Hello World!
It feels a little strange to be writing so publicly, the internet is a big place. This is actually one of my biggest struggles with photography. Taking something that’s personal and making it available for the world to see is intimidating. Being seen always feels risky to me.
Fear is really powerful and it can be paralyzing. The photos in this post are from 2014. I took a really great photography class at the Armory for the Arts and it was the first time that technical aspects of photography really started to make sense to me. I was shooting black and white film, experimenting with shadows and light and doing lots and lots of double exposures. I loved taking photos and wanted to keep doing it. I even mustered up the courage to ask two of my friends to pose for me. I spent so much time thinking about all the ideas I had for images to make.
But then I just couldn’t move forward. I had hit a bad string of personal obstacles and that took a toll on my confidence. I wanted to take more photos so badly but I was too scared! Too scared to move, too scared to breathe. Too scared to fail so I was too scared to try. That year did end up getting a lot better for me and 2015 saw me spending more and more time with a camera in my hands. At the start of 2018, I made it a goal to just, at least try and it has been so worth it. I feel like photography will be something that I do forever and that makes me so happy.
