The Road Goes Ever On... (pt 2)

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Take a load off Annie... (Part 1)

I've been extremely busy these past few months with a few things and have (as an inevitable result) have neglected both this blog as well as some of the various projects I'd like to be shooting. However, I still have some new images to post and a few new ideas to follow.

Much of my work up to this point has been "heavy duty" stuff dealing with critical social issues and has often lead me down the path of having a very "heavy" mindset regarding my photography... not exactly the best emotion to have when engaging in one's work.

I'd gotten myself into the groove of "there's work to be done, no time for anything else, you can take "fun pictures" elsewhere... THIS work is far too important to lose focus on."

But there's always a silver lining. I've recently had the pleasure to photograph some friends in a very simple and "carefree" manner. No journalism deadlines, no giant looming book project to keep in mind... just making photographs of very close friends. So, while the following images (see part 2) probably won't win a Pulitzer, they have done much to rekindle the joy of photography that had been eluding me for the past year or so. Lesson learned: follow (and complete) the big tasks of creative and social action, but don't forget that you initially got into this because it was supposed to be fun.

 

Oh, I've also included a couple of the more recent portraits.

 

I hope all is well out there in USA, Canada, California, Australia, and Japan (or anywhere else that happens to see this blog).

 

Dylan

Take a load off Annie... (Part 2)

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I'm Back

Hello everyone once again,

The summer was an interested one and I'm now eagerly looking forward to the numerous projects I have brewing for the coming fall, year, and probably the next couple of years.

I'll be once again organizing GUMBO in the Spring ("GUMBO Strikes Back"?)... and (in addition to a few other things) I'm beginning some of the early work for my next book (a visual-oral biography of rural farming in modern New England).

Here's the tiniest of teasers:

Also, be on the lookout for my latest completed work Will's Store (due to land on a bookstore shelf near you in the [hopefully] near future)!

Summa-Time Blues

Hello Everyone,

School is finally out for the summer and that means that I'll be wandering and wayfaring through the various green hills and down the rivers of the windfall light in the ever continuing quest for a story to tell.

Keep your eyes peeled.

Dylan