"Photographs are not really ‘documentary’ in the way we assume them to be. They are biopic only in the sense that they are a starting point for the reinvention of the truth of our lives..."
Indeed, memories are rarely ‘photographic’ and I think that photographs rarely ever represent the past to us as it really was. They represent even less the meaning of past times and places in our contemporary lives.
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"In 2017 I managed to reinvent myself in middle age and take my life in a completely new direction, despite working outside the established community of fine art photography..."
Writing a retrospective celebrating successes is a great way of reminding one’s self of all one has accomplished in a short period of time, even when there’s so much more to do...
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"When I visit the buffalo, I can’t help but remember the many days of my childhood spent acting out dreams of the Old West. Like any intelligent child with an active imagination, I did more than play; I dwelt in my fantasies..."
I was born a cowgirl (although when I was really little I would have thought of myself as a cowboy). Seriously, I’m pretty sure I emerged from the womb wearing a fringed, suede vest and cowboy hat...
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"Although I believe that viewers sense emotion and intensity in these photographs, I think you must know what was happening in my life in late 2012 and what I was seeking at Red Rocks to fully appreciate what these images communicate about me..."
Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent some of my spare time locating, editing and curating a number photographs I took in Colorado back in December 2012. These images have sat dormant and unappreciated for the last five years, although they have moved from one hard drive, to the cloud, to another hard drive, and then back to the cloud again over that span of time.
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"Our mission was two-fold: capture some pleasing images of the last of the colorful leaves of Autumn and track down some of the big beasts at home on the LBTL bison range..."
The LBTL was the location that offered our best chance of experiencing beautiful golden fields and placid lakes and ponds surrounded by foliage in a broad spectrum of colors. The area is 170,000 acres of forest, fields, lakes, and ponds
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"Photographic projects, like mine, that embrace nostalgia may originate from highly personal motivations, but they are always interpreted and understood within a larger cultural, social, and political context..."
Viewing a photograph can spark powerful feelings of nostalgia that well up from our embodied memories of sense of place. Indeed, photos have been an important means of propagating nostalgic social movements since the invention of photography itself...
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