allison herbert photography

photos + words

allisondh — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:51:13 +0000

Last month I attended the Occupy movement’s first Day of Solidarity march on Time Square and subsequently published a small photo feature on the event for Havana Times. For those of you who don’t like reading or clicking hyperlinks, photos from the day are below…

More OWS coverage coming soon.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: New York City, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, photography, photojournalism, protests, Time Square

Strength in Numbers

allisondh — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:52:57 +0000

Days pass, criticism continues, and support for #occupywallstreet only grows with endorsements from labor unions, student communities, activist groups, celebrities, and more. OWS held it’s largest General Assembly to date at Washington Square Park on Saturday afternoon in an effort to spread knowledge about the cause and gain further outreach. Thousands were in attendance for the acutely peaceful, organized, and productive gathering.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: New York City, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, photography, photojournalism, protests, Washington Square Park

occupying wall street

allisondh — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:06:14 +0000

Two weeks into the occupation/protest/campout/party of the NYC financial district’s Zuccotti Park and the numbers are only growing. The Movement took a monumental turn Wednesday as OWS joined with several labor unions in a collaborative march on City Hall. This is democracy at its finest and there’s no end in sight. More to follow in the coming weeks…

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: New York City, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, photography, photojournalism, protests

escape.

allisondh — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:56:20 +0000

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: New York City, photography, photojournalism

parades parades parades

allisondh — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:15:11 +0000

I swear after this one I’m done.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: gay pride parade, New York City, NYC Pride, photography, photojournalism

eat your heart out Tom Hanks*

allisondh — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:16:04 +0000

Kicked off the Summer partying with the creme de la creme of Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade. Who said Brooklyn was weird?

*Tom Hanks -> Mermaids -> Splash -> Get it?

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Brooklyn, Coney Island, mermaid parade, New York City, photography, photojournalism, Summer

Spring expired

allisondh — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:19:39 +0000

Is it me or does Spring taste a little sweeter through the lens of expired polaroid film…?

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Brooklyn, New York City, photography, photojournalism, polaroid, Spring

tourists:

allisondh — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:59:25 +0000

The funny thing about tourists is how serendipitously in your way they always manage to be. I took a road trip through coastal Spain last summer and, after several thwarted-by-unaware-fannypacked-foreigners attempts at photographing the spanish sites and landscape, I gave up and started shooting them instead.

No worries though, I got rid of the gun.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: photography, photojournalism, Spain, tourism, Travel

take me back to Chinatown

allisondh — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:53:23 +0000

This city’s never dull, I’ll give it that. What do you get when you put gangsters, femme fatales, private eyes, corrupt cops and down and out musicians in a room with unlimited alcohol?

…a rockin’ saturday night.

Update: Third photo down is not technically by me…but was thrown in for good measure.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: black and white, film noir, New York City, photography, photojournalism, vintage

leftovers

allisondh — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:08:01 +0000

A glimpse into my editing process: after a day (or an hour or a weekend) of shooting, the first thing I do is sort through the mass of data on my memory card(s) separating the trash from the future facebook album of scenery and shots of friends from the potential blog post. The bulk is trash, a remainder go to fb and a select few are sometimes pulled for a blog. There is however, a fourth category. The few photos that are too good for fb but don’t quite fit with the working post. These are my leftovers. With no immediate place to put them they generally wind up forgotten; lost somewhere in the abyss of my hard drive.

What follows are some leftovers from the last three months. Different dates, different cities, different subjects. All too good to be forgotten.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Berlin, France, London, Paris, photography, photojournalism, Prague, Travel