tangible memories

If I do not photograph and document a particular place, do I actually see it and experience it? Without the artifact of documenting, how real is the experience? Without the tangible memory, how can the particular instance live on?

I feel that whenever I am experiencing a place, I have to document it. I have to capture that particular moment, that time of day, that mood, or that setting. These photographic transcriptions are time capsules to “freeze” and then evoke the particular characteristics of the places I visit and want to record for myself to remember, and re-represent for others to see.

These are not narratives or stories. Rather, they are perceptions of settings which are capturing something that existed for a stretch of time, something that may or may not be repeated or re-experienced. Through my transcription and translation, I hope to capture that character to prevent it from being lost forever.