I just love this photo. I don’t get tired of it, not even a little bit. Maybe I like it because it shows beautifuly the grain of film, it does something that my newfangled digital cameras just don’t, something authentic and material, something with silver and light.
I’ve had the notion knocking around my head of a location-based photobook for some time. David Roby mentioned it to me when I was a kid, I think. Or maybe when I was in college, so, when I was a kid.
He wanted to travel around and make images of all the places the old soul classics were recorded. Some of recording studios still stand, but some of them are parking lots. He wanted to make images of them regardless.
I always imagined the opposite page would have a few words about the place, the history, and a list of the songs or the records.
It’s a damn good idea, honestly.
I’ve had the notion knocking around my head of a location-based photobook for some time. David Roby mentioned it to me when I was a kid, I think. Or maybe when I was in college, so, when I was a kid.
He wanted to travel around and make images of all the places the old soul classics were recorded. Some of recording studios still stand, but some of them are parking lots. He wanted to make images of them regardless.
I always imagined the opposite page would have a few words about the place, the history, and a list of the songs or the records.
It’s a damn good idea, honestly.
The road trip from place to place around America’d be real nice to boot.
I bring this up becuase that’s the level of storytelling a testing stone photobook’d have to live up to, and it’s a high bar. It’d make no money, it’d be a niche thing. But hey, I’d like to travel to Ireland anyways, and after a few more months or years of training, I might even be able to lift the stones.
I tend to focus on the financial viability of a project a bit more than I ought to. Will this make me rich? Is this the next thing I oughta be doing? I don’t really question wether or not I’m passionate about a thing, I’m more concerned with how much it might soften my mortgage.
Maybe that’s alright.
I’ve got all the passion I can handle, right outside my door, and in the other room.