While my work is images of the external world, it is very much about my internal world. I photograph places a lot of the time because I respond to them as suggestions of memories or out of nostalgia.
The way those towns look now is so enormously different than what is depicted in the images.
I can tell you how sneakers sounded on that gym floor, what the smell of the stage was under the lights. I could tell you stories about chipped front teeth, humiliating gym classes, and awkward middle school dances. Tweet
I was writing something recently and had to fact check the population of the town I grew up in. Wikipedia, much to my unsurprise, offered me Northumberland, Pennsylvania’s very own Wiki. I knew most of the sparse information on the page but it was this photo that sort of left-hooked me to the brain. “Home”, the actual geographic location, has been shifting and moving since I left Northumberland when I was 13. Even now, “home” refers to different places, depending on my geographic location. “Home” when I’m physically in Medford,... Read the Rest →