So many of my own photographs, as would be the photographs of countless other smartphone photographers, might be more affectionately referred to as “Found Photography”?
In this pure sense, I am taking, not making the photograph.
This content, and these assets, exists in time and space. I am giving them new import, intention, implication. I am giving them a new home.
In other words, Found Photography is not setting things up to shoot but, serendipitously and spontaneously, discovering subjects, scenes, and scenarios, usually anonymous, nor intended as fine-art objects, and giving them fresh, aesthetic meaning and messages, through the eye of a camera.
OMG. Seriously, OMG!
What a sheer honor, privilege, and opportunity. I get to constantly pluck, often out of obscurity, things I find beautiful, lyrical, poetic, and give these things significance, even at times, magnificence.
I honestly and sincerely believe that this is why, so often, I feel so full.
Through my camera and artist eye, I bring order to chaos, attention to the ignored, appreciation to the overlooked, and meaning to the meaningless.
In the grand scheme of things, I make lost things found.
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Jack
