About This Blog
The reason I’m starting this blog is because I have just been named as an Artist in Residence for Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon and have been given a month to work on a new portfolio of images, a series of industrial urban landscapes. I thought it might be an interesting opportunity for you to be able to see the evolution of a portfolio. I will be posting images and my thoughts as this work grows and evolves. I have often hoped someone would intimately share their process as this is something you rarely learn in a workshop, how does a portfolio grow and how do artists answer questions such as what is good work, what is bad work, what should or should not be included, what is an appropriate title, who will be the audience for this work and so on and so on. I am always interested in hearing how other artists accept or reject images, how the focus of a project can change, and how to develop and apply a set of rules for a body of work, but I find most are either making these decisions in private, or are unwilling to show anything unless it is in a “finished” state. I don’t remember ever finding someone who would be willing to share their “reject” pile publicly and I hope that by sharing mine, you might learn something about your own work, or at least be able to participate in a discussion about whether you agree or disagree with my perceptions of things.