rwearly

I got my start in photography with experimentation. I played around with the wrong films for the wrong subjects and broke many of the so called rules in photography. It was a freeing experience to bend and twist the tools of photography to my liking. Early on I used high contrast copy film, a film designed for lithography, in a number of applications. In this case, portraiture. My subject was my best friend, shot in my mothers living room with a single flood light overhead. I was 17. This image and several others still live on as marquee images of that time. It has a haunting quality that befits the narrative of the Halloween season, yet opens new opportunities in our visual dialogue.