Collection: 01 "Let Go"

Shot on 4x5 large format black and white film. The collection “Let Go” details the complex and often painful feelings of reminiscence and revival. Each photograph serves as a visual representation of memory, loss, and the persistence needed to move forward in life. This collection embraces the divide of memory and how the past shapes you future but can also tear you down, losing yourself altogether in the process. I used the contrasting patterns of light and shadow to reflect how the mind often only sees what it wants, ignoring the darkness that led to the process or being blinded by the darkness alone. By capturing a mix of both staged and natural circumstances, I was able to represent the physical and emotional elements with the use of double exposures and enlargement techniques to create a visual divide between memories and actions. The process of letting go is displayed by everyday objects being lost with no hope of the subject retrieving them, no matter what you do the past is unchangeable and therefor hopeless. Letting go sharpens the mind by altering your perception, it helps you live in the moment rather than through the lens of the past clouding your perception of the reality around you.