INTRODUCING IAN STANTON
I currently live in Los Angeles. I love living here, although I still feel like I am not getting the most of what the city has to offer. I try and find time to explore, looking for interesting hikes and “hidden spots.” As a photographer, Los Angeles weather lends itself wonderfully to the art. It’s a rare occurrence where I’d have to cancel an outing or a shoot due to temperamental weather. I am 20 years old. I started taking photos the summer of 2009, 1 year ago. I was a jazz performance (saxophone) major my freshman year in college when my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. It became progressively difficult to play jazz because so much of it had this attachment to my father, who was always extremely supportive of my music. I eventually put down the saxophone and picked up my fathers leica m7. My goals varie with the project I’m working on. Sometimes my photographic aims are to just take beautiful images. More recently I’ve been working with projects where concept supersedes aesthetics. I feel like my eyes have become more aware of the constant beauty that surrounds us in everyday life. I also feel like it’s helped push my creative and conceptual thinking. Without photography I would have never have found visual beauty in the most monotonous of tasks and chores. This is a picture of my friend Thomas, a fellow Fine Arts major at my college. We went out on a spontaneous outing to Sunken City in San Pedro, California. This site is where the 600 block of Paseo Del Mar, in the 1930s, literally slipped off a cliff and into the ocean. What’s left are housing pipes, brick walls, large strips of pavement and a whole lot of graffiti. We had to hop a few fences to get there, but it was well worth it. The constant critique on pervertism in art and the perforated logic by TORBJØRN RØDLAND has been a great inspiration for some of my latest workings.
