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Fifth Labor Photography

F.R. Latimer, Fine Art Photographer (Los Angeles, CA 90025) – Focus on Portraits & Sports/Live Action

The digital presentation of City Upon a Hill: Hopes in America is now live - Limited edition prints available

  • Portraits
    • Project: City Upon a Hill
    • Set: Color and Form
    • Series: Color Theory
      • Color Theory: Complements
    • Series: Curtain Calls
      • Dramatis Personae I (Red)
      • Stand Ups I (Royal)
      • Stand Ups II (Gold)
  • Headshots & Professional Photography
  • Sports & Action
  • Live Action / Events
  • Other Work
  • Instagram
  • Contact & Pricing
Color and Form: Red Heart
Chicago – Skyscraper from Riverwalk
Color and Form: Green Diamond (Hypocyloid)
Concert: St. Vincent @ the Belasco Theater, Los Angeles
St. Vincent @ the Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles
Dramatis Persona: Tea & Assassins (Red Curtain)
Color and Form: Four Corners
Sports Action – Baseball Player at the Plate
Action - Baseball Player at the Plate
Professional Portrait – Tight Facial Crop
Professional Headshot - Tight Crop
City Upon a Hill: Gooch – Omaha, NE
City Upon a Hill: Gooch - Omaha, NE
Sports Portrait – Football Player
Yellowstone National Park, WY – Grand Prismatic Spring
Stand Ups I: No Mr. Bond…(Royal Curtain)
Stand Ups I: No Mr. Bond...(Royal Curtain)
Charity Event – SidewalkProject.org
City Upon a Hill: Natasha Muse – East Bay, CA
City Upon a Hill: Natasha Muse - East Bay, CA
Sports Action: Tackled For a Loss
Stand Ups I: Nick Guerra is George Carlin (Royal Curtain)
Stand Ups I: Nick Guerra is George Carlin (Blue Curtain)
Concert: Charli XCX & Tove Lo @ the El Rey
Professional Headshot – Engaging Laughter
First Dance – Triptych
Chicago – Weird Spitting Face
Stand Ups II: Mary Patterson Broome is Sam Kinison (Gold Curtain)
Mary Patterson Broome is Sam Kinsion
Street Photography: Venice Beach Musician
Complements: Blue/Orange
Portrait Photography
City Upon a Hill: Chauncey Troutman – Pittsburgh, PA
Portrait Photography
Concert: AURORA @ The Roxy LA
Event: Concert at Roxy

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On February 9th, 2020, my life exploded. I am not On February 9th, 2020, my life exploded. I am not exaggerating when I say that my life as it had been ended that day. The weeks that followed were, without a doubt, the absolute worst of my life.

Then, after the 5 weeks of utter hell abated slightly, the pandemic hit in earnest. I arrived back in Los Angeles on March 12th - one day before the city shut down.

The months that followed were a gray blur punctuated by moments of compounded tragedy. It is also not an exaggeration to say that the pandemic itself was barely in the top-5 worst things about my 2020 experience.

As I'm now, a year and a half later, well into the process of grief and recovery and the pandemic itself seems to be waning (despite the best efforts of some of my fellow Americans to keep it alive and well), I return to Instagram with photos of what was the last "normal" moment I had for very long time.

These are from @ToveLo at @StAndrewsHall for her Sunshine Kitty tour. I was originally to see her again the next night in Chicago - that never happened.

She performed that night in Detroit, mostly sitting down, having broken her foot less than a week earlier in Brooklyn. The break did nothing to stop her from putting on an amazing show - performing while sitting in what can only be called a throne, queen that she is.
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Top nine for 2019, on the year's final day. Like, Top nine for 2019, on the year's final day. Like, I know I tend towards the dark side of the #palette, but dang. 😆

See y'all in 2020.

#topnine #top9 #top9of2019 #topnine2019 #portraits but make them #saturated and #dark.
Kevin: "Hey Rod, what's that song about Grandma ge Kevin: "Hey Rod, what's that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?" Rod: "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?" Kevin: "...no..." -Jorma Taccone & Andy Samberg in Hot Rod (2007)

#Streetphoto of a #reindeer in #Wrigleyville #Chicago outside @dagspizza. No word as to whether this reindeer can fly and/or whether it has run over any grandmas. Is it just me, or is he looking at me with a #suspicious look?

#Street #Streetphotography #wrigleyvillechicago #winter #furry #fuzzy #shaggy #antlers #deer #urbandeer #christmasspirit #santasreindeer #rangifer #caribou is just another name for reindeer - did you know that? And that in the original reindeer poem, the last two reindeer were #Dunder and #Blixem? Blixem. Blix. Em. I just... Also, @thelonelyisland on the minute chance they'll follow the mention - Hot Rod is genius, y'all are great.
"Town of the flagpole sitters, iron city, where ev "Town of the flagpole sitters, iron city, where everything looks so old yet the people look so young." - Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

#LTrain #conductor talking with his counterpart across the #trainplatform,  #fullerton stop, #Chicago. Living in LA, I love the #trains in Chicago - so convenient to so many areas.

#streetphotography (above the #street), #Train #platform #TheL #Illinois #passengers #urbantransport #publictransport #publictransportation #publictransit #streetphoto #streetphotos #winterweather #urbanscape #urbanscene #urbanscenes
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just l "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." - Andy Warhol

A photo of Andy #Warhol's "Screen Test: Mario Banana #1" being viewed (that shadow at the bottom of the frame is an #audience member's #head) at the #ArtInstituteofChicago's #AndyWarhol exhibition. The #Screentests were short (3m-ish) #films in which the subjects either stayed still or performed some simple action, creating a 'semi-static' portrait.

Warhol's #portraiture was a major portion of his work, and he's credited with at least partially spurring a revived interest in #portraits after abstract expressionism. His portraits are some of his most famous and iconic images (especially in the 70s, he used their commerical popularity to fund his more esoteric projects). Given my love of portraits, its likely not surprising that I dig that portion of his work a lot - and though I like his famous silk-screened pop images, it's his more intimate photos like the screen tests or his #Polaroids that are most evocative for me.

The exhibit is great - go see it. 😁

#stillframe of #MarioMontez, the #WarholSuperstar, #eating and giving #fellatio to a #banana while in #drag (as far as I can find, #Montez #identified as both a #crossdresser and a #dragqueen) #Chicago  #Illinois  #popart #artmuseum #film.
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