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Looking at Tim Davis and Mitch Epstein

Tim Davis - McDonald's Fragment
Mitch Epstein - BP Carson Refinery, California 2007

Social Landscapes

Clarity at Last

I have found that it takes the exact opposite approach to creating art than what I have been disciplined to do for the past four to six years to attain any clarity for my own projects, post college. I have been photographing, when I have the time on weekends, things that I am oddly attracted to, but for no particular reason other than the subject is somehow drawn to me. Mostly mundane elements of a society that most tend to ignore. I often think, why the hell am I attracted to this, why am I taking its picture. These questions were never the basis of any of my college projects, in which I would have to formulate an idea and then go out and find something to objectify my idea. Its taken a year or more, of photographing with only a slight idea of what I was looking at to allow my images to produce an idea for me, so that I can follow its threads to whatever direction it will take me. My god it feels nice to have final started to put these visual threads into somewhat of a web that I can begin to fill out. Im just beginning to realize how much potential these pieces of the puzzle could amount to, and I am so excited to have found a means of working and seeing that can lead me in new directions that even I had not the faintest idea as to where it could go next. I finally have a greater sense of clarity!

Newer Work....

I Have a Job!

Yeah, finally I have a job again. I was searching for what felt like forever. Nobody was responding and if they did, chances were that they would turn me away because I had a college education.....It was such a bitch! They all thought that I would drop them at a drop of a hat to pursue a better job, which was probubly right, but I am pretty desperate for money. Also I think that they thought I would ask for a better pay. But I finally had 2 responces, 1 was the dollar treee, which I worked at for 3 days and quit cause I hated it, and there was a weird reverse racism I felt. But I stayed with the offer from Giant Foods. Its not bad, boring as hell, but I dont have to stand in a 1 foot by 1 foot cash register for 8 hours a day. They also have free internet!!! But in better news my other boss called me back to work at the photography lab in august, so Ill juggle these 2 part timers. Anyway I gotta clock in soon, oh joy!

Going Back To Black and White!!!

Ah like a long lost friend, it feels so good to be printing black and white again. I just feel so natural working with it, my excursion into color was different and im going to continue with it on my family self portrait project but I think my other emerging project works best in b&w. Other than working on photography these days Im feelin pretty useless, this whole unemployment bit is not all its cracked up to be, I really just want my old job back at the photo lab. So if that doesnt happen in the next week I might as well compromise my ideals and end up working some menial service industry job. On the up side I have been going on relatively free vacations with my family and soon to be leaving with my girlfriends family for the beach. Ive spent an amazing week in Charlotte NC and I have a bunch of good shots of my family especially my sisters kid, he's so cute so Ill be posting more color pics of them. Currently im sitting at Festiva Laundry using there free internet while I wait, how glamorous right, but im poor and this is practical. Any how Ill try to update more often perhaps once a week with the laundry?