Ezra Carlsen
This last year, we've experienced something momentous together, and yet, in pressing pause on our everyday lives, I don't think I'm alone in feeling that time is both passing rapidly and standing still.
Maybe photographs are always preoccupied with time passing, and maybe I am too. It's a preoccupation that shapes the way I'm seeing my work today, even work made in the few years leading up to 2020. I carry a 35mm camera with me wherever I go, alternating between color and black and white film, making connections in the shapes and shades of the streets. This series is an exploration of our anachronisms, reaching for the past, asking what our nostalgia can bring us, and what we might let go.