"We release our 'stuckness' when we create. We reinvent our lives, tell new stories, and rebuild communities when we create.
We reclaim our esteem, our muse, and our hope when we create. Your body of work is everything you create, contribute, affect, and impact.”

― Pamela Slim

I am in the middle of putting together a photo book to mark 2024, and have been deep in reviewing photos. There were definitely times when I had slumps throughout the year, just shooting to shoot. But also times when I felt I was capturing just what I wanted, or maybe needed, to embrace.

While culling through photos I see where I have hardly taken any photos with my camera of my kids, but a couple hundred of my grandson. I noticed lots of photos of flowers and weeds, but not many of the dog this year, or food for that matter. I did not carry my camera with me everywhere, and instead used my phone.

I have given some thought into what it means to develop “a body of work”, and how my images are all over the map. It seems to somehow fit me however, even if it leaves me wondering what might happen if I were a bit more intent with my vision.

2024 will be remembered with a book full of diptychs, a project I dove into with gusto around mid year. I have shared a few here and there.