>
>> Does that mean we are dealing with a schizophrenic medium or are we just
>> kidding ourselves that everything is going to be just fine?
>
> I don't think it's the medium that's schizophrenic, I think it's the artist.
> For myself I have this dislike to use the same camera on more than one
> project. I feel like the camera chose for me to use it shooting one thing.
> And when it is done with that project it has fulfilled it's reason for
> being. I feel hollow and empty if I try to use it on another subject,
> unless it is an obvious run off of the previous one and would lend itself to
> what has already been done. And I know this is all in my head, but that's
> the way I am. And it's ok, because I can make a zillion formats of camera's
> and always find new subjects.
A camera is like a friend and I like to learn as much as I can about it.
When I make a camera I spend time planning it, designing, building and
decorating it. The camera becomes an object in itself, an instrument for
capturing images, an altar to light.
By using the same camera on different projects a common thread runs through
series of photographs. I find this satisfying so because there is a
signature to the images and something outside the subject matter that holds
the images together.
I introduce a new camera only if I need a new one to take photographs that
cannot be taken by existing ones or practical convenience.
I visualize the image before photographing it; but then with pinhole things
are not always predictable. It is this unpredictability that then teaches
me new ways of approaching image making.
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