Brain Training

What follows is a brief and jokeless explanatory note on my Digital Photo gallery:

I have spent the last 6 years traveling the US as a real estate photographer. This has put me in strange places - wandering residential communities in the middle of the day, just looking around. Noticing things.

Most of the time it’s hard to consider the visual details of our residential environments because our brains have registered much of the information as irrelevant. Having processed the same information hundreds or thousands of times, we walk through these environments with our eyes closed, figuratively speaking - brains on autopilot. Over time, my brain has been trained to notice the unnoticed things - to find the beauty, humor, and mystery in the silent and ignored places of neighborhoods, homes, and communities.

These digital images are focused on environmental details and singling out specific items by centering them in the frame - making them conspicuous. My desire is that these photos spur you to reassess what is beautiful and worth noticing, to create stories based on these unremarkable settings. I like to imagine a movie was filmed and I arrived on set after the wrap to document the debris and bits of story left behind. Enjoy the quiet of these images. Create your own stories to fill their significance.

Photo Prints

If you peruse this website, you maybe might eventually happen across a photograph or two. If perchance, the photo or two strikes a fancy in you, please contact me to request prints - I just might be able to print one and ship it to you in a tube. I will add some prints to the shop eventually, but I will only have a limited inventory of prints at any given time. Sizing and pricing depend on the photo - some film images may be limited in size by the available scan resolution. Please and thank you and goodbye for now.

“Photographic prints are significant evidence that reality exists.”

— UNIQUE EDMOND

Introductions.

Hello, and How Are You?

Well, now that we’ve got that out of the way. Please allow me to say, “How are you?” Great. I just wanted to say thanks for looking at my art. I, Collin, have been making and hoarding it for many moons, waiting for the right time to send it out into the world. Well, the time has come, and it is now. So here it is. There’s a lot to take in, so please don’t rush. If you’ve read thus far, you may realize I’m better with pictures than with words. And also, goodbye - may you have many smiles until next time.

Believe in the magic of your dreams.

- Phileppo Joeutineli