{"id":14323,"date":"2012-11-17T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=14323"},"modified":"2023-11-04T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:38:53","slug":"swan-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/swan-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan & James"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because she grew up with a photographer dad and a stinky darkroom in the closet, Zo\u00eb Rodriguez swore she’d never pick up a camera for work. Then, 10 years ago she was propelled into the profession\u00a0by a project she created called\u00a0what I thought I saw<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“My project allowed me to travel to many different places, documenting diversity and meeting people from all walks of life,” she says. “I love people and I now know that I am a photographer because of my desire to portray life beautifully and with candor, to bring honesty out of my subjects.”<\/p>\n

Rodriguez’s portraits of artists have appeared frequently in our pages — most recently her shots of Gentry Blackburn appeared in the\u00a0November 2012 edition of 15 Bytes.<\/a><\/p>\n

In her personal work she says she has been inspired recently by Salt Lake photographer Bill Patterson to experiment with light on figures and skin. “Swan & James – Looking Towards Different Lights” is one of the results.<\/p>\n

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Swan & James - Looking Towards Different Lights<\/p><\/div>\n

Zo\u00eb Rodriguez\u00a0and partner, Robert Swift operate zo\u00eb rodriguez photography, inc. and maintain a studio in the historic SAAN’s photo space. You can view more of her work at www.zoerodriguez.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because she grew up with a photographer dad and a stinky darkroom in the closet, Zo\u00eb Rodriguez swore she’d never pick up a camera for work. Then, 10 years ago she was propelled into the profession\u00a0by a project she created called\u00a0what I thought I saw. “My project allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1091],"tags":[1074],"class_list":["post-14323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-saturday-snaps","tag-by-zoe-rodriguez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/2012_11_04_Swan-and-James-33-Edit-Edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 17:24:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14323"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70188,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions\/70188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}