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<p>I shoot B&W film pretty much all of the time. The only color pictures I take are with my phone and those are usually regarded as like keeping a visual journal where I might be interested in coming back to a location or exploring a new theme. Since I do my own developing and printing for B&W and I don't know how to do the same for color it just makes sense to skip shooting color film to me anyways. Besides, most of the 1-hour labs around Los Angeles have closed and taking a roll to a pro lab costs over $20 which is simply out of my budget these days. I also have aesthetic reasons for shooting B&W film but that would take too long to get into and probably be boring to read anyway. </p>

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<p>From about 2008</p><div></div>

<p>"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan</p>

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<p>Very true. I'm always in "photographer mode" even when I don't have a camera with me except for my phone which gets a fair amount of use. I'll use it much like a sketch book and will revisit a place I found to have potential. </p><div></div>

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<p>When I first began shooting square earlier this year.</p><div></div>

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<p>I'm not sure what the "soul" of any given scene is supposed to mean and even if I did I'm not sure if it could even be described in a photograph the way I intend it to. It's not something I care about either and by that I mean I have various reasons for why I shoot and for the most part these reasons aren't quite clear to me and may never be and that's OK. I enjoy the act and for the sake of simplicity that's what I tell people. However people want to interpret my work is up to them and whatever conclusions they arrive at is also OK with me. Life is complicated enough, why make it more so? </p>