"A picture should be the recreation of an event rather than an illustration of an object," explained painter Francis Bacon about the images on his canvases. There should be "tension in the picture [where] there is a struggle with the object." For Bacon, "real imagination is technical imagination. It is in the ways you think up to bring an event to life again. It is in the search to trap the object at a given moment. Then the technique and the object become inseparable."
I see sculpture in my friends when I go out. That's what I'm trying to photograph with my camera askew, oddly close for some to faces or shoulders or necks or whatever else someone cares to bare.
Who is out on any given night doesn't necessarily convey the feel of that night out. So, here, I want to show last Friday's fantastical F Word party through the movement of and juxtaposition of shots I took of three of its go-go boys: Johnny (above), Matthew (below), and Scott (further below).
I thank them all for letting me stand so close and snap away. I know that their job includes more than just being decoratively almost-naked eye candy.
They complement the DJ's beats, complete the night's mood. They signal more than the availability their undress might suggest. They embody the freedom that a good night out can give you. Sometimes, they serve as a model for a certain kind of freedom you can when the music moves you. I know I always say that I've done my job DJing when someone decides to disrobe on the dance floor. Too bad that security often tells them to put their clothes back on.
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