the process of remembering: a photoblog by andrew huth

“Look3″

I attended this year’s Look3 photography conference (a festival/conference that celebrates the work of documentary photography/photojournalism and those behind the images).  To hang around a large group of people who dedicate their lives to telling visual stories is a powerful experience.  To do so with deeply thoughtful image maker friends beside you is even more so.  This blog is titled “The Process of Remember” for a specific reason.  It is a way for me to remember my personal journey on this earth in a meaningful and methodical way with a deliberate slowness of pace that allows me time to soak in more deeply things past that I would rather soon not forget.  Look3 was one of those moments in my life.  So perhaps for the next month, this page will be used as a daily vehicle allowing me to patiently practice the process of remembering.  These images are a collection of my vision and feelings from the past several days.

To kick off my Look3 posts, I feel it appropriate to start with a picture of my friend Kaylan.  Her strong, pretty and complicated look/expression feels like the perfect symbol of what this festival is all about—that more often than not, thoughtful image makers have a way for expressing more than a simple set of information in a picture.  The truth that images have the potential to say a great deal more to us than a simple recording of history.

Geeky photography note.  Kaylan is a huge fan of Steve McCurry so I attempted to shoot and edit this photo in McCurry’s vibrant color tradition.  I’m no McCurry to be sure, but this is my small way of saying, “Kaylan, I value our friendship.”