SNAP! Lot 33 - Nelson French: New World Venice
Oh, SNAP! you little minx of a fundraiser. Ten years old you say?
Well you look terrific. Who did your shots?
Remember that image my friend Rico and I submitted to you? Just perusing today through my advance catalog of photographic inspiration all up for auction March 27th, (LOVE page 6!) I’ve got to tell you I’m embarrassed we even thought to send it such a dreadful submission.
I apologize: I apologize for even being part of such a bad photo shoot, apologize on behalf of myself, Rico, and, in fact, every other idiot out there with a camera who thinks they’re making art.
But in a weird way that photo is testimony to how much you’ve grown in one quick decade; evolving into the spectacular demonstration of artistic aplomb you are today is a long way from twits like me and my pal sending in this. (Really? A photo he shot of me smoking a joint, Soap Opera Digest by my side like a Mormon with a Bible?)
We called it ‘It’s Been A Bad Day Please Don’t Take A Picture’ because it was taken January 3rd some year and I was still recovering. A guy the radio started singing, It’s been a bad day, please don’t take a picture, and so Rico, inspired, shot up off the couch and began snapping me within a thick cloud of smoke.
Suddenly we were so clever, submitting away, two copies, as required. God we were high.
Moving on, SNAP! I am stunned by the leading edge images up for bid this year – some of them the most beautiful photographs I’ve ever seen. In particular, I love Lot 4 to pieces and bits, Globe De Mariee by Carole Suety:
Keep growing, kid and ignore snap-happy fools like me. Each year you bring art, beauty and gorgeous people together like one big glam squad, all to fund raise for the awesomeness that is The AIDS Committee of Toronto and that’s just damn hot. See you March 27th.
xShaun
P.S. Rico and I didn’t win.
P.P.S. Don’t you think Jeff Harris on this year’s jury is hot?
- Shaun Proulx
