Unseen

There’s a central theme in my mind that drives much of my more artsy work: the unseen.

I started an abstract project a few months ago based on this concept, and this is part two of that project. This is probably going to be something that I continue to develop, but I thought I’d bring you along on the journey in the meantime.

Here, I photograph the physical world, but in a way that prompts viewers to ask questions about what they’re looking at and what there is beyond the small frame of what they can see. In these images, I photograph the body, focusing the work on humanity…. The rest is for your own reflection…

I don’t know what the general response to these will be. Maybe they’re not really your cup of tea, or maybe they move you somehow. It’s actually okay either way. To be honest, I really have no idea if they’re “good” or not.

But there’s this temptation in photography to do what we know will be accepted. To recreate images that we’ve seen before and that we can be fairly confident that people will like. I’m familiar with the struggle – I fight it all the time. I can do the expected and the safe, but that’s not really enough for me. I’m bored with images that everyone’s done before and seen before. I want to create work that’s deeper and more meaningful to me. But that, my friends, is risky. These images may work, or they may not. Some people might not care for them at all – others may love them. But either way, they’re the product of going beyond what I know and doing something more personal, and that’s something I think is always worthwhile.