Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
September 12, 2010: A New Family
You may recognize the mother in these photos, I did her maternity pictures earlier in the summer (in a baby pool!). A month ago their beautiful baby girl was welcomed into the world through a home birth. Coming up on my daughter's 1st birthday, I am reminded of my own personal labor and feelings of becoming a new mother. Working on these photos has brought back so many memories and feelings of that time. It was a perfect setting; their home, the place of her birth and where their life as a new family began. Congratulations Tracy and Dave!
September 1, 2010: My Beatles
After two years since initially starting the project, "My Beatles" will be on display next thursday, September 9th at the EM Gallery (inside Krankies) in Winston-Salem, NC. My artist's statement for the show best expresses how connected I am to these photographs. I hope to see you guys there!
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I want my photographs to tell stories. And I want stories that come from moments of life, like a still from an old movie. Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time. Only a glance is needed to read the lines between people and find the story.
My love of photography stems from other loves: that certain slant of light, the look of a vintage scarf draped across a girl’s shoulders, a song lyric that rattles around in my head until it takes on a life of its own.
The My Beatles series grew out of those loves—especially the last one. It began as a way to keep my creative energy moving into new places. I focused on interpreting the lyrics of one song at a time through imagery in the style that I love. The more I created, the more I wanted to create. As the series grew, photos that started by playing on a single lyric began connecting with moments in my own life—some big, some small. I was able to pay tribute to and work through those moments of joy and pain and in the process create something that exists on its own.
The Beatles have always been a part of my life. As a young child, I listened to my mother singing along to their songs throughout the house. The lives being lived in those songs now mirror events in my adult life. And because there is no shortage of Beatles songs to work with, I hope to keep connecting lyrics with my life and the people in it — some who’ve gone and some who remain — for years to come.
-Heather Evans Smith
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I want my photographs to tell stories. And I want stories that come from moments of life, like a still from an old movie. Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time. Only a glance is needed to read the lines between people and find the story.
My love of photography stems from other loves: that certain slant of light, the look of a vintage scarf draped across a girl’s shoulders, a song lyric that rattles around in my head until it takes on a life of its own.
The My Beatles series grew out of those loves—especially the last one. It began as a way to keep my creative energy moving into new places. I focused on interpreting the lyrics of one song at a time through imagery in the style that I love. The more I created, the more I wanted to create. As the series grew, photos that started by playing on a single lyric began connecting with moments in my own life—some big, some small. I was able to pay tribute to and work through those moments of joy and pain and in the process create something that exists on its own.
The Beatles have always been a part of my life. As a young child, I listened to my mother singing along to their songs throughout the house. The lives being lived in those songs now mirror events in my adult life. And because there is no shortage of Beatles songs to work with, I hope to keep connecting lyrics with my life and the people in it — some who’ve gone and some who remain — for years to come.
-Heather Evans Smith
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