Been taking some of the lessons I pick up from shooting models and applying them to my family. Magdalena is 1.5 years going on 30 here.
Anyways I was digging through my archives, looking for other people images I could work up alongside the stuff I've been shooting over the last month, and there's something strange that happens to artists when they go through their old material-- they think it is all complete crap. I didn't see anything that I could rework. Which I guess is good, shows that my style isn't a gimmick that you could stick on any picture, it is a style with a set kind of mood. There are certain themes I think about in my head quite a bit... the fact that our identities are fluid, sometimes it is a good thing-- being able to become anyone you want to be, learning any talent if you apply yourself hard enough-- and other times it is a bad thing, where we become faceless cogs in society, corporate drones or even just another person looking to score sex or drugs or dollars, whatever you are willing to give bits of yourself away. So, going along with that theme is the future-- what identity you have now, and what you want it to be in the future. I do want to do a series on this kind of work, and I'm keeping this in the back of my head with all the people I'm photographing over the next two weeks.
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