Street Scenes 2

Allen Street Walkway

Once again it has been far too long since my last blog update. Unfortunately I have been feeling overwhelmed with various projects and in particular the documentary about New York that I have been working on for the last year. I knew that becoming a filmmaker would be difficult, but I think I still underestimated the amount of work that goes into making a finished project, even a fairly simple documentary. However, the progress has been increasing as Ive learned the intricacies of editing, and my background in music production is finally paying some dividends with the score and manipulating audio to help with transitions.

10th Street & Broadway

The photography is a constant, however. I don’t think I will ever quit street photography in my life. There might be times when I will take breaks or am unable to shoot, but I am in love with the process of shooting on the streets of New York as much as I was when I first began shooting around 4 years ago – maybe even more so. My style is evolving, hopefully in the right direction, but I don’t think I will ever be comfortable with one particular genre. I am a street shooter who loves architecture, a landscape photographer who loves street art, a portrait photographer who loves the abstract and diffuse, etc. This probably comes at great annoyance to those who would have me stick to one thing or just focus on one subject. That’s fine. I’ll try to break up my work into different posts for your benefit, but I can’t break up myself, so don’t ask me to.

Driggs Ave

As a photographer you only get to decide what a photograph means for yourself. For each and every viewer, they need to make their own assessment. Try as we might, we don’t get to decide what a photograph or a series means for the viewer. They have to decide for themselves. This is an uncomfortable relationship, but also one which has been written about endlessly so I will not digress further into it, other than to say this:

The meaning of life is suffering. I don’t show suffering.