Ali D. was on hand to help me with a New Era shoot yesterday, here he is letting the ladies know as we got our lighting together. We go back to the days of Underoos so it was great fun having him around.

Unknown, 2008

A belated XMas gift from Miss Julie Le, I love it! The Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S polaroid camera was made famous by my friend Yone and I’ve wanted one ever since my last visit to his studio. Big thanks Julie!!!

I brought it to a product shoot for the good people at Enki on Wednesday, I didn’t shoot still life with it but I did catch Alec, Ro & their kids afterwards.

Just got a great holiday gift from one of my favorite photographers, David Burnett. A signed copy of his recent book Soul Rebel. An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley. Soul Rebel honors Bob’s 60th anniversary and is a must have for, well, everyone. Bob Marley people! David Burnett!

David is a photojournalist with more than 4 decades of experience covering the news and tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York-based photojournalism agency now entering its 33rd year. Furthermore, in a recent issue of American Photo magazine Burnett was named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." Boom!

Click here for a look inside and more. And click here for David’s website. Many thanks Dave!!!

Photo: Me, Tokyo 10.30.09

Some great music to share from Tyler’s 2 year anniversary show that he recorded live in Tokyo in November (with me & my camera in tow). Including the new Trus’me and Amp Fiddler collaborations as well as one of Ty’s biggest tunes of 09 from Joy Orbison. Click the arrow to the right of the audio file to download, or follow the link below to SoundCloud for more shows and tracks.

MFT November 09 / Shibuya FM Tokyo by tyleraskew
01 Floating Points / K&G Beat / Planet Mu
02 Theophilus London / Enjoy The Sun / Normrex
03 Waajeed / Tetris / Beat Machine
04 Julien Dyne / Conglomorates / Wonderful Noise
05 Mr Beatnik / The 4th Day / Futuristica
06 Trus’me / Can We Pretend + Put It On Me / Fat City
07 Johnson Bros / Johnson Jump (Dokta Venom rework) / White
08 Sordid Surgeon / I’m In Luve 2-day / Rio
09 Based on Kyoto / Just After The Rain (Recloose & Frank Booker remix) / Japonica
10 Nathan Adams / Holding On (Instrumental) / Tribe
11 Motor City Drum Ensemble / Got It / Prime Numbers
12 Emanative / When On Earth (Wahchuku Mtronix Verson) / Futuristica
13 Joy Orbison / Hyph Mngo / Doldrums
14 Mayer Hawthorne / Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix) / Stones Throw

Monihan Monihan, Director & Intercommunalist Freedom Lover on location, Brooklyn, NY. 12.19.09.

Skull Mask by artist Dennis McNett on location, Dumbo, NY. 12.14.09

All I can provide for now, stay tuned…

People familiar with my work have been asking about last-minute print sales because of the holidays. Here’s a few examples I like and details for yourself or your loved ones. Most prints on this blog are available but time is running out so contact me by midnight Sunday, December 20th at the latest for express delivery.

Other sizes and prints are available, and not all are the priced the same so feel free to ask. All transactions must be handled via Paypal unless you live in NYC and are available for delivery. Thanks for everyone’s support and Happy Holidays!

Pin, 2008
From the Skaters Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Ice Cream Cones, 2008
From Multiples Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Ceiling Lights, 2008
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Unknown, 2008
From the Beach Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Nina, 2008
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Unknown, 2009
From the Airport Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Shades, 2008
From the Tokyo Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Sisters, 2008
From the Salta Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Jaewon, 2008
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

The next 2 prints are available separately or as a Dyptic.

Unknown, 2008
From the Beach Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Unknown, 2008
From the Beach Series
C-print
Paper: 13 x 19
Image: 8.67 x 13
Signed and numbered – 1/5
$395.00

Feel free to contact me at info@jasonglewis.com with any questions or concerns and thank you in advance.

A bit of this & that.

This was the final shot before my Canon 5D died, RIP my friend. And yes, I did learn to wakeboard on the same river that they shot “The Host!”

A film still featuring the designer/rapper/actor Peter Chung from an upcoming short film I shot with Brent Rollins in Incheon. Stay tuned…

Big stage, big crowd, and 16 countries competing over 2 days. Here are some outtakes. Check the site here and the comprehensive blog here.

It was exciting to see my photos reworked by Brent Rollins. R16 branding was everywhere in Korea, including the stage in these shots. Here’s some flics from the Solo BBoy Competition, these guys are beyond athletic.

Kook Jong Hoon, Creative Director at Second Hotel, my favorite design store in Seoul.

Miscellaneous portraits from the past 2 visits to S. Korea.

Jaewon, 2008

Japanese Dancer, 2009

Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples), 2009

Heo Jihyun, 2008

Brent Rollins, 2009

Jazzy Ivy, 2009

BBoys, 2009

Elvis, 2008

One-Eyed Jaewon, 2008

The Watchman, 2008

Maia Ruth Lee, 2008

Halmonis, 2008

Unknown, 2009

Woognasty, 2009

Peter Ramondetta, 2008

Unkown, 2009

For our first rendezvous Pooroni took me to a fun “school foods” dinner and afterwards I took a few shots of her in someone’s driveway. Pooroni is a freelance graphic designer and a illustrator based in Seoul, Korea. She is currently a researcher in the doctoral program at Seoul National University. Pooroni designs, draws, studies and teaches, smiles big and is adept at tackling both minor and major inclines.

Her favorite place is Kinkos.

Big thanks to Rich Lim and Keeyoon Kang for playing catch! Big thanks to Pooroni for being so fun!

I’m a big fan of Pooroni AND her work; here’s some examples I grabbed from her site.

Kitty S Exhibition at 63 Sky Art, July-Nov.2008, Seoul

Peculiar Urban Jungle. Exhibition at ‘Air Garden : Design Is Air’ at Design Olympiad, Seoul, Sep. 2008

Manoush Fall and Winter Collection 2008

Here’s a sample of some B-Boys who competed in this year’s tournament in Incheon, Korea. I had a little time to experiment and will be posting more soon. Great times once again, looking forward to 2010.

Dumbfounded recently joined us in Seoul.

I’m in Incheon, and I stopped by the R16 Wall Lords Competition to see what the Korean Graf writers had to offer, very impressive! Also, the Korean BBoys were competing to represent Korea in the UK B-Boy Championship Solo Competition. More info here.

Ewok from The 7th Letter Crew was in town with Pose (below) to put up some pieces and judge the competition. Amazing artists and really great guys. Casey was also in town to document, I’m glad we had a chance to connect again and I look forward to keeping up with their work.

Ivy MC’d the B-Boy Competition, I will reveal more on Ivy in the next 2 weeks…

Every year the B-girls get more impressive.

Brent Rollins did a great job with the logo and branding, I’m especially happy with what he did with my pics. The Invasion guys (background) came from Hong Kong to do some judging. This is definitely an International affair!

“I have a dream!” Painted by Koreans!

The winners of the competition.

Ewok in Incheon.

Pose in Incheon.

I’m really, really, really excited to be back in Korea with friends and family, I’ll be shooting R16 and continuing various projects I began last summer. Only one of which I’ve ever shared so here’s a real start.

R16 is a massive BBoy competition pitting the best teams in the world against each other. Think of it as America’s Best Dance Crew on steroids. And with taste. Part of my commission included team shots and portraits – 15 countries in attendance, 16 teams of 10 stellar athletes and 2 afternoons to do it. Here’s a sample from ‘08. Please click here for an alternate post.

I received an email from family in S. Korea announcing that we lost our good friend Emil Goh. He died of a heart attack in Seoul where he was living.

The news of Emil passing suddenly has hit me pretty hard as we became good friends in my month in Seoul last summer. Beyond being a good friend, he spent many days introducing me to the amazing art scene in Seoul as well as people like the Chillzine girls, 360 Sounds and Daily Projects amongst others. He brought me to art openings and introduced me to fantastic dinner spots throughout the city. He was easily one of the most selfless AND talented people I’ve been fortunate to meet and I feel blessed to have called him a friend.

Here’s Emil, a few of his designs and some of the people we encountered together.

Emil Goh, June 2008, Seoul, S. Korea

Emil photographed and interviewed with the Daily Projects & 360 Sounds Crew.

Emil’s “Recycle Bag” @ The Second Hotel.

An example of Emil’s lighting design. You can hang things from this light.

Emil shooting one of his zillion friends at The Zino Gallery in Seoul. Ladies Love Emil.

I first met Suitman with Emil, another fantastic artist and great personality.

Maia Ruth Lee, 1 of 3 Chillzine girls and one of my favorite people! Check her on my blog here.

Some of The Daily Projects team at The Second Hotel. Check out their blog and shop at their new online site.

Hong Sukwoo, a freelance fashion journalist. Hong runs a photo-documentary project about Seoul, Your Boyhood.

Left: Sulki Choi and Min Choi are graphic designers currently based in Seoul, Korea. They met in 2001 at Yale University where they were both students of the MFA graphic design program. Since then, they have been working together on various commissioned as well as self-initiated projects. Their website is a must see, check it here

Right: Sasa! On Artnet here.

Emil & I walking the streets of Seoul, photo by Rich Lim.

Just got this PDf from the kids at Theme, they do great work and their new issue, curated by friend and photographer Peter Sutherland is in stores now. Here’s a look at my shoot of Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Slideshow Family Players.

A few more pics from this shoot, Rachel is an extreme pleasure to work with and we shall shoot again… Many thanks to Julie Le for styling, Samantha Pleet for the purple jumper and the black shorts and my brother Rich Lim for production and location assistance.