

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Below is a look at the concert program, using a portrait of Cameron from our summer shoot as the main image. A full size PDF of the program can be downloaded at his website here, and tickets are still available here.

Consider it a unique opportunity to see a once in a generation performer whom has been called ‘a talent of Mozartean proportions,’ and leave your ecclesiastical-pipe-organ-funeral-dirge preconceptions at the door.

Below is a shot from an impromptu, ‘in-house’ portrait session that I did earlier this summer for Rebel Ink magazine’s launch party at the Coney Island Freak Bar. It was a humid summer night filled with friends, beer, tatts, more tatts, and, um, some guy hammering nails into his nose and a girl breathing fire and swallowing swords.

Thanks to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow for an always entertaining and nausea-inducing performance and an extra special thanks to Dan Howell and Rebel Ink magazine.

Loud Objects, an experimental noise and chiptune trio, have released an album called Cory Arcangels on Free Music Archive and have used a shot from a session that I did with them for the album cover.

You can listen to the album for free here.

The original image and an alternate look can be seen in the Musicians gallery on my website, here.

Oh and maybe they should be considered a four piece group if you count the overhead projector. See one of their organic, spontaneous live shows and you’ll understand.

I’ve recently self-published a magazine through MagCloud entitled Tokyo Juxtaposed. The issue contains juxtapositions of photographs that I took while aimlessly wandering around Tokyo (dérive, anyone?), many of which can be seen in the Travel portfolio on my website.

I’ve included a few extra diptychs in the magazine in order to ensure its limited edition collectibility. In theory.

Click on the cover below for a preview of Tokyo Juxtaposed and for information on how to purchase a copy.

You know you want one…