Darkroom Photography

I travelled to Paris on an art-focused enrichment trip the spring of my final semester in college. I brought along my two cameras—film and digital (both hand-me-downs from my Grandpa Lou)— and two or three rolls of black-and-white film. (I ended up purchasing more film from a Parisian photo shop because I used my initial rolls up very fast.)

I was inspired to photograph these parks by my professor and major advisor, Michael Kolster, who had recently published his own photo book, “Paris Park Photographs,” which presents many complex and uncanny views encountered upon returning to the same iconic parks and gardens in which19th/20th century photographer Eugene Atget took his photographs. In my trips to the parks I was interested in observing the geometric precision and near-personification of the landscape.