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It has becoming more and more obvious that I can't spend my life working in a cubicle. It works for me right now, because the pay is decent, the atmosphere is (usually) pleasant, and I couldn't ask for much more from a first job. I can't do this for too long, though. I feel it might be soul-crushing.
Ultimately, I'd love to travel and photograph the world. I'm certainly not the best photographer. I'm working on improving every day. But I'm positive I would live a more fulfilled life. That's why I'm pushing for Jagazine to work out; I want to be my own boss and do something worthwhile with the greater portion of my life.
Tomorrow, I get a taste of the future I one day want to have. Dan and I will be driving up to Massachusetts, where we will be covering another MC Lars show. I've photographed these guys plenty of times, but this time we're driving considerably further, and staying overnight. The exciting part isn't so much the performance, but the journey. I will take what I learn from this trip, and (hopefully) apply it to covering all sorts of events. Or it will just be a lesson in making exploration into something worth sharing.
I want to sharpen my eye as a photographer, but not only in the aesthetic sense. I want to create the kind of photos that tell stories. I want to revisit all the great documentary photographers I studied in school, and apply aspects of their techniques to my work. Brassai, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Garry Winogrand... I could list photographers all day.
Among other things, I want to change the world. Artists have always captured history, even before written language did. I know that art is my best chance to communicate something memorable. I need to keep pushing myself.
Here goes nothing, and everything.
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