existential crisis in the digital age:

my photographic philosophy.

I primarily like to offer my services as a portrait photographer. In this rather impersonal digital age of cold, pixilated prints and immaculate, yet intangible images set adrift in cyberspace, I believe there is still a niche market for high-quality, darkroom-printed photos. I've come to view digital photography in a somewhat philosophical light, ultimately regarding it as a symptom of our culture's insatiable desire for instant gratification.

 

That isn't to say that I completely abstain from anything but film photography; I'm capable with a DSLR and willing to use one should the situation call for it. I simply believe that my twin-lens reflex medium-format Mamiya C33 will ultimately yield richer, more meaningful photographs.

 

The digital photographs I take with my Canon 60D and alter on my laptop never feel real – like a message in a bottle, digital photographs may be observed through glass, but never interacted with on a palpable level. I send these pictures bobbing off on wifi waves, but in my mind, they will never truly exist.