Tag: black and white

  • This Is The Way

    This is the way, step inside.
    This is the way, step inside…

    featuring Model: Lena Curland
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma

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  • Yung Love

    a new series of photographs studying the tender romance of young love

    from the series “Yung Love”
    featuring Model: Piper Meyers
    October 2015
    Stonington Boro, CT  USA
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma
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  • Song To The Siren

    On the floating, shipless oceans
    I did all my best to smile
    ‘Til your singing eyes and fingers
    Drew me loving to your isle
    And you sang, Sail to me, sail to me
    Let me enfold you,
    Here I am, here I am
    Waiting to hold you”
    Did I dream you dreamed about me?
    Were you here when I was full sail?
    Now my foolish boat is leaning
    Broken lovelorn on your rocks
    For you sing, Touch me not, touch me not,
    come back tomorrow: O my heart,
    O my heart shies from the sorrow
    Well I’m as puzzled as the newborn child
    I’m as riddled as the tide:
    Should I stand amid the breakers?
    Or should I lie with death my bride?
    Hear me sing, Swim to me, swim to me,
    Let me enfold you
    Here I am, Here I am,
    Waiting to hold you

    featuring Model: Titus Abad
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma
    22 October 2015
    Coogan Farm, Mystic, CT  USA

    This Mortal Coil was a music collective led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band’s recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom were otherwise associated with 4AD, including members of Cocteau TwinsPixies, and Dead Can Dance The project became known for its gothic, dream pop sound, and released three full albums beginning in 1984 with It’ll End in Tears.

    Song to the Siren” is a song written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was first released on Buckley’s 1970 album Starsailor.  The song has become perhaps Buckley’s most famous due to a number of artists covering the song after his death in 1975, notably This Mortal Coil.

     

  • Why People Disappear

    why people disappear
    maybe she couldn’t live like this

     

    maybe she couldn’t live at all
    will you ever with me this is she
    so she made him not want her
    how can I say more than that?
    whatever brings us together
    maybe I know as much as I ever will

    featuring Model: Kathryn O’Reilly
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma
    15 September 2015
    Mystic, CT USA

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    Home Is in Your Head is the second studio album by His Name Is Alive, originally released via 4AD in the UK on September 9, 1991
    this post features the lyrics from “Why People Disappear” track 12 of Home is in Your Head.

  • Let’s Rock!

    Let’s rock!
    I’ve got good news.
    That gum you like is going to come back in style.
    She’s my cousin.
    But doesn’t she look almost exactly like Laura Palmer?
    But… it is Laura Palmer. Are you Laura Palmer?
    I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back.
    She’s filled with secrets. Where we’re from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there’s always music in the air.

    featuring Model: Morgan Vail
    Photographs by Michelle Gemma
    11 June 2015
    In the Backyard, Mystic, CT  USA

    featuring Model: Morgan Vail, age 28 from the ongoing series “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl”—
    a timeline of photographs over 19 years with the same model
    Mystic, CT USA
    Photograph by Michelle Gemma

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    [Cooper’s dream, sitting in a chair in the red room. The Man from Another Place twitches uncontrollably with his back to Cooper. Cooper stares at a smiling Laura Palmer.]

    this post features a narrative sequence from Twin Peaks (TV Show).
    Twin Peaks is an American mystery horror drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch that premiered on April 8, 1990, on ABC. Its story follows an investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the fictional suburban town of Twin Peaks, Washington.