I do not mind. An experimental photography project.
An experimental photographic series exploring how we can overthink ourselves out of reality.
We say we don’t care about the things we actually care about the most, but somehow, they keep eating away at us. We replay moments, question what happened and imagine different possibilities. At some point, all these thoughts begin to change the way we see things, even altering how we remember them. The line between what actually happened and what exists in our minds slowly starts to blur.
When you get lost in your own mind, a few bright details are all you can see. They get louder while everything around them fades into the dark.
Move over the image. What you look at gets clearer; the rest fades.
Underwater, everything feels quiet and slightly out of reach. The figure is lost in their own thoughts, and the world around them softens into something blurred and distant.
Move over the image. What you look at gets clearer; the rest fades.
I deepened the shadows and darkened the backgrounds so the bright parts could stand alone and the eye knows where to go.
Glowing Edges turns every contour into a line of light. I pushed it until the images stopped looking like photographs and started looking like memories.
I played with brightness, colour balance and tone to find the mood, and to decide how light should feel in each image.
Cropping and reframing: deciding what to keep close and what to let go of.
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
I used underwater images, distortion, shifted colours and Photoshop’s Glowing Edges to show what it feels like to see something in pieces. The mood is quiet, a little unsettling and very personal. I hope it feels familiar, and that it makes you think of something you once said you didn’t care about.
“I don’t think I’ve ever truly not cared. I care about everyone I’ve ever known, everything I’ve ever loved.”