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wonderlust photoworks in collaboration with @marissalynnla – [↑] Tenebristic Curatrix; [↖]  _.._; [↗] Against a Tide of Tyrants; [↙] Liminal Interval; [↘] Tightened with a Pin; [↓] Eigenstate (2017)

Back when I was first dipping my toes into the shadowy fjords of photography, I was a ridiculously squeeing fangirl when it came to work produced by Houston neighbors Traci Matlock and Ashley MacLean.

I utterly adored the ambiguity their work faciliated–mid-way between out-and-out eroticism and unblinking, it-is-what-it-is matter-of-factness.

I’d been following their work for the better part of a year before I learned how they worked; namely, when Traci made a photo of Ashley, Ashley was given the first editing pass. Allowing the subject of the photo a thumbs up/thumbs down first look–a means of allowing the person in the photo a very real degree of agency in how their visual identity was presented.

This process has become integral to my own work. With whomever I collaborate, I always offer them first look rights.

One of the interesting things about these images was that–without prompting–Marissa zeroed in on the all the same photos by which I was already captivated. (I’m telling y’all she’s not just a first rate model, she’s also a damn fine artist.)

The other interesting thing was that between shooting more frequently and being able to work in B&W in my preferred manner, it feels like my work is actually gathering something not unlike forward momentum.

Now if I can just find more folks who want to collaborate…

wonderlust photoworks in collaboration with @marissalynnla – [↑] Marissa Lynn (2017); [↓] Pellucid (2017)

As I’ve mentioned, I had two photo collabs while I was out in L.A. last month.

It’ll be another three weeks or so on the B&W–I use a specialty lab that I ADORE (but they are impossibly slow).

Anyway, so for now here’s the edit of the color stuff from the afternoon I spent with Marissa.

I was extremely nervous about the lack of light. (In an irony that wasn’t lost on me, it rained almost the entire time I was in L.A. while it was 60°F back in Brooklyn…)

But it just goes to show–trust your materials, measure twice, cut once and things have a way of sorting themselves on their own.

(I’ve clearly been thinking about Alexander Bergström & Akif Hakan Celebi more than I realized…)