everything starts with an idea, right?
Or perhaps, a confluence.. small trickling streams of ideas, seemingly disconnected, but then become one flowing river, merging together to make more noticeable progress or impact on the environment.
This is how I feel about the ultraLight Magazine project.
metallic infrared proofs
This new project, printing an actual magazine (mini-magazine, technically) feels like a combination of works, building on the past few years, as well as an appreciation for design I have always had.
Making something, however, is a new challenge with more nuance than you realize going into it. I am embracing that challenge. I grew up doing with a focus on abstract, black and white.. and have a gaining interest in Infrared / Near-Infrared / Full Spectrum photography.
I have been working on concepts, visuals, photo shoots.. all pieces that have felt separate until I realized they have a common theme. The beauty of the abstracted forms, the nature of what we cannot see in nature, with our own two eyes that is. Simply put, I love photographs and images displaying worlds, realms, realities that our naked eyes do not witness. I want to see something I can’t see normally.
There is a special something in this way of viewing, through a camera or otherwise. We can view world very familiar, yet very much foreign as well.
What is infrared photography though?
Don’t worry, I’ll get to that. In time.