Leeworkstudio

After alot of hard work and perseverance, Leeworkstudio.com, a website showcasing my best and latest photography has been launched. Please do visit the site and check it out.

Weddings

Living in multi-cultural Canada, it is interesting to photograph weddings due to the religion and special cultural traditions of the couple. Last year I had the chance to shoot an Italian and a Greek wedding and have now finally gotten around to posting some images from them on my photo blog.

Click on the titles below each photo to see the full set of images.

An Italian Wedding


A Greek Wedding

House of Cards

House of Cards (150 x 100cm), photo by Katrina Lee

Currently on display at the Bornholm Kunst Museum in Denmark, as part of the Poetisk Fusion Art and Architecture Installation.

If interested, please contact katrina@leeworkstudio.com for pricing details

Red Stripe

Red Stripe (150cm x 100cm), photo by Katrina Lee

In conjunction with Poetisk Fusion, an outdoor film, lighting and sound installation at Bornholms Kunst Museum , kleejourneys has the pleasure to present 'Red Stripe', the first of several photos to be displayed at the museum from Oct 13 2009 until January 2010.

Click here to learn more about the project, including a web gallery of more images by project photographers Katrina Lee and Ole Christiansen.

Note: There are 5 copies of Red Stripe(150cm x 100cm) available for purchase. For pricing details, please contact katrina@leeworkstudio.com

Poetisk Fusion

Press article for Poetisk Fusion, Bornholms Tidende Monday 21 September

Photo by Katrina Lee
(click on the image for a larger readable version)

Poetisk Fusion is an outdoor film, lighting and sound installation at Bornholms Kunst Museum, running from October 9 until 18, 19:00 to 21:00. The project is created by Palle Vedel (Manden med Cameraet/Metropolights) in collaboration with artist Daniel Vestergaard, composer Christian Rønn, and photographers Katrina Lee and Ole Christiansen.

Through specially composed lighting and sound, and the manipulation of Dziga Vertovs legendary film Man with a Movie Camera, the installation aims to challenge the museum's architecture, and in the process, connect the lines that set the agenda for Futurism and Constructivism from Western Art History to the Early 20th century.

Poetic Fusion also uses different forms of communication such as the newly developed 3D virtual gallery which will give museum visitors a look into today's most advanced 3D technology. During the projects' 3 phases, individual still images taken by Katrina Lee and Ole Christiansen will be presented in this virtual gallery, as well as hung in the museum for re-interpretation.

Ligtog på Nørrebro

Gun violence due to the drug war between Hells Angels and immigrant groups in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen has been increasing rapidly in the last year. On February 27, 25 year old Mustafa Shakir Hsownay was innocently killed while sitting in his car in a parking lot at the Mjølnerparken Estate.

In commemoration of his death and in protest of the violence, a powerful and dignified demonstration was held on Saturday, March 14. It took place in the form of a funeral procession march from Nørrebro Station to Dronning Louises bridge on Nørrebrogade.

On arrival at the end point, the backhatch of the car was opened to reveal the coffin one last time. A hush of quietness filled the street as friends, family and loved ones rushed forward for one more goodbye. Bystanders stood still on the sidewalk and in the open windows above.

The faces around me blurred in grief. My hands fell to my side, my camera no longer in ready position. I could only hear cries of pain and grief.

The complete set of photos from "Faces, Nørrebro Funeral Procession'' can be viewed by clicking here.

The Professional

I am famous

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. My photo of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre (below) was found on my flickr photo website and selected to be in the fifth edition of the Schmap Toronto Guide.

To visit the Schmap site, click here. The photo is small in size and there is no financial reward, but no matter, as more importantly, it is nice to be discovered and have a photo that is credited correctly.

Perspective

More from the Roy Villevoye Detours exhibition in Rotterdam

Fotographie

A boring shot linking photography and architecture proves to be an unsuccessful attempt at finding inspiration. Somedays, even a visually symbolic and literal connection is futile.

Camera Exercises

Staying healthy, physically and creatively.

Introducing....

..... High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRi) and Vladimir Mikadze.

Blending computer graphics and photography, HDRi allows a greater range of values between dark and light areas allowing for final images of many levels of intensity. Vladimir Mikadze does a great job pushing this techinique to it's fullest extent in his work. The result are a set of images that could be categorized as "tragedy and comedy".

Photo by Vladimir Mikadze

See more of his Russia: St. Petersburg Series

here

Random Photographer

In conversation with Julia

Photograph by Julia Gotz

Saturday night was the perfect and rare kind of evening in Toronto. The air was cold and the snow storm fast approaching, but winter weather didn't matter. Life and a buzzing high energy filled the streets with the kind of surealism hard to describe. The holiday season is as good an excuse to celebrate as any other.

On College street, there they were, laughing on the corners, drunkenly going to party number 3, others catching cabs home, ....or wandering into John's Classic Italian for that spontaneous late night pizza slice.

There was Julia. She introduced herself as, at joolya.ca, not julia.ca because it was already taken. She noticed us, as we stumbled into John's, bringing life back to the place after the 1am lull. Me, I noticed her, the lady with camera, out on this perfect Saturday night filled with right moments. A rowdy crowd of partiers passed by the window. Julia was up, her eye up to the camera in hand, shooting the commotion, then out the door for less reflection.

She wanted to photograph us. She told me she does not shoot professionally, because photography becomes stale when you shoot to make money. I don't want to believe that. From her photoblog, she is Julia Gotz. That night she was Joolya, the photographer sitting at the table by the window with a camera, poised to record it all for the blogpost titled "Snowstorm, John's Classic Italian.

The random encounter hit me, where was my camera?