Journal
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Remembering and Forgetting
I have avoided photography during the pandemic. For me, photography is about remembering, not forgetting, and I want to forget the COVID-19 pandemic. I have slowly started to get back to work. One of the photos I took to symbolize this period was of a newspaper box, photographed on January…
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The Heartist
I was conspicuously taking pictures when he appeared out of nowhere and asked if he could take mine. “Of course,” I said. His face was set in an impish grin so I wasn’t sure of his intent but I was intrigued. He gestured towards my camera. I responded, “No, with… -
Printing Matters
I spent time recently printing a few Black & White photographs, cutting a mat, and framing my favorite image from 2018 and I was reminded just how much it matters to make prints. Some shots are destined to be images whereas others do not fully come into their own until…
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Instamatic
The first camera that I ever operated and used to successfully take a picture was an old forgotten Kodak Instamatic that I found buried in a closet in my childhood home. It used a 110 film cartridge and flashcubes. The later were used sparingly in my family and it was… -
Blurred Lines
There is an unhealthy fixation with sharpness in photographs today. Mostly because it is quite easy to make sharp images with digital tools. And people like it. Hyper-reality is the ascendant aesthetic of our time. Consider this gallery resistance to this hegemony.I used the stabilization feature of the Olympus Em5…