FREEKMAGNET

PHOTOS + WORDS | JEREMY KIRSCH

FREEKMAGNET

A toy wooden plane soaring through the clouds

PHOTOS + WORDS | JEREMY KIRSCH

©2015 JEREMY KIRSCH

Cowgirl pinup on the open range. Staged portrait.
Unhappy croquet match with both angry and dispondent players
Hipters kicking it and drinking beer. Glamorous woman sits on the hood of an old Plymouth
Scene involving an alien abduction
Young woman dancing at the disco
Woman in a leopard print bikini wielding a spear
Birthday party with a dead god at the hands of a group of 10 year olds
Figures plummeting from the heights of a burning building
A posed portrait of a young woman; a PreRafaelite beauty
Portrait of a man in a suit holding a paint brush
A group of people at a table having a disasterous holiday dinner
A crazy lady holding a bottle of booze
Doctor and nurse - the nurse has a giant syringe
A woman holding a sword
A toy wooden plane soaring through the clouds
Well dressed dandy wearing a hat
Tattooed oracle bearing a sprig from a bay tree
Suburban guy getting ready for a barbeque
Woman with two 45rpm records posed before Hokusai's Great Wave of Kanagawa
A prom queen bearing a twriling baton and a slice of pie
Well dressed man with long black hair - based on the Loteria card
Beautiful woman playing an upright bass
Warrior woman battling a giant half-human half-animal monster - paparazzi are recording the event
Moonrise over a cardboard desert
Cherubs celebrating the human brain

ABOUT

Jeremy Kirsch was raised in a house with cameras and a darkroom. His first photographic epiphany was artificially induced and came while thumbing through his mother's Diane Arbus books with a few friends during an all night party.

Possessing a strange knack for meeting people in unusual circumstances, the subjects in his work are usually his friends or recent acquaintances. Having worked for a living as a professional fabricator and an amateur set painter, much of Jeremy's photographic work involves the use of sets and props that he has either constructed himself or commissioned others to make for him. He works with an old Graflex camera and whatever inexpensive Russian medium format camera he can afford. In his studio, he employs the use of hot lights almost exclusively.

Residing in Fillmore, California, Jeremy has exhibited his work in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and Southern California. His first book, Freekmagnet, was published in 2005.

CONTACT JEREMY

Despite evidence to the contrary, Jeremy is accessible and easy to reach. He is based in Fillmore, California, an agricultural wonderland located in the heart of scenic Ventura County.