Slate Magazine Feature

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Slate Magazine's David Rosenberg regarding my Pasadena Police Department Series.  Check out the on-line article here: 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/11/05/william_karl_valentine_an_insider_s_look_into_the_pasadena_police_force.html

George Eastman House Visit

I am in Rochester this weekend for my daughter's ice hockey tournament which allowed me a chance to visit The George Eastman House again which is always worth the trip.

Their history of photography and photographic equipment exhibitions are great and up to the moment; they now have a drone with a GoPro on display.  Dawoud Bey's The Birmingham Project is  a solid exhibition and I was really impressed with Robert Burley's The Disappearance of Darkness which documents the abandoned buildings of film manufacturing giants like Kodak, Polaroid, and Agfa.  The images are powerful, and reminded me of my visit to Bethlehem's abandoned steel mills.  At first glance they may look simple but I found them very deep.  If you can't make it to Rochester I encourage you to at least look up Burley's work or find the catalogue, especially if you ever photographed much with film.

The visit also included a very nice meeting with curatorial staff members Jamie Allen and Will Green about my work.

Me and Jamie infront of The History of Photography exhibition at GEH.