This week we have taken a look at both chance and serendipity as well as creative restraint. Chance often plays a role in my own practice simply because I choose to shoot with a variable of unpredictable proportions: Children. As with most composite photographers, it is vital for me to carefully plan and lay out each image well before shooting begins. However with the wildcard of working with Children you have to be willing to keep an open mind toward 'anything goes.' Because working with children anything really can happen. Expressions are key in my images and many times the children present me with what I was expecting-not-expecting faces that often result in me changing the flow, composition, even the storytelling in my image. Sometimes they are harder to work with, sometimes they create opportunities for an even better image than originally planned. For example, this image started as a fairy creation but her whimsical expression soon led me to Christmas instead.
B.Slade 2017
For our 'Peer Commissioned Micro Project' this week I teamed up with
Clodagh Moreland. Clodagh remembered America being mentioned more commonly for road trips than walking so she issued me the invitation for a micro series 'on the road' with the creative restraint of the color BLUE.
The project progressed in an interesting manner for me. At first, the restraint of blue was a bit daughting as blue seemed to be the only color missing as I drove. But soon enough the project took on a life of its own. The 'blue' that first caught my eye was a simple American flag. Love this country! Interestingly enough the next several items of blue that I came across also seemed to represent America and the rights and freedoms of my daily life. From the freedom of the press to the opportunity for clean water, take a look at the images I collected and see if you can distinguish how they are tied symbolically to life in America.
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