What Do You See?
Every year I curate a new story for my on going project “Life.” This year I decided to use video format alongside the usual layout, giving me the opportunity to narrate a story I had written over the top of the photos I took in 2024. I really enjoyed combining the two and will probably do more of this moving forward so if you have ever wondered what I sound like today is the day your wonderings will be rewarded! Lemme know what you think!
A few months ago a friend told me that my writing and photography felt like, “catching the middle of a story, without a beginning or an end, the whole world existed for those characters and she was getting a slice of it” At the time I wasn’t quite sure what she meant by this, I knew it was a compliment but I didn’t fully understand how. It stayed with me though, hovering in the back of my mind as a question mark, until last week when I saw a pickup truck driving along a tree-lined road that reminded me of Europe. Something about the angle from where I was seeing it and the movement of our cars, me driving towards them while they pulled further away, evoked a heavy feeling of nostalgia and I wanted to write a story about all the lives attached to it. Where were they going, what had they come from, what was the whole picture? As these thoughts started racing around my head, vying for attention, the scene suddenly began to feel heavy and clunky, a chore, and I realized that I was happier with how it felt in that short period, I didn’t always need to know what came before or after, the scene was allowed to be whole in that one moment. I finally understood what my friend was talking about. Later on that night I relayed this journey of mine to her and after her initial surprise that what she said had stayed with me she went on to say, “Context can become a burden. With glimpse’s of a story you give people, who are experiencing your work, the freedom to interpret it themselves, how it makes them feel, and how they can attach their story to it themselves ” I have always known I like to greedily grab at life, each passing second has its own unique story, but how we see it is up to us. The photos here are some that I caught from my life in 2024. They each have their own stories, but those are mine, what stories you feel and see will be yours.
What else, what else….
This month up on The People We Meet……
“I spotted Joe last fall while walking through our local village. With rays of sunlight seemingly shining down on him, and him alone, he struck a casual summer vibe, a biblical beacon, amongst a sea of woolly sweaters and hats…click
I think that is that for now. The rest of March was filled with kids, shoots, meetings, travel and strep/flu! Also I’m now an expert at filling car tires with air after a journey where the back left tire lost air not once, not twice but three damn times in really sketchy areas of the country! When I finally arrived home I got the tire mended (valve issues) only to drive over a nail one week later and have to buy a brand new one! (What’s with all this bad tire karma?!) Oh and I went to see Nathaniel Raitliff in concert at Mohegan Sun last week, where I rediscovered how human and delicious live music is and how crap I am at gambling!
Until next time,
Stay childish,
Franny x