travismakesphotos

After being at a University centered around the enrichment and varied possibilities the camera can produce, I have come in contact with a harsh reality to my own work: I am copying what I know. While my favorite photographers (Arbus, Tillmas, Parr, Brady, Gearon,  Crewdson, di Lorca) all have a certain snapshot quality to them, but their work in the late 80s or even 90s was really hard to push through. I am struggling to explain that not every photo has an idea before it was taken, some of them come through the visceral intensity of life; we bring our own emotional baggage when looking at a photo. This journal came to be by looking at my n