Communicating with Shadows

Opening a door to mysterious lucidity…
colliding with caves dug by souls in search of obscurity
souls who spent lifetimes to unlearn what is tangible to discover magic,
walking through walls, to communicate with shadows,
accepting the unusual, and holding dear its seldomness
for we will all open our eyes.

—Dylan Kane Landin

As a child I was fascinated with the magic of the camera. There was something mystical, almost holy, about a piece of time captured that could be viewed again and again and that could evoke memories and emotions so intensely.

In making photographs I'm not always clear about my intention. I seem almost to be led to these images. There is something of the search for the self, something too of a journey into the realm of the Other.

Of every photograph I make there’s a place that looks like this in the deepest part of me… I find myself there unexpectedly, and the going there can only be reached without thought… My images are my voice, sometimes a whisper, sometimes not.

My photographs are born from my heart. I do this thing called taking pictures for my needs and for my wholeness as much as I do it for the capturing and the sharing.