Annie Graves
Artist Statement "To take or not to take," that is the question. It comes up every time you peer through a viewfinder and push down on the button, making a choice.It's a great question because it contains layers, multiple questions behind the one question. What is meaningful to the photographer? What perspective illuminates that meaning best? How does the light make it stronger?
Language, cadence, mystery—they're all there, snapped and captured. I've been taking photos for more than 30 years—always when I travel, but more often now of my immediate world, New England. It was always easier to see beauty in other places, in the exotic, the unfamiliar. Through the camera lens, and thanks to new technologies, I've explored my old world with new eyes.
Another way of telling… of trying to understand. Seeing patterns, making patterns, looking close up, standing at a far distance.
This is what I saw, this was important to me. This was beautiful, or ugly, or powerful, or different. It caught my eye. It caught the eye of my camera.
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