New Artist's Website

Hi everyone, it's been a while since my last post but I wanted to share my new artist's website www.cmferrigno.com. 

I'll update this blog periodically but from now on the new site will be my primary artist's site. Here's a small selection of some recent work I've put up on the new site. These were shot in Woodside/Sunnyside, Queens and Baltimore.

I'm going to Ireland in 2 weeks and I plan on shooting there, please check my new website for those pics. I'll also be posting on my Instagram while there, follow me @cristina426.

Summer in the City

Here are some shots taken with my new Sony RX100. Walking around my hood in Bushwick and visiting Roosevelt Island. A study of summer in the city.

Instagram, Love It Or Hate It?

Some people really don't like Instagram, I'm not saying that there's not a plethora of crap and spam on there, but there is also some really excellent photography on there. Some photographers use it almost as a medium, as one would use a Holga to achieve a certain lo-fi look. I see it more as a sketchbook, something to keep my brain thinking about composition, color and subject matter. With Instagram I've ventured into food photography and even almost macro photography, something I've never really bothered to explore with my SLR.

I don't see these works as final pieces and some I like more than others, but it's the same with my sketchbook. I take 99% of my Instagram photos with either the iPod touch or the iPhone. I always have either on me (as a lot of artists carry their sketchbooks and cameras) and I see it as an opportunity to share my work with a larger audience. So, if you don't already please follow me on Instagram @cristina426.

I have a love hate relationship with Bushwick, I really hate living here as a neighborhood, it's dirty, loud and expensive but I've found real inspiration in a lot of the industrial areas of this up and coming neighborhood. It's quirky and colorful, dirty yet also austere in its architecture. I've found such wonderful juxtapositions in Bushwick that it is a pleasure to photograph. 

Here are some recent "sketches" from the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. 

All of these images were shot with the iPhone 5 with minimal editing in the Instagram app.

From here down these images were taken with the iPod Touch