About joYgiRL.

To me, photography is about me becoming who I am. Photography is soul-searching. Photography is meditation. I am able to leave the shell of my body and express my thoughts, my sights, my emotions.
I find that , very often, I do not include a subject's head or the entire surface of their body--either by cropping or by blurring. Often I do this because it is not particularly the person's likeness that I am attempting to capture. I am trying to capture a feeling--sometimes their feeling--sometimes mine. I am attempting to express that feeling to the viewer. At times, the feeling is emotional: happiness, love, sadness, loneliness. At other times, the feeling is physical: the slope of a woman's collar bone, the warmness and comfort of light.
I do not expect other people to like or to even understand my photography. My photography is not about other people. My photograhy is about myself. At times, I do not even understand these images because it comes from a place that is deep within me--or a place that hovers around me. At certain times I am able to enter this other place and capture images. These are those images.

E-mail me at ribsmalone@hotmail.com

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