INTRODUCING JON ESTWARDS
I’m from Windsor, Ontario and it was horrible living there, but I moved to Montreal and it feels much nicer now. I am 21. I’ve been taking pictures my whole life but I started getting serious about “photography” when I was 15.
It started by looking at photography online and wanting to start having polaroids of life. When I got to use a polaroid camera when I was 15 I started being very sensitive about it. I want to create new worlds, using photos as a portal to realms that I’m not sure exist, turning fantasy into reality. I don’t just use photography for this, I’m working to make this pretty tangible. Photography has been important for documenting ideas and abstract thoughts, and I usually forget about these things if I don’t preserve it in photographic form. Everything can also link to a future idea. I use a polaroid camera. This is a picture of me playing zither, but you can only see the bottom of it because I didn’t get it in the shot. I left it in Windsor and I don’t know when I’ll be able to use it in a photo again. I never got a good photo of it for some reason but it’s a very nice zither. I don’t know too many photographers, but I like whoever took this photo because why not?