Perhaps one of the fundamental issues with being in grad school is formulating the answer to a question of self identity. Why am I doing this? Why do I seek recognition through the completion of another degree. The workload necessary to work full time and go to school certainly puts a strain on family relations and on my own sense of self as I try to balance out external and internal demands.
In the past month I have tried to revisit my core self by returning to work on my personal photography. In reviewing my work I take comfort in knowing that it is perhaps the purest expression of who I am. The written word obscures what I can feel within the tonality of a black and white photograph. Here is a small collection of black and white silver photographs that I have made from images I have created over the past twenty years.
