snapshot

When I had my interview for grad school, the head of my department suggested I come up with a personal project to work on while in London. He told me that I could be easily overwhelmed by being in a foreign land for a year, and I should try and make the most of it intellectually and artistically. The other week, I had this idea of the "snapshot". I've been obsessed with this notion of not forgetting, to try and remember all the things that I possibly could. My first adventure in photography came when I was nine, and my parents gave me a disposable camera on our trip out West. They told me I needed to make it last through the whole two weeks. During our first stop, St. Louis, I used up the whole thing in probably an hour. I didn't want to forget that feeling of riding in that tiny car, riding up to the top of the St. Louis arch. I can still probably remember most of that day, or at least, that hour I spent up there. Life goes by quickly, and I'm going to attempt to not forget it. I'm sure the project will be a little but more developed in time, but for now, I bought a cheap point and shoot camera off eBay and it will stay with me every step of the way of my endings in Chicago and beginnings in London. If you're ever interested, you may follow my tumblr blog I started. It's gonna be a lot of pictures...