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My names David. Just turned 65 and have always shot film, now shoot digital and iPhone as well. I studied photography in college, back then it was all b&w. Ansel, Sally Mann and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. I worked my way through school at a film lab, a factory really. The kind of place drug stores and supermarkets sent their customers film. It was a great job, lots of down time waiting for the trucks to come in with all the envelopes that we would process and get ready for the night shift who would print and then send back out the next morning. While waiting for the trucks and I would often go through the garbage looking at all the reject photos, thousands, tens of thousands. I would shuffle through them like I was dealing cards, looking for the ones that would make me stop. Hundreds I had to save, I still have them, they have become a part of my process. They are not personal like my family photos but also not as distant as say the family photos of Sally Man. They changed the way I thought about making photography, first off, no more black and white. But most importantly I learned something about the power of narrative. Narrative that a viewer brings. Narrative that you can guide and that which you can hope to suggest.
Sorry, didnt mean to write an artist statement, it was just the first thing popped into my head.
Sorry, didnt mean to write an artist statement, it was just the first thing popped into my head.