This last semester of my sophomore year, I found myself really uninspired with my work. I typically photograph people and I felt that I wanted to shy away from that for awhile as people are unreliable and uninspiring sometimes.

Ever since I can remember, I have struggled with sleep. My mind goes wild when the sun goes down and this is when I find a lot of my inspiration. I find myself struggling with sleep and my own head even more recently. So, I decided I would use these hours and photograph. This was sort of a way for me to get out of my own head, drive into the darkness, into areas I wasn’t familiar with, get lost. I was told I should try and bring someone with me on these 3am drives, put a figure into the scenes. I tried this, it wasn’t the same. These hours are mine, time for me to clear my head and be alone in this darkness that is so unfamiliar when the sun goes down.

Solitude;this is the word my professor used during the critique of this work. It is the perfect word for this series, this time in my life. I have never been so happy with my own work as I was with this series. It is the first time a body of work has meant so much and portrayed such a significant time for me.

And here I am, writing this at 3:12am, wide awake. Not sure if any of this is making any sense…it does to me but to anyone else? I don’t think it needs to necessarily, make sense to anyone but me. That’s the beauty of art right?

{these are all print scans on a dirty scanner, scanned negatives of the rest of the series will be uploaded soon}

So I realized I have really shitty print scans…so here are some of what I have been working on.

These were all shot with my Mamiya 6x7, processed, and made into c prints.

project description in the next photo set.

EASTER obnoxiousness :)