In Tandem : BCXSY

BCXSY is a collaboration between Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto. Currently based in the Netherlands, the Israeli and Japanese couple met in Holland and started BCXSY (a clever combination of their initials) in January 2007. A combination of art and design, the two mix function, aesthetic and emotion in their hand-crafted work.

Destilled Nature

Being partners in life and work could indeed cause many complications, but we believe that through common care for each other it is possible to join our forces and create something which can be even greater than the work of a single person.

Little Bird

Inspiration can be, and is found at anytime, anywhere and in anything, and our challenge is to recognize it and be able to bring it into our work. Passion is essential too - it allows us to fully follow what we believe in - our professional decisions are often based on our feelings towards our work, and we believe that this is eventually expressed as a personal character of the end result, which can create a stronger bond between the product and its owner.


Napkin Placement
all images © BCXSY
interview from Drome Magazine

Farm Contacts

Some quick farmer portraits off of our contact sheets from our latest shoot upstate for Code Magazine. Mind the quality and markings.


Kevin, Regeneration CSA


Lindsey, One Earth Farm


Jacob, Esopus Creek Farm

Made it to Jersey, Missed NY

Atlantic City, NJ
© Zoe Strauss

Last week was the anticipated NY Photo Festival which we shamefully missed for a second time, but were surprised to learn from other photo blogs that we may not have missed much? We promise ourselves to make it out next year when we should be NYC residents once more. Made it back last week for a few days, but ended up in Atlantic City instead of NYC for some family fun at the casinos and boardwalk. We haven't been to Atlantic City in years, maybe even more than a decade. Though much has changed, the overall seediness lingered. The fancy Borgata can't hide the reality of its inhabitants nor the surrounding neighborhoods you drive through just to get there. It was tons of fun and felt as if we were transported to another place and time, almost like a virtual reality tour through Zoe Strauss' America.

Dollar General

Been seeing a whole lot of these lately as we've been moving nothing but Dollar General product these past few days. Literally moving as we've also had to unload the truck....poor James! This discount variety chain store is usually found in small towns not quite big enough for a Walmart. It's been a crazy drive on back roads, through mountains, in small rural areas with populations less than 1,000. It's a nice break from the busy interstates, showing us how town folk really live and that the small town feeling has yet to be vanquished by popular culture and indulgent consumerism.

The Telephone Chair

We've almost hit our year mark trucking and are already thinking about building our new nest. Our 6'x6' apt on wheels has given us our fix of claustrophobia. Here is the one and only piece of furniture we own and recently acquired. Who knows when and where we'll end up, but you can't live without a telephone chair!! Oh, the good ol' days when you actually had to stay put and have a real conversation.

Sun/Moon Roof

'through our windshield'

Countryside

'through our windshield'