Project Photography
So I’ve been sitting here for the last three hours trying to sleep, but failing miserably because I cannot get an idea out of my head.
It’s one I have had since a fateful shower in a campground on the Oregon coast in late spring of this year, and it’s been slowly eating away at me.
I have to do this, but I couldn’t until now. Hell, I only really spoke about this idea to one person, and they expressed interest at the time, but then like our usual plans, everything fell apart.
So I’m going public, and I’m looking for volunteers, because I’m doing this now… I have to or it will eat me alive.
I want to create a project photography studio, based initially around the idea of photographing music.
Insane, I know, you can’t take pictures of sound.
I don’t want to though, I want to take pictures of emotional interpretation.
I want to make albums visual.
To be able to look through a book of photographs of what someone, or a group of someones felt while listening to a Hendrix album, or Madonna, or Cannibal Corpse for that matter.
Eventually I’d like to move into other projects, like photograph retellings of stories or fairy tales. Be able to make a neo-Victorian Peter Pan, or other fanciful things like that. I want to be able to make beautiful images that I’m proud of, and that the people who are working with me are proud of. Maybe put them in a gallery some day, or sell them as photography books… who knows, it doesn’t matter. I just have to do this.
No.. I -need- to do this, even if it fails, I need to at least try taking one album of music and putting it in a photo book just to see if it can be done.
But I can’t do this alone.
Sure I can operate my lights, my strobes, my camera and lenses… I can even storyboard (sort of) the layout and ideas. What I can’t do, is hair, or make-up, or even swing a hammer decently enough to build props or sets, and I certainly can’t be a half-dozen models, shoot assistants, and other people that are needed to really make photography great.
So I’m looking for volunteers, because frankly, I have already spent a few thousand dollars on photography equipment, so I can’t pay wages. But I do know I have some very creative friends, who are often looking for new outlets for that creativity.
And as bastardly as this sounds I have to say it anyhow… I don’t want half-assed volunteers. I want people who I can sit down with, give them a schedule for a shoot, or an entire layout, and have them be able to commit. Hard I know, because as I said, I can’t pay. But I need to do this, and I would be crushed if I got all ramped up, and it crumbled in my hands.
And I want to start moving on this before the end of the year… I need to start out the New Year with something to be proud and passionate about. I need to move into 2009 and with force, drive, and desire.
Maybe these are just the ramblings of the over-tired, but they are passionate ramblings.
