Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Sara Code-Kroll
Place Setting by HHS! Hopeful Sara Code-Kroll
Now that you’ve all gotten your work in and anxiously await the results, I’ll continue to humor your curious sides. Keep in mind this is only a selection of spotlights chosen by yours truly, one that I hope offers some insight into your competition.
I recently attempted a similar project as that of aspiring Hot Shot Sara Code-Kroll. There really is nothing like the feeling of returning to a place where one once lived––the excitement of bathing in such nostalgia is really up there on my list of life’s greatest little pleasures. My attempt, however, was thwarted by the frenzy that results from such pure pleasure. Forty sheets of film later and not a single success, my photographic adventure came to its overdue end. Sara seems to be a bit more in control.
The submitted images were taken in North Dakota. I spent the first eighteen years of my life there– a state most people have never been to. After moving away for college, I was resentful of this strange place that I called home. I viewed being from North Dakota as a setback, something that made me feel sheltered and naïve. Since then, I have spent the past ten years living in places very different from my home state. Now when I go home, I am taken aback by the strangely beautiful place that used to be so familiar, yet now feels so foreign. These pictures are a result of a visual exploration of my home state, one which led to my gradual realization that where I come from has been significant in determining who I have become.
The anticipation is killing me. With so much great work, who will the talented 10 be? Stay tuned.
