JAIME BIRD
“Going Forward, Looking Back,” black and white photograph, Jaime Bird, 2019
My photography connects modern life and the comforting, familiar nostalgia of yesterday. Extracting moments of the quiet mundane to the emotional warfare of protests, the photos I create are the visible results of the lives I have fated to a frame. Love letters to a city that embraces us on it’s sidewalks, keeping us close by in the buildings that house us. These images are my response and reaction to a circumstance, an encounter, or an expression. Always working candidly as an observer, documenting what comes before me in the form of life unfolding. Drawing my eye to a detail, giving me only enough information to create my own narrative. And in this small detail, this seemingly unknown minutia, a fragment that might not even be known to the subject, unfolds the unlimited possibility of story telling.