In the last few weeks, I have revisited a book called "Sleeping by the Mississippi" by Alec Soth. I am drawn to this project of his in particular because he embraces the loneliness, learning, art, music, death, religion, and sex that he comes across and is not afraid to embrace it or to take his time to truly convey his surroundings.
Though he was doing what has been done many times before and will be done many times again, he allowed himself to produce work that truly reflected his journey and experience leading to a deeply reflective body of work.
Much like Soth's work, I aim to produce images that are carefully thought out, which not only reflect the subject's life but the moment that they have allowed me to be apart of. In the years I have been photographing people I have learned a lot, but have stayed on a very surface level with most of my work, and I find myself wanting to dig deeper to produce work that has more substance and give myself the time to so do.
References : https://alecsoth.com/photography/projects/sleeping-by-the-mississippi // https://www.instagram.com/littlebrownmushroom/?hl=en