ARTISTS IN FILM

My heart in this project, of photographing artists in their spaces, has a few intentions behind it.
Being that I first and foremost want to expand the understanding and thought process of what an artist is.
Secondly, that I want to simply blend and share an art form of mine with another’s and emphasize what a privilege that is. Because I think often we are meant to blend our lives and passions with others more often than we perhaps allow for.
Thirdly, I want to highlight some of the amazing people I’ve met over the years in all manner of places, doing such genuine heart-felt things and who truly treat their lives as their proverbial canvas.
Last but not least, I am looking to stretch myself in my own ideas and understanding of what it is in me that feels alive and passionate about my various art forms through witnessing the fire and passion of others practicing theirs.

But why film?

I have found that it is within limitations that my best, and most loved, work is created. The shots I probably never would have gotten had I been given all of the luxuries and conveniences of digital technology.
Of course there is also a certain heightened love and appreciation for that which is scarce and in small supply. The limitation of 24 or 36 frames to document a story.
These are once-in-a-life-time images. 
Which is the definition of what a photograph is: A millisecond captured of an irreplaceable moment in time.
They images are the result of my rawest and most vulnerable kind of art.
I have to overcome a little insecurity and self doubt in creating these photos because I am not proficient in film and am not as practiced at documenting with it as I am with digital means (which is my paid profession).

And I think that is what I find most precious and special about these sessions: That these artists are extending to me a similar kind of vulnerability. 
They have welcomed me into their most sacred space, the place where they create and put out the art that they just can’t help but do. The things they go to bed thinking about, dream of in their sleep and then wake up with in the morning still on their minds. 
Because they have to create. 

They were made to do this specific thing, and they don’t know how to not do it. As an artist who holds the spaces in which she creates as very reverent and sacred, I know all too well how meaningful it is for someone to be willing to share that with others. 

You can read the current Artists In Film essays below.