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This is what Kaitlyn had to say about the photograph she chose:
"My heart lives in brutal, wide open spaces and places. Mountains, deserts, an endless trail snaking away into the horizon, miles from civilization—harsh terrains resonate with me. Winter in Chicago tends to break my spirit, but these snow-capped peaks served as a reminder that even the bitter cold, snow, and ice can be beautiful in the right situation. There’s an optimism here."
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Here's what Jill said about her photo:
"Two things drew me to this photo. The first is the sense of adventure. I love the steep incline, the mountain, the untouched snow. It's the great outdoors. The second thing is that the landscape is shaped like an 'M.' It almost looks man-made. I think there's mystery in that aspect alone. Is it "real" nature? Is it created? Does it matter? We always think human intervention looks a certain way and that nature must be random and irregular, and then we're surprised when nature defies our expectations."
Jill's website:
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Here is what Barbara had to say about her photo:
"As a Chicagoan, born and raised, I was attracted to this image because it's a setting I don't often get to see. The bridge with someone rowing a boat below, people walking along the water, and a forest on the other side- this is how I would typically imagine what Europe would look like. I like that the multiple exposure components allows me to be apart of this place and time."
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Mychelle and I bond over coffee and all things Britpop.
This is what she said about this photo:
If this photograph had a title, it would be: In another time, in another place, perhaps God spoke to me.
When I look at this image, I see longing in my eyes for answers. Answers I wish religion would give me. Of course, I know it won't. I know I have to find them myself, but oh, if only it was easy at that. I've always been drawn to religious architecture, and this image made me long for a simpler time when I didn't question everything, when I said my prayers and drifted off to sleep hopeful that someone greater than me would make everything ok.
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In case you are a Chicagoan, Lykanthea/Lakshmi is playing a show this Saturday at the Hideout!
Here's what she had to say about the photo she chose:
"At this moment in my life, I feel as if I am looking across a snowy plain like the one in this photo to a stark, cold mountain range. After 11 years of living in Chicago, I'm moving to a place where I don't know anyone. I may never come back. Chicago, the people here, its dark, enveloping winters - they have shaped and chiseled me into the person I am.
I'm taking a deep breath for the beautiful, difficult journey ahead."
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Here's what Mark had to say about the photograph he chose:
"Venice is a place to love, listen, talk, eat, drink, stroll and share."
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John had this to say and I agree completely. I always think mountains are an optical illusion even when I was driving up Highway One and trying not to crash the rental car into one.
He said:
"I didn't grow up around mountains so, I find them fascinating. Every time I drive through or fly over them I'm captivated by their beauty. "
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We feel it in our bones...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AoS_7u9eCU
And even on the silent sea
Your constellation carries me
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Jessica is very intelligent and sweet at the same time. She is such a warm person and I always enjoy seeing her. I just know when she is going to the same concert I'm going to that it will be a better concert for her presence.
Here's what she said about her photo:
"For our honeymoon my husband and I went on a wonderful trip to Seattle. This photo reminded me of some of my favorite moments of the trip. We watched a beautiful sunset where neon pink clouds clustered around the base of the mountains. Later we hiked Mount Rainier and I wondered what it would have looked like to turn a corner and see those clouds huddled close together below you. I think they would have looked a lot like this photo. "
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This is the third photo of the N'Oublie Pas series in which I try to redeem a photographer's life after I found a box of discarded photos left to be forgotten at a flea market in Paris. There is something wrong with a whole life of memories forgotten and discarded. Do not forget rectifies this. It says life is worthwhile. We will not forget about eachother.
Erin is a lovely friend of mine. She is someone i always enjoy seeing. She had this to say about the photograph she chose:
"It's a photograph of a group of women with their faces mostly hidden. I could speculate on who they are or why they've come together in front of a camera in their similar hats, but that would be slighting them. They had their own reality and I have mine. And I am, happily, often in groups of women. I find power in our togetherness, in the dreams and fears we share.
There's a line in a poem from Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson that often runs through my head: "It is a photograph he never took, no one here took it." What are all the photographs no one ever took of these women? Or of me and the women I know? Maybe they're memories, or secrets. Different kinds of powerful."
Thanks, Erin.
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(If you live in Chicago and are interested in participating in this project, send me an email.)
Angie and her husband Mark are great fans of experimental art and music and I am very happy I know them! Here's what Angie said about her photograph:
"This photograph reminds me of the romantic landscape paintings of the 19th century. I imagine this could be one of those contemplative views as seen in a Casper David Friedrich painting."
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I asked my mom if she preferred scratchy processing or a more blurred one and she had his to say:
...the past is scratchy and low res...
I like the blurry one better myself but mother knows best, right!
Happy Mother's Day everyone. Make sure the women in your life know you appreciate them!
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Brian is one of my favorite people in this entire world.
He's also as much of a photographer himself as he is an author and when you spend time with him you realize how lucky you are to know such a vital creative soul.
His adventures around the world can be followed here:
Here's what he had to say about his photograph:
"1. THE LONG AND TANGENTIAL THING
There's something super plain and mysterious about this photo. Even among a bunch of other plain and mysterious photos, this one struck me as being somehow more plain and mysterious. There's a raw beauty to it. A symmetry. Nature's doing its thing and humans are doing theirs on top of it. Then one day someone stops to take a photo, and years later we get to look into this little paper box and run wild through the things inside.
So where are we? Is that a church? It looks like one but I'm not sure. I'm not even sure it matters. In fact, I suspect it doesn't. I just enjoy knowing that this small and isolated sign of civilization was once standing right there, where it probably shouldn't have been, and that it may still be standing right there, where it probably shouldn't be, at the base of those mountains, working in tandem with those clouds to guide our thoughts up toward the ether.
But those thoughts all came later. And I doubt they would have come at all had it not been for that giant hand that levels and dissects the frame. At least I think it's a hand. It might not be. Either way, I might not have stopped to consider the rest had I not considered the hand first.
It could be a wing. I've considered that too. And a wing would be pretty good. But I'd still rather believe that it's a hand. Because that's what makes my empathy and imagination run the most wild. It's what brings me closer to the person behind the camera, and to anyone else who may have wandered through that strange space in front of it. It's what connects me most to this thing that is otherwise just a pretty landscape stuffed into a nice box and printed on a nice piece of paper. It still is that. But the hand is what makes it something more than that. I look at the hand and then I start to hear the combined voices of humanity/reason/poetry saying, "Hey, you. You sad ungrateful fool. Wake up. Wake up! You're deeply, deeply connected to all of this you know—these endless tracts of iron and stardust and whatnot—you're a part of it. It's everywhere out there, and it's in you too, and as you age and start to die it's probably better to spend more time tripping out on that than getting lost in the things inside you that feel hopeless and empty, or broken, or dead already, or way too alive. Those things are there for a reason. They serve a purpose. Because, thing is, they can't be fixed. But they can be defied. And that's the important thing right there because, turns out, fixing and defying them? Same thing, basically! But you know that already. You are, after all, sort of talking to yourself right now. So on behalf of you/humanity/reason/poetry, what I'm saying is, 'Wake up! Get back out there! Have some fun and start some trouble! But please stop hitting yourself. You're getting too old for that and time doesn't know or care. Now go! Go go go!'"
But those thoughts all came later too. And I really only stopped on this photo for long enough to consider them because it's plain and mysterious and I really like that big blurry hand(?).
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2. THE (SLIGHTLY LESS) LONG AND TANGENTIAL THING
There's something super plain and mysterious about this photo. Even among a bunch of other plain and mysterious photos, this one struck me as being somehow more plain and mysterious. There's a raw beauty to it. A symmetry. Nature's doing its thing and humans are doing theirs on top of it. And I just enjoy knowing that this small and isolated sign of civilization was once standing right there, where it probably shouldn't have been, and that it may still be standing right there, where it probably shouldn't be, at the base of those mountains, working in tandem with those clouds to guide our thoughts up toward the ether. But those thoughts all came later. And I doubt they would have come at all had it not been for that giant hand that levels and dissects the frame. At least I think it's a hand. It might not be. Either way, I might not have stopped to consider the rest had I not considered the hand first. Because that's what makes my empathy and imagination run the most wild. It's what brings me closer to the person behind the camera, and to anyone else who may have wandered through that strange space in front of it. It's what connects me most to this thing that is otherwise just a pretty landscape stuffed into a nice box and printed on a nice piece of paper. It still is that. But the hand is what makes it something more than that. Something plain and mysterious, made of equal parts mother and human nature."
Nick is my friend that goes to see 10x as many independent films and plays as I do and I just recently found out was quite poetic as well...see what he wrote about the photo he chose:
"Kirstie stumbled upon this massive collection of photographs at a flea market somewhere in France. The seller did not know -- and now, I imagine, nobody knows -- whose story they tell, whose faces were so attentively captured decades ago, what singular odyssey through mid-century Europe ended up forgotten in a market bin and then found again, resurrected and now resting in my hands in a parking lot in Chicago. Leafing through the album I saw a long and beautiful adventure through forests and beaches and mountains and towns: friends gathering, festive dinners, carousing on the beach; quiet, reflective moments on precipitous cliffs.
There's not much to the photo I chose: it was taken on a mountainside, somewhere along a narrow, pebbly footpath, which veers off to the right after a stretch, out of the frame. In the distance, in the valley below, you see part of a quaint European town. Maybe that's where the photographer came from. Maybe this was the first photo of the whole series. We cannot know. All you see is the trail ahead, leading who knows where."
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This is the seond of the N'Oublie Pas series and LIndsey wrote about the photo she chose. This project is all about the idea that photos are not ever forgotten. They become part of the collective consciousness that affects us all...it's a continuum.
Lindsey is also one of the very best friends I have ever had in my entire lifetime. I truly believe when I met her I was blessed.
What can I say except there are some people that redeem the whole of humanity.
She said:
"I often find myself searching for underlying, universal threads that run through and connect humanity as a whole. A connection shared amongst everyone-- beyond the lines drawn by our nationality, our sex, our religion, our political affiliation, etc. People and their stories come and go from this world, often too quickly and always just a spec in the great scheme of time. I find myself drawn to landscapes that seem untouched by time-- as if they are immune and could have existed anywhere at any time. I am inspired. They are all of our elders, all of our predecessors, and ultimately, all of our rulers. We are extras in their stories. We come and go. There is comfort and curiosity in knowing they existed long before me and will continue to exist long after me-- I feel connected not only to a past but also to a people in the distant future who will never know me."
Please look at her photos. She is incredibly talented!
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