What I consider traditional portraits of friends, family members and co-workers.

These are portraits that I shot and then illustrated digitally in photoshop.

I created these portraits without photoshop, the effects were produced in-camera.
They originated out of necessity, out of curiosity, or more often than not just from a lucky mistake.

I've displayed photographs at Gallery 788 for the past five years. A requirement of showing work at the gallery is being present for a shift during your one month show. The gallery director, Eduardo Rodriguez told me I could do anything, and use the gallery however I wanted for my "shift". I decided to create a multimedia show, and I named it Instant Gratification.

The show, a recurring variety show, has featured many of the most talented performers, artists, musicians, magicians, poets and filmmakers in Baltimore.

I'm lucky because my desire to document artists with a camera has given me a list of people to draw from for the show. The most recent version of the show was in December 2012, it was the first Instant Gratification benefit for two Baltimore Artists who suffered heart attacks during the year and only survived because of CPR. The show contained the normal mix of artists, but to honor it's purpose, I also had a CPR trainer do a demonstration at the show. Like my job at Catholic Relief Services, it was gratifying to be able to use my talent in order to raise money for the artists. I plan on using the Instant Gratification Multimedia show format as a benefit again in the future.

If you'd like to see a review of the Heart Benefit show go here:
http://whatweekly.com/2012/12/13/instant-gratification-2/

These portraits were shot in Baltimore, I'll leave it at that.

Artists, musicians, writers. All of these images were published in What Weekly magazine.

I met Marie Maccabee while hanging a gallery show in 2009. She told me she was an outdoor survival
expert trained in animal tracking and stalking. She also told me she prepared hides, built survival structures, and knew all about indigenous plants and animals.
I was fascinated and wanted to know more.

Since 2010 i've been published in over one hundred issues of What Weekly Magazine. I was the magazines first contributor. My main contribution has been photo essays, but I've also written several articles to accompany my photos. my favorite "combo" pieces are artist profiles. You can see the collection here:
http://whatweekly.com/author/philip-laubner/

Objects and Mask's is a black and white portraiture study, an off-beat look into the nature of love and identity.