Here is my artist rough artist statement that will accompany the portfolio:
The majority of my life has been about transitions. Over the past ten years I have moved thirteen times and I often find that the constant changes are more taxing than I expected. Despite, my desire to move forward and progress, I can’t help but miss the people and places from my past. I question my decisions and choices and sometimes wonder if I had passed up something better. The constant motion of my life has left me feeling older and more guarded. Each time I move to a new place I have to start from square one and build a new life for myself. Sometimes, this constant re-constructing makes me feel alone and, as I approach age 30, a desire to settle down.
My black and white photographs are representation of my most recent transition…my last year in Boston and my move to the West Coast. They are a depiction of the temporary spaces in which I settled, the people I had become close to, and the exploration of my new “home” in San Francisco. Many of the photographs are taken at night, as this was the time of day I was most free to photograph. I choose to handhold the camera, as I am interested in capturing quick, fleeting experiential moments, which coincides with the constantly moving transitional periods in my own life. I am attracted to the work of photographers such as Robert Frank and Daido Moriyama as they employ
a similar aesthetic to generate an experiential quality.
My color photographs are an investigation into domestic spaces and the daily routines and habits that arise from living in them. The split form allows for more of the domestic space to be shown and helps create a narrative within each individual photograph. In many of the photographs I choose to use myself as the subject in order to
investigate my own domestic life and how it functions. I am alone in the scenes because, in my recent life, these are tasks I perform solely for myself.
Adam Donnelly
