One of the main schemes behind the, “Photo Journal” section of my website is to give space to the rest of the photos which didn’t make it into a collection. The photos here, though perhaps not cohesive with a curated set, are a part of the creative process. They’re moments my mind’s eye wanted to not forget. They’re blunders, mess-ups, ugly, bad shots. No one is perfect. No roll is ever full of 12, 24, 36, extraordinary shots. This is the space to showcase those, because they are as much a part of me as are my best.
It may be a mistake to crowd my web expanse with more images - but it also might not be. I’m not just a photographer. I’m a writer. I’m an observer and lover of so many light-filled moments of being alive in the world. This is my design and conviction. My bread and butter. My milk and honey.
This first whole roll includes some of the photos featured in my collection, “Milk and Honey,” which focuses on alternative impressions of my incessantly-photographed hometown Los Angeles. I find it difficult, occasionally, to be from a city as sprawling as Los Angeles. There is hardly a center, a thousand and one different identities, millions of places to be, an overwhelming sense of past and future, hardly any present. A dynamic existence, with which I’ve wrestled my entire life.
Upon touching down at LAX once, a friend welcomed me home by saying, “welcome back to the land of milk and honey”. Never had I once thought of Los Angeles to be a land of milk and honey, however since I was greeted with such an idea it never left my mind. This roll was inspired by the milk and honey greeting and sweeping new perspective of an old view.
This set was shot on an expired roll of FujiColor 200 35mm film with my trusted Minolta srT200 and a 50mm fixed lens. I did not shoot all 36 shots out of pure impatience. Only 26 were developed. Enjoy the whole roll!
- Savannah