Pushing Farther

The images below represent the bulk of my sustained inquiry refocusing on this series after my last meeting with André. Picking up this body of work and breathing new life and energy into it gives me great enthusiasm. My other work with the time lapse feels more like an intellectual drill, fruitful yes, but as I pursue the series below, I know that it was birthed from solely my own personal experience and history of exploring the medium of photography. The nature of the work is experimental. I am searching for a particular look, feeling and pathos. Of the many tens of thousands of images that I took the ones below get at what I am seeking to express.

I brought these prints 13x19" to my next mentor meeting and we discussed what was working and what visual language I want to speak with the image. André encouraged me to look at the series for diptychs that have a certain continuity between images. He felt that the images that are working the best are the ones that move past being photographic into the realm of transmedia. My hope is to bring some of the past work together with these new images and produce more to complete a solid large format series that I can then exhibit. While I am closing in on a cohesive series, I still want to continue to experiment and open myself up to the new discoveries.

Putting it all together to pull something out

The next specific assignment André gave me was to look and my image archives and find individual images that represent documentary/external and then find images that represent the internalized search and put them together to create new meanings and visual language. I wrote before about the seemingly divided avenues of my work. Looking back on the images that I made over a decade ago before working as a commercial photographer, it felt like I had a much more cohesive vision. I then gathered images, finding ways to combine the disparate intentions into new relationships.
Captain, Ghost Ship, Water's light.

 Lupeni, Romania

 Student's Struggle; Santiago, Chile

Home After Katrina

Boston Marathon, Before the Explosions

Given a Voice, Chile.

It was in this group of images that I pulled together some recent cityscape work.

 André responded to these images more than the collages as a whole. He felt like this was the work that I should engage in a more sustained focused way. It brings together a lot of the issues around exploring the mechanics of photography in new ways. For the rest of the semester, I am going to focus on producing more images for the "City Spirit" series.