Photo Narrative
“Seventeen Seconds”
featuring Model: Titus Abad
all Photographs by Michelle Gemma
Eolia Mansion at Harkness Park, Waterford, CT USA
Photo Captions from the album “Seventeen Seconds” by the Cure (1980) Fiction Records
I picked up this album in 1992 at the Heathrow Airport in London on a trip with my friend Matthew Hannan, on our way back from a visit to Megen Cox in Scotland.
An important trip as I brought a camera along and shot my very first roll of film, almost completely damaged by the airport x-ray. But the remaining frames, developed with assistance by Matthew Mclaughlin at the first Greenman Collective at Alice Court in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, led to the cover shot for Green, the Red Beard, a book of poems by Hannan, on Hozomeen Press. Full Circle, here we are, together again at PortFire.
Moon in Capricorn
CAPRICORN
featuring Model: Piper Meyers
Coogan Farm
Mystic, CT USA
Photograph by Michelle Gemma
new film picked up from the Lab:
120mm Ilford Delta 400 Pro film shot with Mamiya 7 scanned on Epson Perfection V600 Photo
from the new series: Personal Universe, an astrological study starring the model stable of Michelle Gemma (2017-2018)
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“There is a Light that never goes out”
SCRIPT FOR MICHELLE GEMMA PHOTOSHOOT
featuring Model: Alycia delosSantos as my Leo for the forthcoming series: “Personal Universe” (an astrological study of the zodiac featuring twelve models portraying their sign)
today’s locations: House of 1833 in Old Mystic and the Mystic Hilton in Mystic
“There is a Light that never goes out”
3 PM: arrive at the House of 1833:
You are my Leo goddess queen, and you are invited to the Mansion for a party and you are the honored guest.
We are going to get you dressed up in a fur coat ; in a beautiful vintage backless burgundy dress and you’re ready!
You’re ready for the honor, for the party ; to celebrate and be celebrated!
You show up to the Mansion as expected: you stalk around waiting for it:: you go room and room and it’s empty:
no one is there: the fireplace is not lit.
You change outfits hopeful that the party is about to start:
we were just a little premature:: more stalking; as in leonine prowess::: “what is going on?”
So we go to the hotel for the party:
4 PM: arrive at The Mystic Hilton
There are lights there are people: there is a fire:::
You can dance
You can see people and be a lioness.
I keep thinking of the Smiths lyric:
“Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one anymore”
So this is the triumphant realization of our arrival at the hotel:: we are seeing people and we are happy and at peace!
You have fun then at the end we wrap you in velvet swaths and you retreat to your den to relax and to dream:::::
“There is a Light that never goes out”
all Photographs by Michelle Gemma
Ghost Town
featuring Model: Alycia delosSantos
House of 1833, Old Mystic, CT USA
Photograph by Michelle Gemma
Kodak TMAX 120mm film scanned
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The Balance of Power
a new photo narrative featuring Model: Jane Alice
as my LIBRA
for the new series: Personal Universe, an astrological study starring the model stable of Michelle Gemma (2017-2018)
Photograph by Michelle Gemma
27 July 2018
Stonington Boro, CT USA
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
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featuring the Poem:
Edge by SYLVIA PLATH
“I’ll Make You Forget”
“I’ll Make You Forget”
a photo narrative featuring Model: Caroline Walz
Photographs by Michelle Gemma
11 October 2016
House of 1833
Old Mystic, CT USA
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“Return From The Sea”
“Return From The Sea”
a new photo narrative starring Writer: Royal Young
Text and Photographs by Michelle Gemma
25 June 2018
Spicer Mansion
15 Elm Street, Mystic, CT USA
It’ll End In Tears
It’ll End in Tears is the first album released by 4AD collective This Mortal Coil, an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell. The twelve tracks of the album are illustrated here, in proper order.
featuring Model: Emma Rocherolle
all Photographs by Michelle Gemma
Spicer Mansion, Mystic, CT USA
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Something has Ended and a New Cycle Begun
featuring Model: Liz Walz
2 November 2017
Stonington, CT USA
Photograph by Michelle Gemma
from the new series: Personal Universe, an astrological study starring the model stable of Michelle Gemma (2017)
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The Moon and the Melodies
featuring Model: Caroline Walz
Photographs by Michelle Gemma
6 September 2016
Stonington Boro. CT USA
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