Author: paige green
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I am locked in the searles tower of south london, in the castle without elephants this weekend….I think my body is actually conforming to the shape of the brown leather chair and my eyes are turning into lifeless glowing cubes from staring at my computer for way more hours than the recommended daily dosage….I have…
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pancakes or eggs? eggs….soft boiled, with soldiers. the eggs were cooked too long, and there’s not enough bread for soldiers. yes, but the real question remains…..what is art?
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This summer for my project I spent approximately: 2 months on 85 photoshoots…..focusing on about 60 different main characters…….and took about 100 rolls of 120 film with 15 images per roll= 1500 photographs……$3.45 per roll = $400 (plus shipping and tax) plus tripod, plus processing and developing and scanning = $1,000, so I probably spent…
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So now I am back in London…..with a box of prints and a stomach full of nerves. While I was in the US, I had thoughts that maybe I didn’t even need to come back, because I had already learned what I needed to learn. I learned how to photograph with a medium format camera,…
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My last Friday in Reidville, my favorite fireman Tim Brady took me out to lunch at Joe’s Lake. And I am so glad he did because besides being a local favorite hang out, it was another good lesson. I was feeling pretty confident after having a 99% success rate of gaining permission to photograph everyone…
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After using medium format all summer…..where the camera is so slow and therefore each photograph is so slow and at every shoot I take an average of 3-5 frames of each person……I forgot how to use 35 mm and I forgot how when you photograph a 6 year old, there is no slow…..but photographing Hannah…
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The farmer in Bill Chumley wants the area that he grew up in to stay rural but to actually earn money, he owns a landscaping business and more developments mean more jobs for his family. Sherrie Morrow has just completed her first year in the real estate business. She likes the open green spaces and…
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My two best friends from high school. Ann and Betsy. Ann was my bad friend and Betsy my good friend. And I was their ‘different’ friend……and still am…..which can be seen by the two gourds that they are holding. I gave them gourds for my 30th birthday celebration night. Ann got the big gourd, because…
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Except to me she will always be Ann Carter. She was my best friend in high school; we were inseparable. I thought we were exactly the same person. We planned to go to college together. We planned to get a jeep and share it. But then I went to Georgia and she went to Charleston.…
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 