These are some shots from my walk today that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to. And with this collection of images is the first time I’ve really sat down to think about how some of my academic neuroses have translated themselves into my photography process. Craig Simmonds is a photographer I’ve been following for years, and I have really been appreciating his self-reflective work talking through parts of his own image creation and collection patterns in terms of culling things, or recognizing that not every photograph can serve the purpose you are trying to make it serve. Maybe this is hard for me because of how materially-focused my brain is, and iphone photography edges into the zone of the immaterial in a lot of ways for me.
photo 1: I discovered in the past week that the best collection of archived images of cincy is the archive of industrial documentation of water works in the public library’s photography collection
photo 2: roofscape I want to reshoot
photo 3: a nod to Craig’s current project dealing with advertisement/consumerism + my own interests (the plaque!)