So the first time I picked up a camera was nearly 4 years ago. I bought a Nikon D50 with the extra cash I had from selling drugs for Pfizer (yeah I was a drug dealer). I had a passion for the imagery and artistry that photography brought but never had the money for film. When I found I could shoot all I wanted via digital, I salivated at the opportunity.
Like a kid with a new puppy, I fell in love with my SLR. I slept with it, carried it everywhere with me and sought to fuse my mind with the machinery in my hand. Essentially, I became the camera. Once I mastered the mechanics of the shutter speed and aperture, I was able to tell my story through the ultimate lens (the eye).
Like a shapeless being, I floated through my surroundings and became the fly on the wall on the subways, through the gardens, and in the concrete jungle of DC. The year 2006 marked a turning point in my life where I fell in love with a form of expression that I cherish to this day.
So flash-forward 4 years, 7 countries and hundreds of images that are timepieces of my progression as a human being. This is the year that I will host my first show and I want to take you along the journey with me. I had the opportunity to have a sit-down discussion with a phenomenal photographer friend of mine Tara who I have known since college. She is a genius when it comes to the art and has a keen eye for how to market the expression of photography that helps the art transcend to new levels.
Right now I am going through the process of boiling down my work to a body of work. Its such a violent process for me because its causing me to systematically disassemble what I think my work is about to recreate a stream of thought that ties the work together. It takes a non-objective mindset and a willingness to destroy an original image and mindset in order to rebuild a message of uniqueness.
Today, I went through hundreds of my photos and picked some of my favorites. There is no consistency in the work, just a grouping of images that are most striking to me. The next step is to decide who I am as an artist and then chose the images that best represent me…
this is my journey…
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“There is no consistency in the work, just a grouping of images that are most striking to me.” This could not be further from the truth. Every time we peer through the viewfinder (or not) we are registering something that we connected with at a primal level. Your work is good, your eye is compelling. Thank you for allowing me in to share your vision. . . bgs20100720.