Quarantine Stories
As a friend of mine’s father once wrote in a script, “A writer writes. Always.” Turns out the same is true in photography as I’ve been creating just as much work, if not more, since being under the stay-at-home order as before. Sadly, without a live-in model, I’ve been forced to turn the camera on myself. But these daily experiments have also led me to create a lot of new work I’m proud of and I’d like to share it with you.
So, in a series that I’ll be calling Quarantine Stories, I’ll be sharing a few different “episodes.” Why call them “episodes?” Well, my journey to becoming an artist began with filmmaking. Specifically screenwriting. Back in those days, long before I ever picked up a camera, my experience with photography was using images as reference material to inspire storylines. Not so much that I would take the action in the photo and make it into a movie. More so, that I would pin them to the wall above my computer, observe the subject in the photograph, and that person might inspire a character which, in turn, begged the question of what their story might be. So, imagine these episodes to do the same. They aren’t complete scripts. Rather fragments in time of a specific character. Maybe they will be a jumping off point for your own imagination.
Episode One: The Intruder
Episode Two: Hats
Episode Three: Footsteps in the Dark
Episode Four: Man In The Mirror
Episode Five: Electric Boogaloo
Episode Six: Looking Out At The World
Episode Seven: Double Vision
Episode Eight: Atomic Man
Episode Nine: All Dressed Up With No Place To Go
Episode Ten: Definitions
Episode Eleven: Small Steps
Episode Twelve: Couch Potato
Episode Thirteen: Flight School
Episode Fourteen: Top Gun
Episode Fifteen: Paper Man
Episode Sixteen: Glory Days
Episode Seventeen: Ford
Episode Eighteen: Robin Hood
Episode Nineteen: Colorways
Episode Twenty: Go Hard Or Go Home
Episode Twenty One: The Boxer
Episode Twenty Two: Lost In Time
Episode Twenty Three: Yasuke
Episode Twenty Four: Two Sides
Episode Twenty Five: African American
Episode Twenty Six: The Illusionist
Episode Twenty Seven: The Meaning Behind It All
Episode Twenty Eight: Yellow Jackets
Episode Twenty Nine: Spirits
Episode Thirty: The World Outside My Window
Episode Thirty One: Hitchcock
Episode Thirty Two: Lightmaker
Episode Thirty Three: Projections
Episode Thirty Four: Underwater
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”