Raison D'Être

Raison D’Être | The Reason to Exist

There’s a particular kind of light that is the reason I photograph. It’s a visceral, surreal light that serves as a vessel for containing life. It is a glimpse of what one would like to remember – what one may be trying to hold onto.

Project One

Scan Work, 2015

Drifters

Drifters

Final One Page Wonder

Color Profiles

One Page Wonders

Ode to Summer

Landforms

Light Study

Book Research

BOOK RESEARCH

Hello Nature by William Wegman

Whistle For the Wind by Ryan McGinley

Big Up by Ben Watts

I'm most definitely a hoarder of artist books. I've chosen to present one of the very first art books I ever purchased, a book with the work of one my biggest inspirations, and a book that has really intrigued me with its uniqueness and style. William Wegman is a diversely talented painter, photographer, and illustrator. I've grown up seeing his work, and to now own Hello Nature is such a treat. I think stylistically and formally, it is where I would most like to go with the direction of my own book. Ryan McGinley's Whistle For the Wind holds some of my favorite works by him. Its layouts are clean and filled with full spread images and simple captions. I'm most attracted to this book for its content and ability to always ensue inspiration. Lastly, I've brought in Big Up by Ben Watts. I love its collaged aesthetic and full page bleeds, not to mention the sensory overload of awesome portraits.

Hello Nature

William Wegman

 

Whistle For the Wind

Ryan McGinley

Big Up
Ben Watts

Project One // Scans

Diptych

Past Work // Future Aspirations

Past Work & Future Aspirations

Brinkley Capriola

Inspiration :: Richard Mosse

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 I started photographing and working in the darkroom at fourteen, eventually falling for digital photography as well. Analog and digital are distinctly different mediums; trying to merge the two has held my interest for quite awhile. I am enamored by people and nature and their interaction with light. I photograph to enable myself to look back on my life, and to do it in a way that is as genuine and authentic as possible. Photography, for me, is about having the intuition to document the beautiful and even cinematic moments that may not always present themselves as such. It takes a genuine appreciation and intrigue for the world to look for those moments and to find them in the obscurity and chaos that we are so typically surrounded in. I want to make photographs that are evocative and fluid, imagery that holds the possibility of truly resonating with an audience and overwhelming them with nostalgia and inspiration. I want my work to do exactly that; it’s really all I could ask for as an artist.

I have so many photographic influences, but right now I'm very interested in the work of Richard Mosse. He is a conceptual documentary photographer. I recently went to The Enclave at the Portland Art Museum. I still feel like I'm trying to fully take in that experience. If you haven't yet seen the exhibit, I HIGHLY recommend it! It is a body of work shot entirely on aerochrome film, which was made in the 1940s by the U.S. military for camouflage detection. It was designed for the sole purpose of making the invisible, visible; and in this same way, Richard Mosse's documentation of the ongoing conflict in the Congo brought this overlooked humanitarian disaster to the surface of a mass audience. That in itself is one of the most brilliant and specific parallels of photographic medium to subject I've seen. He's done a lot of incredible work over the years, and serves as a huge inspiration for me.