The name David Carol may sound familiar. He writes the Emerging Photographer Column for PDN and is a regular contributor to Rangefinder Magazine with his Photo Finish column. He’s a taste maker and booming voice in the fine art community (often juroring
Take your work seriously, but not yourself. Have fun with it and don’t worry about being in shows, making books or selling your work. Just focus on taking pictures that please and satisfy you. If, let’s say after 10 or 15 years you have enough good stuff to make a book or have a show that’s fantastic. But at the end of the day if you’re gonna commit your life to doing this, you better be taking the photos that make you happy.
Take your work seriously, but not yourself. I think a lot of photographers get caught up in nonsense. They worry about their work in all sorts of ways. Don’t waste time and energy worrying. Just go out and have fun, see the world around you and keep shooting. If you’re passionate, devoted and maybe have some talent in 10 or 20 years you might have a nice body of work. If you don’t, at least you had fun along the way!!
By today’s standards David Carol is an “Old School” photographer. He shoots only Tri-X film using Leicas and Hasselblad rangefinders. His film is hand developed in Rodinal and printed on fiber based paper using a point source enlarger. David will show examples of his work and discuss his career and how he approaches taking pictures.
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. …
Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. The surrounding ground is a patchwork of grass and dirt, with a barren tree lurking on the edges of the fame. This bleak looking scene is not enhanced by the mirrored reflection of an oil well rig ringed by an overcast sky. The wedding dressed manikin is facing inward, with the reflected oil rig positioned such that it is just above the back shoulder out of the field of vision. This is a dark story about love and romance with a fairy tale wedding story, but looming in the background is the reality of a rough and tumble working life working out in the plains. This same mixture of humor and pathos seems to run though David Carol’s photobook All My Lies Are True.
