What am I photographing? Why? What for? Who sees these images? Do they ever leave my possession? Does it matter if anyone sees them? Where do I go from here? What does life after art school look like? Will I ever take another photograph again?
As these thoughts are swirling through my head I know deep within my soul that there is creativity and desire running through my blood. I will always be a photographer no matter what I am doing in my life.
Currently I am learning how to use a 8x10 large format camera, this at one point in time was the 'standard image'. Many well know photographers whose work I love such as Ansel Adams, Sally Mann, Richard Avedon, Tina Barney, William Eggleston, Paul Strand, and Stephen Shore. As I think about photography throughout time and what it means for me now as a young artist pursuing a path that has been walked many times I realize that most things might have already been done or photographed, but I can do it in such a way that changes lives, perception, visual experience, understanding of a subject matter, and grounding photography in its history. As I develop the 8x10 negatives and make prints I will be archiving them digitally for storage purposes. I am working on a project now that encompasses the community in which I live and extends on into the way people do life with their surroundings.
Celtic Corner
(Not part of the project I am starting to make work for, although it is the first large format photograph I have ever taken!)
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