Welcome To The World’s First Dark Sky Island is up today on ThisisPaper “This short, ongoing essay was started in 2014 and is a chapter of a growing larger long term book project on small islands. Based on Alex Cretey Systermans’ life obsession with remote islands, using both the languages of fiction and documentary, this project wanders through a series of small community islands around the world, chosen both for their poetic qualities and and their slightly twisted, or complex history…”
I have always been a storyteller and I am always working towards the book as the final work. It’s very hard to tell a story with those types of single stand-alone street images. I am interested in ideas. I am not interested in doing the same thing over and over again. The reason I take photographs is to make discoveries for myself. Always trying to piece together the puzzle, that’s where I get my rush. Once I find the answer I am looking for that’s usually it for a project, the excitement and energy is gone. I move onto something else, or away from that subject matter until I can view it with fresh eyes again.
My good friend Max Marshall has put together a Snapchat exhibition with Paul Paper. You might remember Blog/Reblog which they also curated together. Follow the Snapchat user “THISISITNOWSHOW” to receive the exhibit feed. Wow, this is fun, I feel like the language of exhibiting needs to evolve to accommodate more shows like this!
