These images were created for a 2003 calendar project produced in late 2002 for Gibco, a biotech research supply company. The goal was to put a dramatic face on an important research product that, quite literally, had the drama of clear liquid. But the product’s user base and target audience worked in a research environment employing a huge variety of unusual objects. It is from these objects that I shaped the
face of Gibco by assembling and photographing the faces you see presented here.

As both an assemblage artist and photographer, Gibco’s agency came to me to conceive and photograph a series of faces for a calendar that would hang on the wall of Gibco’s customers for all of 2003. After several meetings to familiarize me with the hundreds of available lab items and their functions, I was freed to create and shoot the above images. In the end, I was also called upon to refine the presentation format for the faces as they would finally appear in the calendar.

These photographs have won local, regional and national Addies, as well as international awards. The best part? Gibco’s customers loved them!