I recently had the good fortune to head back down to the Mississippi Delta for the COLOR show curated by our very own Will Jacks, held at the Warehouse in Cleveland.
I knew that this trip was going to be a chance for me to escape for a week to create. I had a plan to let myself go, and follow my plastic lens where ever it pointed!
I have an affinity for MS, not only is it only where I had my images hung (for the first time) in a photography show, but it is also the place that gave me the courage to pursue the Holga as a legitimate art from.
Last year I was fortunate enough to have an image that I created in MS take 1st place at Holgapalooza. Ever since then I have been on fire to get back and shoot my little heart out.
I wanted this trip to be about experimentation, because while I know that the Holga is about shooting without rules, I have gotten into a routine with it. I know what works (for me) and what doesn’t (or so I thought), so I have found myself playing it safe lately. SAFE? With a HOLGA? I was missing the whole point of what drew me to the low-fi photography world in the first place.
It was all systems GO when I got to MS, and oddly enough it was hard to push myself to do it all wrong. So I thought, lets at least just try some crazy techniques that I had written off early because I thought I couldn’t make it work. Well… lets just say I am over the moon with the images that came from my time down south. Just goes to show I need to stop worrying and just shoot that damn Holga any way that suits my fancy. Want to hang upside down and shoot, DO IT! Throw it down a flight of stairs, DO IT! How can you go wrong when everything about this medium is a crap shoot anyway.
WOohoo! Liberation!
by sarahh
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