funny you should post, rob

funny you should post rob. i've been thinking about analogue and my general photo experience lately and was planning on coming up with something to say.


i was going to ask you guys if you can think of larger themes in which my trip to africa could fit. it seems to me the work SHOULD be able to say something about a bigger picture. ie HIV/AIDS, hope, survival, how positivity can bring great change, nutrition, common binding factors for unrelated people.

any ideas? i'd love to process this trip in a way that could serve / be served my analogue.



speaking of that, i was just thinking about my roll as a photographer and where i fit in the larger scene of the arts.

i just got in a few books and one was just various photos by various people, one of whom was Angela Boatwright. seeing her work always reminds me of two things. Anthem (the magazine) in which she was featured within issue 6 (its on issue 37 now) and vaguely related/unrelated to this old photo board i used to post to called the paper brigade. its long since dried up, but i loved the idea of interacting with other people who were good at what they did though hadnt yet hit it yet. one person who posted some back then was jeremy weiss of day19 who, with his wife, has certainly gone on to be seemingly successful.

anyway....in this book i see work thats good and fresh and i see no reason why i dont fit within it, at least in terms of style. this of course made me think about if my work is "fresh" anymore and other such lovely thoughts, but more importantly, it made me wonder about how i am connected, or rather, totally DISconnected from the photo world i used to participate in so readily. flickr has that to some degree but at the same time it doesnt. the paper brigade was people posting photos for fun to a forum, getting feedback, crit, asking questions..that kind of thing.

living where i do doesnt help the feeling of being marginalized by my contemporaries but the bigger issue is that i dont exist. not really. i dont live in LA, SF, NY. i live in alabama. i live in alabama and post in alabama and talk to people from here.

i want to branch out, even if i stay here.


i had another conversation while over in uganda about contemporary art and about how i loathe matthew barney and how the person i was talking to at the very least appreciates him and that of course led to how ignorant i am to the current scene and where NOW fits into art history and why why why and context this and blah blah blah blah.

just another reminder that i need to plug in. i've got the work, but no one sees it.










so there is that. reply. i guess this is addressed to rob, as i cant imagine bob even reads this. little bitch.