INTRODUCING CHARLES GUTHRIE (blog)
I come from a number of places. I was born in Orlando, grew up in New York City and then moved to Virginia. After school I decided to move back to New York, and since then I’ve been traveling around quite a bit. I spent the last year of my life living in China, and traveling around Asia, but now I’m back in Virginia. I feel like everyone needs a home, and the more you travel the more you learn to appreciate where you come from. I’m 22. I remember shooting old polaroids as a kid, disposables, and goofy panoramic cameras my parents used to buy. Then when I was about 15 I took my first real interest in Graphic Design… At the end of high school was probably my first leap into photography. I think it was a purely selfish interest. I was interested in most all art mediums.. but while traveling it was a personal diary of everything around me. After I really started looking at my work I realized how much I wanted to continue making photographs. Both my main series Lately Its Been Late, and Cheat Death are very personal. To have people appreciate the photographs I make, is enough for me to keep making them. I think I’m constantly finding things I want to make photos of. During high school, I took a big interest in this girl, I was so captivated by her beauty that it made me want to photograph her. Now we’re together. In general I am really happy with almost all Contax products. The new one in my bag hasn’t seen much yet. This is one of my favorite photographs. I took it at the great wall when I was in Beijing, china. The father is wearing the yellow, mother in pink, and she is holding her child in green. It’s a very eerie photograph to me that’s very interesting to look at. Yurie Nagashima is one of my favorite photographers. The way she assembles her series and books is simply perfect. She was a really influential photographer in the history of Japanese photography and her work is definitely up there with my favorites.
