Baker Artist Portfolios

2nd Amendment Landscapes are an exploration of how the right to bear arms is reflected on the American landscape. 

The generation of skateboarders I looked up to while growing up are now mostly over 50 years old. Despite their age, these founding members of a marginalized youth culture are defying ideas of age appropriate behavior and continue to follow their youthful passion for skateboarding.
I am documenting these skateboarders as they are now as well as details of their individual experiences as the silverbacks of their tribe and that there is still a sizable population of first-generation skateboarders found riding their boards in parks, streets and in empty backyard pools.

Breezewood is an exploration of small-town life in a town where seemingly no one lives. People come from elsewhere to open shop for those who are “just passing through.” Gas stations and restaurants are surrounded by overly ambitious sprawling parking lots. Rusting restaurant equipment sits outside of shuttered independent cafes alongside bustling corporate giants. This ‘Town of Motels’ offers hundreds of rooms for those headed somewhere else.

A collection of photographs of local Baltimore musicians shot with 120 medium format film on a Fuji645 and Yashica Mat 24g

In the spring of 2018, with a Neighborhood Lights grant from Baltimore Office Promotion of the Arts as part of Light City,  I had the pleasure of collaborating with an incredible group of residents, community parters, artists, musicians and organizers to create two original shadow puppet plays that imagine a history of Remington and Brooklyn/Curtis Bay from the lens of de-industrialization, distinguishing what makes the neighborhoods distinct and what draws them together.

...Random everyday encounters with beauty.

A photographic conversation
 
 

This is from my latest book, Design With Love, documenting the work of young architects  across the USA.  
The last chapter is about Block Captain Donald Quarles, architect Daniel Greenspan  and many others working  in West Baltimore's Franklin Square community, reclaiming vacant lots, creating parks and community centers that enhance the neighborhood. I continue to work and document life there.

NASA Space Apps Challenge Mission Create a Short Documentary within 48 hours. The content had to be created, and submitted within the 48 window of time. The Short Documentary had to be under 5 Minutes and relavent to the Annual NASA International Space Apps Challenge. This was my 2nd Create -A-thon film this year, so being a walking production studio has turned into a specialty. The film was Directed, Edited, and scored using only mobile devices. The process was brutal, yet the completion of the Mission was worth every moment.