October 2009
7 posts
I'm in love.
For some reason, I had never seen this work by Gerhard Richter before. When I came across it last week on a blog, I was blown away. Enough said.
Amazing
but does it float
Friday, October 16, 2009
Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2007
I think I need to go to Russia to photograph. Russia, and Germany. In the winter.
on loneliness
The ideas from my undergrad thesis were largely about loneliness and my inability to properly explain and define what that word has meant to me throughout my life. Our loneliness—both as individuals and as members of a larger society—still interests me greatly, so I was quite happy to come across this interview from The Believer magazine. There are a lot of interesting ideas discussed,...
Dream Songs
“Soth attributes his mid-western upbringing to a sensibility that is more ‘dark and lonely’ than optimistic. He referred me to the poet John Berryman, who leapt to his death from a Mississippi River bridge in January of 1972. Soth particularly noted Berryman’s ‘Dream Song 1’ and its last line, ‘and empty grows every bed.’ Most of the beds in...
Press
Here’s a review of the Emerging Philadelphia Photographers show I am in at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. There are some kind and insightful words about my photographs, as well as ones about some of the other artists.