Color and Contrast - Introspection and Rebirth
I got my bachelors of arts degree in cinematography and visual filmmaking. It’s a passion I chose to follow and one that has been an important facet of my life for some time.
Between the shattering realization of the current status of the film indsutry and my own experiences on sets of varying professionalism, it was ultimately something that I felt I had lost my taste for. However, my time spent as a Director of Photography greatly informed my approach to crafting images and telling stories visually, and I think a lot of my photography shows that.
This last weekend I had the pleasure to join two friends of mine, both very talented filmmakers, on a small artistic retreat in Ohio along the shore of Lake Erie. What began, perhaps, as a way to simply get out of the city became an inward search that I didn’t realize I needed to go on.
The photos I have posted here are part of a much larger project that I will likely publish at a later date. Suffice to say, this curated selection is a quicker exploration of this idea of rebirth that I think I have been skating around for awhile.
After this weekend, I feel drawn toward film again, approaching storytelling through moving pictures once more. I will always relish in the sense of individuality that photography provides, the sort of private internal course that drives so much of my work in stills-shooting. That being said, I am eager to dust off the rust and start working in video once more.
Many of these images were exported in both color and black and white. I have always enjoyed black and white for it’s veer toward the abstract, its focus put on shape and contrast of light and shadow. I think there is much to be gained from creating limitations in one’s work and taking away the element of color does just that for me.
I look forward to seeing where this newfound inspiration will take me. Naturally this blog will keep everyone along for the journey ahead.
Cheers.
