garrison beau scott

…why we make the choices we do? I mean, what in the hell was I doing living in Bend, Oregon? At the time (1997) it seemed like a good idea, but thinking back, it wasn’t. I try not to live with regrets, and I don’t have any for my time in Bend, but living without regrets is more than just being apathetic about the choices you make. For me it’s about learning from the mistakes.

I won’t get into all of it, but suffice to say, the time there was short-lived, and not all completely well spent, but I did manage to take a few snaps. One of them is here, taken with my 4×5 pinhole using type 55.

Volkswagons. I like ‘em.

I’m very stoked about my upcoming participation in “Pushing Light.” Along with the very talented Tricia Zigmund and Lana Z. Caplan, I’ll be showing a number of photographs from my recent studies with the Holga in addition to a few paper negative pin-hole images. The show will be hung at the Kolok Gallery in North Adams, Ma. The opening will take place this Saturday, the 23rd from 5:30-8:00 and will more than likely spill over to a cool bar next to MASSMoCa. If you are anywhere near, please feel stop on by and take in some great photography.

Press release here.

One of the killer things about photography is the seemingly endless mediums in which one can use the craft to obtain their image. Silver gelatin, Platinum, Polaroid, Albumen, Calotype, Cibachrome, Daguerreotype, Gum bichromate, digital, and on and on. Once you factor in all the different kinds of cameras, with or without lenses, the choices for taking a picture can almost become overwhelming. But it can also provide for a variety unmatched by any other art form.

The following picture was made with a 4×5 pinhole fitted with a standard film holder. I used photographic printing paper instead of film for the initial exposure. I then contact printed the “negative” to produce the final image.