Ongoing Projects
These projects represent either obsessions of mine or the naturally ongoing projects for any photographer who works with people or the street, such as portraits.
The street photography shows my vision as I move through my daily life. Rock Climbing shows how I've begun to bring my camera along for climbs since 2019, even though I've been climbing since 2011. My tree portraits are just that; when I'm stopped yet moved by a tree I see I let it shake and hold me, and I capture it for a moment forever.
In Declining Invisibly, Ecologies Slow I'm trying to
Fool's Errands are the misclicks from film rolls, the accidental waste of celluloid turned to abstraction. My efforts to, primarily, use a film camera feel like Quixote jousting at windmills, principled, passionate, and absurd. Absurd because I've broadly lived just barely under the heel of capitalism, that is keeping my overhead as low as possible so I can work as little as possible, and live as much as possible. Absurd because the costs of film, development, scanning, storage, increase it seems monthly. Absurd because it's so much easier, and cheaper, to use my phone or my digital camera. Absurd because it's so much slower, both to take a photo and to get it back, in this age of information hyperhighways.
And in Little Screens I give a tease of what is possibly my biggest project, and which has expanded into another project. What is it? I still don't really know. An update on Lee Friedlander's "Little Screens," a critique of the ubiquitous of phones, an exploration of the body language of phone users, a commentary on the rapidly expanding post-modern digital era? Or just an obssession?
- JK, 08/07/2023 London, UK
