Late Bloomer

Late Bloomer
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Late Bloomer is 160 pages of revisited locations and scenarios: new photographs of old places, stuff I had photographed before but wanted to go back and do again, places I vaguely remembered photographing and places I wasn’t entirely sure about anymore.

I had been really fixated on the idea that what I like at 35 is roughly the same as what I liked at 25 and 15. The main difference is that I have absolutely no interest anymore in photographing people camping up some role as “graffiti guy,” “cool skateboarder,” “Tumblr girl,” etc. No, don’t really like that anymore. Not too interested in people at all, these days. I’m just looking for the big ‘abandoned Baptist church in the woods overgrown with brush on a foggy day’ of my dreams, man.

Really, this was the first wave of photographing things again “for the first time”: going back as if I had never been there, in case I hadn’t, or in case I simply couldn’t remember doing it. The repetition became less about recreating an old photograph than looking again, double checking the landscape in case I missed something important. Some of these wound up absorbed into other projects because – well, that’s showbiz.