You know how film photographers get to play with different kinds of film under their brand? I think digital photographers should get the same privilege – especially if they shoot different types of cameras for different types of photos. As artists, I think we should be able to show off all the work we love, not just the stuff we sell.
I was digging through my archives for a project this morning and I just realized how MUCH I miss the old depth in my photos, depth that said goodbye during my foray into contre-jour and what friends sweetly dubbed The Kelly Effect.
These early images of mine haven’t seen the light of day for a long time, but they still make me happy, so I thought I’d share this little jaunt into my past. It’s actually a clue as to where I’m going from here, knowing what I know now.
I have been SICK lately. It’s some sinus thing or another mixed all up with some lung thing or another compounded by some barometric pressure thing or another that is tied into some adrenal thing or another. (SICK is the easiest way to describe it. Forgive me for taking the easy way out on the physical symptoms?)
It’s not just a body thing, though. It’s kind of a heart thing too. A restless heart thing, the kind I used to write about all the time, but can’t seem to express at all any more. Maybe these pictures will say more than my limited vocabulary just now?
FILED UNDER: Archives, Art, Nikon D200, Personal
lovely post kelly! wonderful to see some of your early work.
xx emily
Interestingly, I was first drawn to this darker moodier work of yours. I used to think of your work as dark and rich, whereas now I think of it has light. I love that window picture. It would look fantastic reproduced really huge on canvas. Almost like a trompe l’oeil. :) My house is way to small to accomodate all my photography display ideas!
When (and I say when, because the moment I create my new bank account I’m going to start a savings account specifically for this) I come to you for photographs, I’m sooo going to hope for some of this “mystery Kelly”, m’dear. I love the light Kelly effect … yet these are my favorites even in the face of all the admiration I feel for your recent work.
These are lovely, Kelly. And the color palette – at its heart – is not all that different…just a little darker. These still say ‘the Kelly effect’ to me. Personally, I love a little darkness to highlight the brighter parts of life. We see best in contrast I think.
Oh, Kelly. These photos do say it all.
I certainly don’t understand al of what you’re going through, but I’m still here if you need anything.
oh my gosh, the curtains blowing in the window picture literally made my heart stop. It has an incredible story to it and I couldn’t stop looking at it!
It is so fun to see this side of your art :)
Touched.
Thanks for looking back (and letting us see).