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01/10/2016 07:53:10 PM · #26 |
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01/10/2016 08:01:48 PM · #27 |
Hello. I like to shoot people. Also animals. In Spanish. I can't speak Spanish, though, so most of what happens when I'm shooting is incomprehensible to me.
My lack of verbal skills in the Spanish language began in early childhood, at the same time my grandmother gave me a little camera for my birthday. She died shortly afterward & in my young mind death, Spanish, & photography became forever linked.
In my high school years, my parents let me set up a small darkroom in the laundry room. A large cabinet had to be cleaned out first, & in the back of this cabinet was an old, unopened bottle of tequila wrapped on Christmas paper. This was a mystery, as neither of my parents drank. That bottle perhaps explains my lifelong passion for film photography.
My first photo to win anything came in first at the state fair, a composition titled "We're All Ears." My Mom cut the article out of the newspaper & put it up on the fridge, where it kept pride of place for years.
Message edited by author 2016-01-10 20:03:25. |
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01/10/2016 08:58:45 PM · #28 |
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01/10/2016 08:59:25 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by bvy:
Originally posted by skewsme:
shooting is one thing you do. how do the other things you do (or experience) affect how you shoot...?
i.e. do any of those other things either inform your shooting or inspire a rebelliousness?
provide examples. stories if possible. do not avoid embellishments. drop a crumb or two. |
Thanks, c. Those are good thinking exercises. I'm thinking maybe a short anecdote from my experiences shooting on the street. And building from there. Or not. |
why are you asking us anyway |
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01/10/2016 09:21:20 PM · #30 |
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01/10/2016 09:38:19 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
why are you asking us anyway |
He must have a show of some sort. Or a wandering street poet asked for his Artist's Statement. In Spanish, while drinking from a bottle of tequila. |
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01/10/2016 10:26:24 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
why are you asking us anyway |
It's a "required field" for a juried show that I'm submitting work to (to which I'm submitting work). I was looking for ideas and inspiration. Or just some comic relief from the writer's block. |
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01/11/2016 01:08:59 AM · #33 |
| Aha! I think I'm beginning to understand a bit about artists' statements. Maybe they all ask for help. |
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01/11/2016 09:45:40 AM · #34 |
I like the wandering street poet theory best so far.....in Spanish.....and with apologies to Jeff Dunham, "On a steek!".
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