In April of 2018, I began working on a series of pictures that slowly evolved into a project titled Witness Marks. To date, I’ve taken over 3,700 photographs, which, in the digital age, isn’t very much considering what’s possible. But it is an overwhelming number when it comes to trying to make sense out of the work.
I have committed to exhibiting this work in a show in October 2020, and am working hard at choosing images for it. I’ve been using Photo Mechanic 6 to view, organize and manage all these photographs, and it has helped me to quickly be able to prioritize them. After narrowing them down to about 120 images this way, I reached the point where I needed to print them in order to physically be able to look at and organize them. For me, culling and editing on a screen only goes so far, as I find it way more informative and helpful to physically arrange and move pictures around in space. I’ll be in this phase for a while.
Cutting up contact sheets
Arranging and choosing images