New Work!

As promised(for like a year now), these images are from the series I have been working on the past few months. For a long time, I've focused on refining the concept behind this new work, and it has taken me a while to actually begin making the images. These are just the beginning, of hopefully a large series.

These photographs examine the delicate balance between a person's emotions about their own life. The fabric represents the everyday: the things, people, places, and tasks that face us on a daily level. In one sense, we are complacent and satisfied with our comfortable routine, and the things we let define us. At any given time, however, we find ourselves struggling with what it is that we do, and how it makes us feel. The duality between the contentment and the struggle is something I think many people feel often, and throughout their entire lives.

The same person appears in both sides of the photograph to represent the sometimes, Jekyll and Hyde lives we lead. Because their identities are concealed and lost within the fabric, their personal environments become yet another way to define them.

In two of the images, I used a mannequin in place of a human model. I wanted the opportunity to experiment with an inanimate object that I could project these emotions onto, and somehow show that she could "feel" them too. Her surroundings are generic to expose her placeless and voiceless existence, yet her ability to be given human characteristics.

Still working on these. Feel free to give me feedback. Also, if you're up for modeling, let me know!

Thanks

Outtakes

I realize it has been about 6 months since I've posted anything on here, but believe it or not, I have been photographing! Not all of it has been my own personal work, of course, but I have been keeping quite busy. I have in fact started a new series of personal work that I am excited about. Those photos will take some time to show up on here since I would like them to be as "finished" as possible before I get feedback. I have continued photographing for The Color of Energy Gallery, various dance companies and the Ohio Farm Bureau.

These two photos I'm posting are what I think the magazine will consider "outtakes" from my most recent shoots, but they are my favorites. Examining the in-between, breather moments of an individual has always been of interest to me and a major foundation of my work. In these couple of shots, I could physically see these busy farmers exhale, and relax for one split second, which from what I gather, is rare for them. More to come soon...ish.

Little Moos

Well once again my personal photo work has fallen to the wayside. Working retail full time for the holiday season has been keeping me more than busy. I did, however, land a freelance job with the Ohio Farm Bureau photographing for their magazine, "Our Ohio". My first assignment was to go to a farm in Amelia,Ohio where they raise miniature cattle and photograph for an upcoming story. I had no idea what to expect, but it ended up being a lot of fun, despite the bad weather. The animals were as friendly as their names (Frank, Abe, Scarlet, etc.)as well as the hobby farming couple. Here are a few shots from the farm. Enjoy.

Lost & Found

Still Searching

Since I graduated, I have been doing a lot of photographing, but only a small amount of that has been my own conceptual work. My goal for the fall and winter is to change that. I'm struggling to streamline my ideas and find new ways for my photographs to speak. Everything seems harder when you're on your own, in all aspects of life, and my work is feeling those effects. I'm beginning to scrape the surface of where I want my work to go with these last two entries. However, I find it incredibly hard to work with myself as a model since a lot of my work is rooted in the observation of those around me. Until I can organize my concept enough to not waste someone else's time, I will have to work with myself. Bear with me, hopefully there's more to come.

I start to feel Mortality surround me

View from my Pillow