Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: James Felder
Getting Down with the Magnum 1962 Vibe by James Felder
After a late night lying in bed, kept up by a combination of caffeine, creative juices desperately needing to be squeezed, and me jumping up every few minutes to jot down my newest and greatest plan, I have a naive question to pose for a rainy New York evening.
As artists and creative people of all shapes and sizes, we manage to generate bundles of ideas for projects we would love to dedicate the next hefty chunk of available time to. Ideas that come and go by the minute and by the hundreds, with only a small fraction being found worthy of execution - so what makes one worthy over another? Is it really that they are the best we have to offer, the projects we see having the most potential at being relevant and provoking? [I'm not so sure we always have that sort of radar.] Or is it that simply because these ideas stick around long enough to receive our love and attention, to be molded into something we think is stellar. And how many of the projects we act on are utter failures in the end anyhow, this internal radar for potentially good work often lets us down.
OK, enough. There was my day-after-a-sleepless-night attempt at offering up something insightful… And I suppose it is a moot point anyway, but it’s the thought of the hour nonetheless.
Now on that note, I offer you an image from today’s aspiring Hot Shot James Felder’s Camera Malfunction Collaborations. On the work he says, “They’re the result of freakiness going on in the camera while I shot — my gear putting its special fingerprint on our work.” One of the ideas James found worthy, it supports what he says is his main goal as a photographer: “To take pictures that subjectively capture the moment I’m living through.” Which I suppose is, to some degree, the main goal of most of us. So get ‘em out there and enter today!
