Rev·er·ie

/ˈrev(ə)rē/ - noun

plural noun: reveries

A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.

“Reveries” is a project that — when completed — will serve as the subject of my first self-produced Photobook. After more than a decade of photography, this collection is my attempt to explore an elusive feeling that some locations have. Try as I might there are not words for this feeling. Recognition of the foreign? Comfort with a side of unease? Nostalgia for a thing that never happened to you? Maybe it’s the feeling that you are the last person left on earth and at any moment someone is going to walk around the corner. I don’t know what to call it, but these places — and the photos I take there — feel for lack of a better description, as though they were stolen from a dream; so I have taken to calling them Reveries. This is a 100% vibes based project. Images are reveries in as far as they feel to me like reveries. Many of these works employ the early techniques of pictorialism such as low texture, heavy grain, and negative space to showcase the subjects in a “dreamlike” state. Many of them are man-made spaces intended to be bustling with life, now removed from that context. Regardless, for every trend, there is a counterexample. The only thing all these images share is that beautiful nebulous unknown that makes them all reveries.