Impermanence
I try to shoot with as much instinct and as little brain as possible. Simon once told to me think of it like zen archery, and the metaphor stuck. I try to capture and forget, leaving undeveloped rolls around for weeks or months before I see anything. It helps me stay present in life.
Much fun comes from developing a month’s worth of images in an evening or two. Most shots I have forgotten. Sometimes captured there are whole evenings that I hadn’t thought of since, people, conversations, walks I had taken. I’ve also learned to use the photos to figure out what’s really been on my mind recently. It’s a journal of sorts, and the images tend to make more sense from a bit of distance than they did in the moment.
There are many ends and beginnings in the near future for me… travel, transition, acceptance of imperfections and incompletions. Based on my last batch of film I guess these are the things that have been running through my head lately.
June 16, 2011