on photographing where we live
My hometown, the place where I grew up, is a very unremarkable town. Just one of many in this region. Some would even say it’s boring and ugly. I won’t argue with that.
And yet, I love photographing it whenever I’m around here.
I love it because it’s hard. Because it’s challenging. Because it’s different. Because it’s pretty much just me out there. Because it’s unique.
And because it’s real.
By all means, if you get to travel to exotic places, keep doing so — I enjoy doing that as well. But don’t feel bad if you don’t. Instead, try to embrace the mundane, the ordinary, the local, whatever we have access to right here, right now. Why wait?
We need to give ourselves permission to create art where we thought there was none.
After all, art is everywhere, if you say so.
I had to move to a different continent and spend a few years away to appreciate my hometown for what it is. That is, whatever I want it to be.
If we can find delight in the mundane, in the little things, then we will be able to find beauty in almost anything, anywhere.
new images
I try put my camera where my mouth is. These are images I made during the last few weeks around my hometown in NW Spain.
new videos
I also got new videos from here.
Thank you for being there.
Talk to you next week,
Adrian