Tod Seelie : Blog

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I recently photographed for a story on a daring icy mountain rescue on the PCT early in the year for Alta Journal . Thank you to Cody, Cameron and Eric for sharing your time and stories.

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A series of my photos of empty Los Angeles during the Covid-19 lockdown were featured in Alta Journal’s cover story: A Year Like No Other.

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I fell honored to be included in TIME’s Top Photos of 2020 . This photograph was originally included in my coverage of a shuttered Las Vegas Strip for The Guardian.

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I will be showing a new work-in-progress series, Forward Facing , at Space Place in Russia later this October.

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I was recently commissioned to photograph for a story on the black market for white sage for VICE . It was a challenging and rewarding assignment that I feel fortunate to have received.

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Los Angeles, along with many cities, exploded in protests following the death of George Floyd. The grief and rage were undeinable. I offered c-prints on my Instagram in exchange for donations to...

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I covered many of the anti-lockdown protests in and around Los Angeles this spring. One of my dispatches is published on VICE .

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In March I will be showing select work from Cuba in a group exhibition at Sager-Braudis Gallery in Columbia, MO.

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I pitched and photographed a story on the empty Las Vegas Strip fior The Guardian . It was the first time since the Kennedy assasination that the famous Strip went dark.

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I will be having a solo exhibition in Chapel Hill, NC as part of the LEVEL residency . It’s a preview of a larger series I have been working on for over a decade, American Wild.

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I am exhibiting a selection of images from the Swimming Cities as part of Islands of Utopia at Musuku in Berlin. The show will be at the House of Statistics at Alexanderplatz, an abandoned plac...

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I recently photographed the abandoned NASA rocket test stands in southern California for Alta Journal. It was a lot of fun getting to explore the different stands (all while keeping one eye scann...

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I’ll be teaching a class on event photography this November at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC. The class will take place on two weekends with an assignment to shoot a live music event to be pr...

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I recently pitched a story on low-budget #vanlife to the auto site Jalopnik and then hit the road to travel and live in a van through the Southwest. In July. Willingly. Our adventure was written ...

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Photos from a private white supremacist gathering in Kentucky I photographed just before Charlottesville are up on Rolling Stone , accompanying Anna Merlan’s account of the event from her new ...

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I recently had the great fortune to join an amazing roster of photographers at the Chico portfolio review . It was an amazing impactful week. Thank you again to Charcoal Book Club for making it ...

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I had the great pleasure of photographing Choke Hole, a drag queen wrestling extravaganza , in New Orleans last month. I thought this would be a perfect story for Deadspin and am so glad that th...

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A fun recent shoot for the premiere party of TNT’s new series I Am The Night produced by Little Cinema  at the Chateau Marmont. For more images from that night, check here .

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Photographs of Lindsey Mesta, the founder of California-grown Frinj Coffee, and her farm taken for Alta Journal . More to be found here .

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