Cover pages of my Zine
Awhile back i wrote a blog about being in ruts and how sometimes you just need to photograph to get through it or how sometimes the creativity comes from the process of doing. Well it is the winter time. This is usually the time i feel the most uncreative. It's like there is something about the constant dark and gloomy days that sucks all the energy out of me. It could just be the cold that i hate venturing out in? Whatever it maybe it sucks and i hate it. Well of course i can't not take my own advice right? So what i decided to do was work on a zine.
In all honesty, I have wanted to start a zine for a few months now. I actually came across the idea naturally from looking at some old and recent work. Which on a side note is a good reason to always go back and look at old work. Sometimes you need fresh eyes on old stuff to realize there is something you missed or kind of brushed off.
A page from my Zine.
So after going through some images, I noticed a pattern of images that were shot from the drivers seat of my car. I'm almost 100% sure that there are a bunch of other people that do the same thing i do. Carry you're camera everywhere you go, even while driving and end up taking pictures while driving cause sometimes you just don't or can't stop on the side of the road to take a proper photograph. Well what did i get? A decent amount of work from the inside of my car, but when i say decent it's something around 400 images or so.
Hmm what to do with all these images? Let's create a series out of them. Why do this? Why the fuck not? Realistically i could just let these images sit and never show them at all. Thats not fair to the public right? Well it doesn't really matter what's fair to your audience if you have one.
Seattle Washington
Now I'm not saying you shouldn't care about the community you've created around your bodies of work rather than you shouldn't let your audience dictate the kind of work you do or why you do the work you do. I believe if you did follow a path that someone else dictates for you, you would never get anything done. You're more likely to work on something thats true to you and actually finish it. So here is it. A few images from an upcoming zine that will be released here shortly.
If you guys have any comments or questions All my contact info is on my website.