Charles Ched Beckwith

Charles "Ched" Beckwith is an artist working in New York City. He is a writer, photographer, and director.

Bio

Charles Beckwith is a commercial artist with experience across radio, television, dramatic feature filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, fashion photography, and fiction writing. His documentaries have featured a wide variety of subjects, including everything from women's surfing on the East Coast ("East Coast Wahine Surf Championships"), following multinational corporations into India ("Re:Solve Mumbai"), to a film about the lifespan of a film festival ("Cucalorus at 10") [ [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=25641 Beckwith Directs 'Three Wishes' at Underground Festival (BroadwayWorld.com) ] ]

Works and Performances

*photographer "I Like Fog" solo gallery show, 2006 at Plan B in the East Village [ [http://www.onemodelplace.com/members_in_the_news_list.cfm?sr=121&&article_sub_section=Members%20in%20the%20News%20Print& OMP Members In The News ] ]
*directed "Three Wishes" [ [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=25641 Beckwith Directs 'Three Wishes' at Underground Festival (BroadwayWorld.com) ] ] , March 11-15, 2008 in the Payan Theater at the Roy Arias Theater Center

Quotations

*"An editorial tells a story, argues a point, focuses on an issue. Like a written editorial, a photographic editorial expresses a position on an idea. It is an editorial comment, a note from the artist or editor or publisher. Someone is communicating an idea through the images." [ [http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/2007/04/what-is-editorial.html Charles Beckwith Photography Blog - Nobody heard from Jack...: What is an editorial? ] ]

*"When you do a double take, thinking something about a model is makeup and it turns out to be their real face and it is beautiful, that is the 'exotic' I look for. Sofia Loren is exotic, Djaimon Honsu is exotic, Yvonne De Carlo was exotic. They have sculpturally breathtaking features that really would shock the kind of person who never leaves their hometown, but even people who get around are surprised when they first see these people. Exotic must be elegant in form, and exotic must be breathtakingly rare. For me, that is." [ [http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/2007/04/what-is-exotic-model.html Charles Beckwith Photography Blog - Nobody heard from Jack...: What is an exotic model? ] ]

References

* [http://www.onemodelplace.com/members_in_the_news_list.cfm?sr=121&&article_sub_section=Members%20in%20the%20News%20Print& OMP Members In The News, News ID: 28065]
* [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=25641 "Beckwith Directs 'Three Wishes' at Underground Festival" on BroadwayWorld.com]
* [http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/2007/04/what-is-editorial.html blog post about editorial photography]

Links

* [http://www.charlesbeckwith.com/ CharlesBeckwith.com]
* [http://imdb.com/name/nm1278510/ IMDB entry]