Thoughts

I find that most of my ideas or thoughts come to me while I am either driving, or waiting to fall asleep. The other night while driving home, I thought to myself for whatever reason, what the different between drug addicts and digital photographers was. I'm not quite sure what prompted this thought, but I was able to come up with a lot of similarities between the two which I thought to be a little odd. I also thought about how people who use things like myspace or any of the like websites were similar to drug addicts. I thought about it the whole way home and as soon as I got home I just started typing my thoughts.
Since that night I have been trying to think about possible ways to show these obsessions thought photographs and say something about it. I have a few ideas, but I'm not quite sure where I want to take this.
I'm torn on what I want to pursue for this senior portfolio class. I love doing my gore work and want to work on that more, and I also would like to work on fashion type stuff, as well as this one idea but i'm not sure which.

I need direction. Where is my compass....hmm.

Peter Beste


Joel Peter Witkin



Mehmet Turgut


Where I am now, I see myself as a photographer who is focused mainly on aesthetics. Some deep meaning behind a photograph doesn't concern me as much. However I would like to start incorporating it into my work. I find that the things i enjoy creating the most are reminiscent of stills from horror movies.
What i'm looking to do in the future however is quite different. My main goal is to be a fashion photographer of sorts. The main reason for that is the money, but at the same time it's of some interest to me because i'll be almost guaranteed attractive models, and I also enjoy elaborate sets. I guess I enjoy storyline as opposed to some "deep meaning."

The photographers who inspire me most are Joel Peter Witkin, Peter Beste, and Mehmet Turgut. I don't find huge similarities in my work compared to theirs, but I do admire and respect their work. I admire Witkin the most because of the detail he puts into his photographs and how so many different components of his photographs have a meaning to them. Mehmet is a more contemporary photographer that I respect because of the way he uses movement, color, and facial expressions. I don't find a whole lot of meaning in his work, it is more aesthetically pleasing to me.