present nostalgia

Present nostalgia. What does that even mean?

nostalgia- a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.

and the present I think we all know what the present is. sometimes you hear a song for the first time and it gives you present nostalgia and sometimes you hear a song and it takes you back to a place. or a time.

What I think happens on home/family or what I call kinfolk shoots is present nostalgia. Its noticing the things that make your life what it is now, the little rituals, the toys, the colours, the people, the dwelling, how everything is decorated, with an eye to it all passing.

Truthfully my favourite part of being an artist is keeping one foot in the world of the present and one foot in nostalgia. I feel like I look at a lot of my life all of the time with this longing for what is and longing for change it helps me be present to the moment while changes are barreling towards me. Next year I will have two teenagers. in two years I will have three. And not that long ago I was giving birth or breastfeeding, not that long ago I was single and travelling around the country, not that long ago I was at boarding school. I don’t know if its add or just me but I have this weird relationship with time, it feels like a river I have one foot in the river of time the other foot is on the land, the unchanging part of me is observing the whirl that is my life. Stepping into clients home I feel like I can see the now and the future and the past at the same time.

I hope my images are also outside of time, I want every frame to feel out of trends to feel timeless, to give you that very real sense of nostalgia for the present.