old project, new project

I’m at the point with Interim where every other day I either feel like it’s really about to take off or it’s never going to go anywhere, and I don’t really know which side the coin is going to land on. I do feel like my understanding of the project continues to change, so much so that I feel like I need to totally rewrite the statement and even possibly rename it. I fight my natural urge to give up and throw things away when they get this confusing and I’m trying to keep up the momentum, to keep pushing on because I have faith that there will be something to see and learn with each new image that I make.

I’m also not sure whether starting a new project now is the best idea, but that’s what I’m going to do. I will be working primarily with film, and with other people, strangers even, which I think will be really great for me but it scaring me a lot right now (I’ll probably write about that fear soon in an attempt to figure out exactly what is so scary). I’ve been setting appointments to shoot with friends of friends, with people from Craigslist, and I have some other ideas in the works. I’ll be posting more about it as the project develops, but right now I’m just trying to convince myself to take the first leap and get started, which I know is the hardest part.

For now, I post some inspiration:

Picture I love looking at today: $560,000 view by Julia Staples

Series that is most inspiring me right now: Jesse Burke’s Portfolios

Alec Soth on Portraiture: