A favorite photographer: Josh Edgoose

I had actually never heard of Josh Edgoose before coming across this video. But now I’m a big fan.

It’s Alex Kilbee that talks about Edgoose.

He starts with making the point that many of us photographers feel like there’s nothing to photograph in our immediate surroundings, that we always long for going somewhere, somewhere we think there is something new and exciting.

Kilbee says that he feels that Edgoose’s work is “soft, gentle, almost pastel.”

What he likes about that, Kilbee continues, is “it makes the images feel still, gentle, quiet.”

I agree, and I am really drawn to Edgoose’s photos, they speak to me, hit me inside somewhere.

And I think it might be because of the colors, which are muted, like Kilbee points out, and probably pretty close to the colors that I look for in my own photos.

But it also has to do with the ordinary things and scenes that Edgoose takes photos of.

So, says Kilbee, instead of seeing photographing what’s close to you, familiar to you, as some kind of obstacle to get over, see it for its advantages. You get to see it at different times of the day, different lights, different seasons, different people and so on.

Go have a look at Edgoose’s work, what do you feel and think about it? Doesn’t it feel a bit like something from Martin Parr, or William Eggleston (and many others, of course)?