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| From the series "She Dances on Jackson" © Vanessa Winship |
In 2012 and 2013 fototazo published thirteen short essays from photographers to the basic question, "What advice do you have for starting a project?"
The series featured replies from Judith Joy Ross, Irina Rozovsky, Alejandro Cartagena, Phil Toledano, Steven Ahlgren, Susan Lipper, Amani Willett, Lisa Kereszi, Eirik Johnson, Richard Renaldi, Brian Ulrich, Mark Steinmetz, Tim Davis and Nicholas Nixon.
We continue with a follow-up series of advice from photographers on how to develop a project, asking them how they approach the middle ground of their projects after giving basic definition and before taking steps to finish.
The first responses in this new series came from Elinor Carucci, Michael Itkoff, Jackie Nickerson, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Chris Verene, Laura El-Tantawy and Rory Mulligan.
Today we follow with Vanessa Winship.
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| From the series "She Dances on Jackson" © Vanessa Winship |
It is important to understand the difference between looking and seeing. I think for the most part my work evolves organically, editing as I go. When I edit I make small prints which I pin on the wall so I can live with them. Eventually the strongest ones shine through.
I think when you start out you tend to photograph the obvious, it's not a bad thing, but eventually you begin to weed out the clichés. This comes as you begin to understand more about what you're seeing.
I often have multiple threads going at any one time and eventually the strongest ones win through. I begin to focus more on a specific thread or threads.
But I don't just work with dramatic images, I like to work with images that make sense in sequence as much as images that work alone.
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| From the series "She Dances on Jackson" © Vanessa Winship |