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.