Category archives: process
The Clarity of Distance
The importance of making room for time in your creative process. continue reading
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about nurturing creativity
I found this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert to be brilliant and inspired. I think any person who has ever struggled with the creative impulse will understand exactly what she is talking about.
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Outer Lands at one month
An early look at my photographic project “Outer Lands”. continue reading
Body of Work
To follow up on yesterday’s post, I wanted to explore the concept of the “body of work” a bit more, especially questions I still have about defining a project, sharing work-in-progress, and knowing when you’re done. On Conscientious yesterday, Jörg talked a bit about how he experiences art, specifically in the context of comparing new work to previous work from the same artist. He uses the body of work as a way to distinguish the new from the old. Books or gallery shows are an easy way to think about this: Uncommon Places is clearly a single, cohesive body of work. Every image is related to every other image in some way or another, they explore the same themes, and there is a point where Shore said to himself “I am done with this work, I am ready to send it out into the world.”
Editing
It’s a topic that has been discussed a million times, but just for my own sake I’ll say it again: editing is hard. It might be the most difficult thing we, as photographers, have to do. It’s a long process that starts before we even take our first picture and continues right up until we finally decide that the work is complete. And then, more than likely, you shuffle things around one more time for good measure.