During COVID, getting out for long walks with a film camera in hand has been my way of refreshing my body and mind. Most times I walk the trails in our neighborhood. Sometimes I walk in the woods. Other times I walk in Minneapolis. And on the coldest of days, I walk the mall. Wherever I'm walking, I have my camera in hand. The images I make on my walks reflect a circumscribed life...the constrained lives we've all experienced during COVID.
Film photography is my photographic journal. As this body of work has grown and evolved, I get a sense that these are lonely images. There is only one person in all these photographs...a solitary photographer out walking. When I make a photograph, more than anything I'm hoping it evokes an emotion...any emotion. It's not that I'm seeking the emotion I was feeling at the time I made the photograph. Those are mine. I'm hoping they evoke an emotional response in the viewer. I've told you what emotion I sense in these photographs. I'd love to read what emotions you sense when viewing these photographs in the comments below.
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Kimberely Gorman
1/27/2022 07:07:29 am
Lonely yes. Forlorn?? Yet the image of the boardwalk with the bird on the rail a bit of hope??
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Tom Northenscold
1/27/2022 09:08:19 am
Birds are hopeful, aren’t they. Especially a red-wing blackbird.
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Ann Burns
1/29/2022 11:14:25 am
I love your work with film! You find beauty everywhere and inspire me to get out with the camera more often. Keep the blog posts coming! Ann
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Tom Northenscold
1/29/2022 02:00:30 pm
Thanks Ann! Film has been a key coping mechanism for me during these crazy times. I’m glad you enjoy the work. I’ll do my best to keep the blog posts coming.
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