Do you ever try to photograph the familiar?
In the video, Dylan Blackburn states what we all probably know is true, that photographing what we’ve seen for all our lives, where we grew up, or where we still live, can feel boring.
And that going to new places can feel exciting, new.
Dylan says his assumption was that if he found it boring, so would everyone else.
“I couldn’t have been more wrong,” he says.
And it’s of course true that even if something is familiar to you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s familiar to everyone else. In fact, rather the opposite is true, that if something is familiar to you, it’s likely unfamiliar to almost everyone else.
But that doesn’t help much with the issue of how do you find what’s interestesting – for yourself – in the familiar?
William Eggleston managed somehow. Most of his photography is done in the southern parts of the US, where he is from and still lives.
Unfortunately, that’s something Dylan Blackburn doesn’t help us with.
