Damsel and Louis for Ask the Dust
Added 2016-03-24 06:26:02 +0000 UTCSorry for the delay everybody. The older I get the slower I drive, the more I take my time to take everything in while I am on the road. We drove from Phoenix to San Diego last night. Watched the sun set just outside of Yuma and then drove until late arriving around 11pm, exhausted and ready to crawl into bed.
I used to drive faster, I used to miss a lot of the little things, or places that I try and stop to see now.
I guess I have the same sort of goal with this series...Ask the Dust. A story of couples of small intimate details, that go overlooked, and I think that is the story I am trying to tell. Damsel and Louis were my second shoot for this project, so I am obviously still learning, and certainly still exploring, but I find myself drawn to little details.
The way hands move, facial expressions, the way the light falls through a bedroom window. The little things in a photo that signal genuine intimacy, or love. It was such a pleasure to be able to spend an afternoon with Damsel and Louis capturing these small things, and to be trusted to do so!
One of my favorite quotes from Fante's book "Ask the Dust" is below.
“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”
Comments
Is this set still available? The link doesn’t seem to work for me.
2022-03-19 22:48:07 +0000 UTCIn erotic photography, I often wonder about the juxtaposition of a voyeuristic approach to capturing this kind of intimacy, and the shattering of the artifice when, in a series like this, the subjects are aware of the photographer/audience. I have mixed feelings about having the model(s) acknowledge our presence by looking into the camera - kind of like the end of Truffaut's The 400 Blows when the frame freezes and Antoine looks straight into the camera and you are whisked away from your willing suspension of disbelief to a realization that this just was a movie. On the other hand, given the taboo nature of voyeurism, I believe it adds to the titillation knowing that the subjects have been aware of your presence all along, conveying a kind of acceptance, validating the powerful erotic feelings of the voyeur. Either way, it provokes the senses on many levels.
Michael Lynch
2016-03-24 13:21:32 +0000 UTC
