Long Exposure

Long exposure to the nighttime urban landscape of this city serves as a strange yet appropriate metaphor for my passion of great storytelling. Dependent upon the length of exposure, the intricacies of threads woven become manifest. Black and white compete for control of sense and sensibilities through story proper as tales unfold between the lines. Transformation becomes the touchstone that is reflected in a landscape that tectonically shifts from moment to moment.

Ansel Adams said, "To the complaint, There are no people in these photographs, I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer." His sentiment challenges the underpinnings of existence as it relates to story; a compelling narrative is never without its most significant character — the audience — and this truth is rewarded through long exposure to the landscape.

Forging ahead, beyond the topographical glance of the surface, requires a certain audacity on my part. A longform gesture towards mining the depths of an ever changing landscape. Exploring the cracks & crevasses of stories yet untold. A commitment to understanding the richness of each bold edition that life has to offer. Seen through the lens of long exposure, with the faith that I will one day stand as a great storyteller. Not of my story, but of yours.

—casjr—