I have a new photo series out. It is called “in reds”. And while working on this series on and off for a few months now, it has been the most fun I ever had while working on a collection of images which was always intended to form a series.
And finally, I added all the series I have released in the last couple of years on my homepage, or better put: make them available by linking through my homepage to get you over to my feed on behance. For some reason when releasing my first series “calm waters” back in 2020 I thought it was a good idea to do this over on Adobe´s creatives platform behance, rather than releasing it on my homepage. A decision that can be questioned, because why not have it all solely on my homepage? ( I will answer that for myself in the future. Meanwhile I definitely enjoy that platform for what it is: a great platform for bodies of work beyond singular image presentations) Anyways, now it is easier to navigate to it and have people who look for my work on my homepage even notice it. It was about time!
I think this goes along with me liking the idea of creating a series more than I have in the past. Honestly, I have struggled quite a bit to put images together into a theme and series, therefore the low number of collections released. I was rather going image by image. Maybe it was for lack of focus on a collection of themed images, rather picking up different single photos whenever I felt like it and releasing those soon after finishing. In fact, I sit on my images much longer than I did in the past before releasing on my homepage or social media. And maybe I put too much pressure on myself on wanting to have a strong streamlined ‘consensus’ on images inside a series. Going for a too perfectionist approach resulting in a daunting task for myself that turned me off even trying more often than not.
It did not feel like this with ‘in reds’. In fact, it was fun working on it and felt rather easy. And I am saying this although it took me several months to finish the series. Still, having a sense of “relax, let images interact with each other and bridge themselves without being forced” was the right approach for this one, I believe.
Now rather than talk about the images, I want to let the images inside the series do the talking. Have a look. I hope you enjoy!
