#Photographers Buffalo NY

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take a look around you, it’s everywhere

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[mylifeinsound]

Relive The Show: Cat Ridgeway

[amelianeek]

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[killiansteinerphoto]

Gas Station

Timeless Babez, Buffalo NY, 6/19/23

[garadinervi]

Hans Namuth (photograph), Marisol Escobar, 1964 [Courtesy of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY. © Hans Namuth Estate, Center for Creative Photograph]

[nocternalrandomness]

USAAF P-40N Warhawk photographed on a test flight over Buffalo, NY c.1944

[lindenattic]

NEW DRESS IMAGE. circa survive at the town ballroom, buffalo NY, october 26, 2012. taken by david summers, who i believe was circa's touring photographer at the time. also with the additional info that jake lang (merch guy slash tour manager) was the one who bought the dress lmfao. link to tweet, i'm having trouble archiving the actual tweet but at the very least here's the archived photo

[tigerstrikesasteroidnetwork]

NY / Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet

Courtesy of the Artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY

Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet August 5 - September 10, 2023 Opening reception: August 5, 2023, 5-8pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Documents from the Closet, a solo installation of work by Ryan Patrick Krueger, curated by Samantha Box. This exhibition marks Krueger’s New York City debut, and is accompanied by a curatorial text written by Mary Lee Hodgens, artist and former Assistant Director of Light Work, Syracuse.

Documents from the Closet

Mary Lee Hodgens For their ongoing project, Documents from the Closet, artist Ryan Patrick Krueger works with a personal collection of LGBTQ+ archives, vernacular photographs, and ephemera to tell a story about grief, loss, and courage. The artist weaves together two narratives, an unflinching effort to understand personal losses and identity through an exploration that begins in the historical oppression of gay men.

In the gallery, Krueger props seven-foot-tall pine boxes precariously against the walls, balanced atop piles of dirt or sand. In size and shape, the boxes feel reminiscent of monuments, gravestones, or coffins. Each box contains a history lesson: formally elegant collages of monochromatic black-and-white shapes that Krueger punctuates with flourishes of pink, red, and the bright yellow of shipping envelopes. Collage is about finding new meaning in the juxtaposition of disparate elements. For Krueger, this process of isolating, truncating, or layering visual information allows for dialogue with the past while telling their own newer story.  

In 2011, Krueger began an eBay search using phrases such as “gay interest” and “vintage gay photograph” to hunt down photographs depicting what they describe as “tenderness, friendship, intimacy, and true love.” These photographs, including tintypes and photo booth portraits, show us men—now long gone—embracing or sometimes just mugging for the camera. Played out decades ago, these fleeting moments of connection and intimacy now feel furtive. Krueger allows us to see their process by including eBay receipts and the handwritten envelopes in which a network of other collectors of “gay interest” move and share these documents. We grieve these lives with the artist, who asks us to consider both the complexities of living a double life in pre-Stonewall America and our own human need for connection and community.

Krueger references many iconic gay artists, activists, and organizations here, including Act Up, David Deitcher, Essex Hemphill, Hal Fischer, Jonathan Ned Katz, Marlon Riggs, the Mattachine Society, and David Wojnarowicz. The artists also layers many symbols of the struggle over the documents, including a red tie, pink triangles, a locket containing the ashes of a childhood best friend, red boxing gloves, and clippings of classified ads from the pages of a defunct 1990’s LGBTQ+ newspaper.

What emerges is that Krueger’s embrace of LGBTQ+ American history allows them to stand on a timeline that faces forward. Although each box feels final and heavy with grief, there is also a sense of triumph. In acknowledging those who’ve gone before, Krueger transforms the boxes into protest banners. Furtiveness falls away, and in its place comes acceptance and yes, pride. As artist and AIDs activist David Wojnarowicz said, “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific ramifications.”

Ryan Patrick Krueger holds a BFA in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and was formerly Digital Services Coordinator for Light Work, a non-profit artist-run photography organization at Syracuse University. Krueger has curated exhibitions and held shows nationally including Documents from the Closet at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), On Longing at MONACO (St. Louis, MO), Response Response (with Linda Kliewer in Portland, OR), and Queer Moments: Selections from the Light Work Collection (Syracuse, NY). Most recently, Krueger exhibited work in the 2022 FotoFest Biennial, If I Had A Hammer, (Houston, TX), and appeared in Aperture, Art in America, and Sixty Inches From Center.  

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young veins spring tour

The Young Veins toured North America opening for Foxy Shazam with Bad Rabbits in the spring of 2010. The band knew Foxy Shazam because they were also with One Haven Music. Ryan explained how the tour came about in this interview:

We are managed by the same people. It was kind of tough to get on a tour when you don’t have any music out or any records, so I think they did us a favor. Or maybe we are doing them a favor.

^ map of the Foxy Shazam tour.

As well as touring with Foxy Shazam, the Young Veins also played two solo shows at the Echo in Los Angeles, which is a tiny venue with a 350 person capacity, as well as a set at South By Southwest Festival (SXSW) on 19 March.

Several fans who posted concert recaps of the shows mentioned that the band didn't have roadies and were setting up their equipment themselves. It seems like Jon was doing most of it, which makes sense as he used to be a guitar tech for The Academy Is... and he was probably also the strongest.

The band ran a Twitter competition for the tour, where fans could tweet a picture of their favorite vacation memory to be entered to win free tickets to one of the shows. Here is an infographic posted by the band about it:

Ryan talked about the competition in this interview:

[The vacation photograph contest] was [the label's] idea, which I really liked because I have been meeting the kids every night and they are really excited about it. There is really nothing we have to do, it is just a great way to have people come for free.

Tour dates

The hyperlinked shows from the dates below are the ones I've found pictures/videos/information for, so clicking them will take you to a tag about that day. The italicised shows are ones that were not part of the Foxy Shazam tour.

13 March - Los Angeles, CA (The Echo) 15 March - Nashville, TN (Exit/In) 18 March - Houston, TX (House of Blues Houston) 19 March - Austin, TX (SXSW - Dirty Dog Bar) 21 March - San Antonio, TX (White Rabbit) 23 March - Little Rock, AR (Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom) 24 March - Atlanta, GA (The Masquerade) 26 March - Ybor City, FL (Orpheum) 27 March - Jacksonville, FL (Jack Rabbits) 28 March - Richmond, VA (Canal Club Downstairs Lounge) 29 March - New York, NY (The Studio At Webster Hall) 30 March - Allston, MA (Great Scott) 31 March - Brooklyn, NY (Knitting Factory) 1 April - Webster, CT (Webster Underground) 3 April - Montreal, QC (Petit Campus) 5 April - Toronto, ON (Sneaky Dee’s) 6 April - Buffalo, NY (Mohawk Place) 7 April - Columbus, OH (The Basement) 8 April - Pontiac, MI (The Eagle Theatre) 9 April - Covington, KY (The Mad Hatter) 10 April - Chicago, IL (Beat Kitchen) 11 April - Buffalo, MN (The Vault) 13 April - Denver, CO (Marquis Theatre) 15 April - Seattle, WA (El Corazón) 16 April - Vancouver, BC (Venue Nightclub) 17 April - Portland, OR (Satyricon) 18 April - San Francisco, CA (Bottom of the Hill) 19 April - Orangevale, CA (The Boardwalk) 21 April - West Hollywood, CA (Troubadour) 23 April - Scottsdale, AZ (Martini Ranch) 24 April - Albuquerque, NM (Launchpad) 26 April - Lawrence, KS (Jackpot Saloon & Music Hall) 27 April - St. Louis, MO (Off Broadway Nightclub) 31 May - Los Angeles, CA (The Echo)

Average Setlist

Defiance Take a Vacation! Change Dangerous Blues Everyone But You The Other Girl Cape Town Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't Young Veins (Die Tonight)

^ a picture of the band with Bad Rabbits and Foxy Shazam during the spring tour from the Young Veins' Facebook page.

Quotes from the band about the spring tour

It’s been so much fun playing these venues. We’ve scaled back on the way that we’re touring. We’re back in a van and we’re actually able to experience what we’re doing and where we’re going instead of just being on someone else’s schedule and being told where to be and when. This last tour we just finished with Foxy Shazam was just so much fun. We had more time to hang out with fans and the venues sound better, it’s so much more intimate, I really hope that we can continue and maintain playing in smaller places for awhile just because of the fact that the sound is so much better. Once you get into the bigger places it really makes a difference. – Jon

It is more interesting every night, you never know what you are going to walk into. I question the craftsmanship in a lot of these clubs because I can't figure out what they were thinking but it makes it a lot of fun. Being so close to the crowd again, I forgot how that was and it makes the show have more energy. – Ryan

It’s been weird for us because this is the first time in the last four or five years that we’ve gone on tour playing songs that no one really knows. It was interesting to get people’s reactions and I think it went fairly well. I know just playing live for us in general gives us motivation to do the kind of songs we want to write and even more focused on wanting to have it translate better live than songs we’ve written in the past. – Jon

Especially since we don't have any music out or released, building a really close relationship with what fanbase we do have is really important. Being as close as possible, building friendships and meeting people around the country is good. [...] The best feeling in the world is to have people that did not come for our band and like our band and tell us that after the show, especially since no one has any pretense of what to expect. If they did like it that is a really good feeling. – Nick M

Photos from the road

In the first picture you can see a fox that was given to the band by a fan at the Atlanta show on March 24th, which they took on the road during this tour.

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Thom had me photograph him in the summer of 2003 for his future and last Christmas Card. We lived in Buffalo NY right off of Lake Erie, right where this snowstorm hit the hardest.

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