Photography
Trying to Find My Way
Personal
A series made during a period of transition — photographs as a way of thinking through uncertainty, displacement, and the experience of being mid-route.
What was happening
The camera as a way of not knowing.
The photographs in this series were made during a period of genuine uncertainty. They are not illustrations of a thesis — they were made because the act of making them was clarifying when nothing else was.
To photograph is to make a claim about what matters. These images are a record of what kept asserting its importance even when the larger questions had no answers.
David’s role
Displacement is its own kind of seeing.
People who are in transition notice different things. The photographs here were made by someone who did not know quite where he was, which turned out to be an advantage.
The series is about navigation in the broadest sense — not just physical wayfinding, but the attempt to locate yourself in time, in relationship, in purpose.