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When I got serious about photography, I began shooting with my grandpa's old Fujica 35mm camera. I loved it for many reasons: sentimental value (he used this camera to take my picture on my first day of kindergarten), its heft, its shiny silver accents, and most importantly, the photos I was able to create with it. A couple of years later, I bought a new 35mm camera with all the bells and whistles, some fancy filters and a zoom lens, but shortly thereafter, I stumbled upon toy cameras, promptly stowed my “real” cameras, and haven't looked back. Occasionally I dabble with my other cameras (35mm, vintage, pinhole, and digital) but my toys are my favorites. What is a toy camera and why on earth do I use them? Well, toy cameras are "crappy" entirely-plastic cameras that usually cost less than $25 and are known for their blur, aberrations, light leaks and vignetted corners. I use them because I love what I am able to create with them: dream-like, often surreal imagery. I love the square format. I love that I can pack five of them and still come in under two pounds! I love being able to laugh in the face of this age of high-priced digital hullabaloo (my toys don't even have battery compartments!). I love simplicity. I strive to shoot subjects that convey it, and toy cameras are perfect for that. My goal artistically is simple as well: to have fun. As long as photography remains a source of happiness and enjoyment for me, I'll keep doing it. I live in Northern Utah and spend my free time traveling
and kayaking. I am an outdoor gear photographer by day; and by night,
I am the Supervising Editor of Light Leaks, an independent quarterly
print magazine dedicated to the art of low fidelity photography,
now in its third year of publication. Exhibits February – May 2008 April 2007 February-April 2007 February 2007 January 2007 November 2006 October 2006 – August 2007
January 2006 July 2005 Publications October 2007 May 2007 March 2007 March 2007 October 2006 December 2005 to present December 2005 March 2005 March 2005 Miscellaneous November 2006 – May 2007 October 2005 July 2005 |
My
first experience with photography was a little over 20 years ago
when my sister and I would get out our Girl Scout gear (patches,
books and all), make quasi studio setups on the deck in the backyard
and snap away with our tiny 110 Burger King camera. We had so much
fun arranging props and giggling commands from behind the viewfinder,
we never realized we were dancing on the edge of something I’d
go into later in life. Luckily, my photographic whims and abilities
have changed quite a bit since then, but I continue doing photography
today for the same reason I did then: I enjoy it.
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