Create: The Third and Final

Create has been my biennial photobook series for the past 3 years, documenting the last six years of my photograph journey. What started in 2020 as a way to stay creative when Covid first entered the would and put a pause on getting together with models to create work as often as I had in prior year turned into a series of photobooks that I looked forward to creating. But the series must come to an end.

I’ve been learning and building my photograph skills for the past 8 years and I’ve learned a lot, including what it is that I like to shoot. I’ve always complained about how much I don’t like social media as an art sharing platform and how I want to present more print, and less digital, work to the world, and earlier this year I think I’m ready to dive fully into that method of creation. Since I had started compiling work for the third volume of Create with my first shoot in 2021, I felt it was only right to complete the project before moving on; I didn’t want to abandon all of the work I’d put into the project thus far. With the creation portion of it complete, all that’s left is the layout and design. I did end it a bit early in the year, though. But expect see this book toward the end of 2023.

With the Create series ending, the aim, as I said above, is more print work, which will consist of books and prints, but less shooting just to shoot cameras and more detailed and thematic images being created, within new genres of visual art that I haven’t shown much of in this series of books. Forcing myself to shoot less but make it meaningful and well as shooting more for myself and less for others (including models; that’s a different topic that I get into at a later time, but just know that I love all of the models that I work with, both creatively and as people, so I hope no one takes offense to this before I get to explain it).

Back to Create Vol. 3. I’m packing a little more into this book since it will be the last. Not many shoots happened in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, but I always hold back a lot of photos in these book as not to overload you with similar images of the same model in the same environment; this time I’ll be a little loose on that as to give you more for the finale. You’ll get more details on what’s in the book as it gets closer to completion. But for now, here’s the cover.