Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

From My Diary: A Day With The Angels, photos and background from the latest edition of Esquire featuring an homage to Frank Bez. 10:00 All four women are ready to get ready, sending the hair, makeup, and styling people into a frenzy. Previously bored pockets of men have conversations like “Holy shit!” and “I know!” [...]

My company is launching a new visual brand over the next couple of months, and the photography is changing dramatically as well. The new spec calls for more environmental type shots, which means that I’m likely to get a lot more work. In the past, people have been able to get away with the “stand [...]

After a long battle with some php, I’m happy to announce that my photography portfolio site, JonathanGayman.com is now up and seems to be running smoothly. I had an earlier version up about a year ago, but although it looked pretty, it didn’t work from a usability standpoint. I wanted the images to be accessable [...]

I’ve been a supporter of Creative Commons since I started blogging way back in 2003. Now that I am making photographs for a living, I’m spending a lot more time thinking about the implications of Creative Commons, and how that affects my career as a photographer. Dan Heller has a great written a great article [...]

37.5 percent! Boo ya bitches. I was being coy and all, you know, sayin’ I’m just looking for a good Democrat blah blah, but now? I’m fired up. Lets go. Bring it on. Political hyperbole is now notched up to eleven. BTW, Ron Paul is a giant gaping asshole.

While I was completely non-plussed about having to work over the last week between Christmas and New Years, there was the benefit of having a quiet commute each day. Most of the time I was one of few, if not the only passenger on my bus, and the trains were running empty and quickly. Today, [...]