(|On the freeway going to the airport to drop my brother off| Sort of fitting the first picture is actually taken on January 1st. Crazy New Years Eve in which I thought my brother got kidnapped and his organs sold in China)
I actually had no intentions of putting up a second feature so quickly. But the front banner as you’ll see constantly tries to scroll to a next feature/image. We weren’t able to temporarily disable it and somebody mentioned it was making them nervous, always watching it slide over to no avail and bounce back. So over the weekend, I figured it would be cool to put together some of my favorite images from 2009. Some probably have a better story than others and some have none, but I hope you enjoy nonetheless.
When I started this site, one of the main reasons was to in fact have a place for photography. I’ll throw out the self-handicapping statement, I’m far from the best photographer, but the stuff I shoot for myself, I genuinely like. In a position where I’m not paid and don’t have anybody else to satisfy, this will more than suffice. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m useless when it comes to visual communication. Drawing/painting, all that shit I’m just terrible. Photography seemed to be my one out, where I could actually produce something that I could share with the world on a visual level that I wasn’t ashamed off. Now that I think of it, maybe I have poor manual dexterity with a writing/communication utensil in my hand cause my handwriting looks like I wrote it with my feet… yeh that bad.
Before I cap this off, looks as though my friend Bobby Hundreds put his own 2009 Picture Review (landscape format) up but took a different approach and left everything un-captioned. I’ve always had conflicting opinions on doing that and whether there needs to be some contextual background to understand something creative that didn’t come from your own hands. Or does it defeat the purpose if you yourself spell out what’s in front of you. Maybe photography doesn’t need a conceptual background as much as something much more abstract, cause after all photography is very much real and a reflection of something tangible.
Hope you enjoy and have a happy holiday!
-Eugene