Doppelgängers?
In addition to my normal photo-commentary-blog reading, I’ve been doing research for my thesis, which many of you know is about my wife Stacy (we got married four years ago at the end of this month, btw). In the past couple of months, I’ve come across several photographers doing some thematically similar work, such as Kate Hutchinson, who has been photographing her husband-to-be in a series with the best title ever, “Why Am I Marrying Him?“.
I then happened across the work of Jason Landry, an MFA candidate in photography in Boston, who is shooting his wife, Anne, for a series called “Close to Home“.
But tonight was the kicker. I was checking up with Museum School student Shane Lavalette’s blog /J (which you should all be reading) when I found his post about the work of Eric Weeks. Weeks has been photographing his wife Stacy, whom he married four years ago in a series titled “World Was in the Face of the Beloved“.
I swear, this is just getting ridiculous. Or maybe I’m just onto something.
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while all these photographers seem to be talking about a person and their loved one I think your images of Stacy are a lot different. Too many of the images from the photographers mentioned above seem to be less personal than what I think your talking about in your work. For me your work keeps the viewer separated from your own emotion allowing us just a glimpse of what it is your feeling or expressing. The others photographers seem to be more about a performance between their loved ones and the camera. I could go more in depth on why I think your images are drastically different but I’ll save that for a dinner conversation (you’re buying).