Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots. |
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| Santa & Reindeer at The Grove in LA
Figure and Ground by Richard Renaldi is an amazing photo book [and only $30 on Amazon]. A lot of the photos are on Renaldi's website, but they look much better in the book. Renaldi uses an 8x10 inch camera. In digital terms that would be, like, 500 megapixels. In person, the blown-up prints are astounding. Yossi Milo in NYC is exhibiting Renaldi's portraits from Jan 25th to March 3rd next year. Alec Soth on blogging & artistic reputation: Blogging is probably bad for one’s reputation in the art world. The art world is built on exclusivity. Blogs are built on availability. Most art stars don’t even have websites for fear of appearing pedestrian. But photography, for me, is a pedestrian art. It is democratic and accessible. So I participate in the blogosphere knowing full well that it probably hurts my art-world reputation. [link] Turistas Brazilians don't like foreigners criticizing their country [like Americans but not nearly as bad]. I can imagine the shit storm that's gonna brew over the movie Turistas, a soon to be released horror flick that follows a group of sexy Americans who travel to Brazil only to get robbed, beaten, drugged and wind up in some crazy doctor's lair who then harvests the organs of the hott tourist chicks. I'm shocked (!) that anyone would be offended to have their homeland thusly portrayed. Folks aren't too pleased about the stealth promo site paradisebrazil.com which purports to be a backpacker guide to Brazil. The "webcam" shows a dead body on the beach while the words "invasive surgery" "bloody harvest" flash in the background. Interestingly, organ theft is a persistent urban legend in Latin America. Such is the problem that the US State Department even has a page debunking the Baby Parts Myth. The rumor is especially persistent in Guatemala which has a large number of foreign adoptions. Tragically, in 2000 a group of Japanese tourists were attacked in the picturesque mountain village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan [a place I visited in 1995 and fell in love with]. One tourist and the group's bus driver were killed. |
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 | Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures. |