MacG Photography & Creative Co-op

12/01/2023

05/28/2023

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So I love Kerouac and Steinbeck. I am a reader and I love poetry. Everyone always asks how I write such decent songs and it’s because I just write a lot in g...

05/20/2023

I had a piece of art stop me dead in my tracks, pull me in, and even called me back after I had walked away for a bit.

A simple beautiful still life, with such texture and depth the items burst off the canvas. The skull and orange halves opening with stringy veins clinging between the two halves… the layering of material, building out off of the canvas. It felt as if you could pull the items right out of the frame.

I had to share my appreciation for the work. Matt () was nice enough to take a moment and talk process with me. He shared about the Baroque, and pallet knife paintings that preceded and contributed to this master work on his table.

05/20/2023

I feel like a fish outta water, finding it hard to turn on, to show up, and to be present. Without my anchor to the Booth I feel lost at sea. The walls are up and like Marcus, whom I met in Fayetteville, reminded me; only I can take them down. Why am I fighting so hard to to hold onto the separateness I feel, alone never and always.

Who knows what will become of day two of this… whatever it is I’m up to, but I did manage to have a few good conversations, met some amazing artists and capture a few moments along the way.

Enjoy

05/19/2023

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05/17/2023

I am a photographer. I capture moments as they unfold, raw and real.

I’m not opposed to the posed moments, family photos etc, but my true expression comes from the moments I catch, the images of the spaces we have built, the strangers and friends I encounter along the way.

The fun part of the work, has and always is, ongoing. Shooting is second nature at this point, that part is effortless and always unfolding.

I've spent my whole life observing watching, and wondering why we do things the way we do. I've spent my whole life seeing trying to understand all the different ways we walk this life. I've spent my spent my whole life collecting pieces, people, things, ideas, images and moments. To what end I didn't not know.

I think I finally might know to what end and now find myself at a place where the real work has to begin. The editing, the compiling, the making sense of all the piece I’ve collected most of my life, on memory cards and hard drives, in notebooks, text messages and voice memos to myself.

I will Continue to collect more pieces but the time for keeping them to myself has passed. Now is the time to Share. Now is the time to put my art out into the world so that these human moments can reach my fellow weary travelers.

I make art in attempts to capture those universal feelings that make us human. I make art to remind others, as it reminds myself, that we are alone Never and always. That the dispare we sometimes feel is immensely self inflicted, and when we enter life with eyes and hearts open we are often reminded in the strangest ways that there are other with us on this strange planet.

“If I don’t paint I die” -K-

Thank you to all the friends and family, all the strangers and single serving friends, all my road homies and the ones who may never know how much our encounters truly meant to me.

Forever grateful for all the love and support you all have already show me and the courage I find in it to finally step into this endeavor fully. To finally stand up and proclaim; My name is Malcolm and I Am A Photographer.

01/14/2022

Thursday January 13th 2022

Time is a tricky bitch

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Alone

Photography has just always been a part of me it seems. A core part of my true personality, something that has been there across all the rolls I’ve played, all of the hats that I have worn. Through them all I have always navigated with my eyes open, observing this thing we call life. Observing it in all the ways it would cross my path, and capturing it through lens at many points along the way.

As I sit here. Here in a space that has served many roles in my life, and before. Much like the images, sitting on glass plates as big as my hand, waiting to be brought back to life. I'm surrounded with reminders of the importance that Art has always played a role in my life. Reminders that I have always been watching, capturing, and searching for those things that make us human, those things that unify us as Humans Being.

Again

As I sit here in this space It is overwhelming. So much to share. A story to be told. That’s one of the universal hard parts of life. Not letting the mountain ahead discourage you from taking the first step.

I endeavor to create. To create some tangible things. Art if you will.

Again

Here I sit, just the music and I. Sitting at this screen. Beginning to organize the ideas, soundbites and Images, yes Images most of all. To dive back into inDeign and see if I remember how to build a layout. Trying to find these threads in images, that move this story I aim to tell from one moment to the next.

The shooting is the fun part. That’s where life happens, out in it. That's where you find the bits that bind us. The sitting down, hands at keys, eyes on screen…that’s the part that feels like work. Not that work is a bad thing, I rather enjoy working hard. This is the part that feels like work in the, Office Space I hate my life, selling your time sort of way.

This space I sit in is nothing short of a musume to the creativity that has always been a part of my life and the beautifully creative people I’ve been blessed to share it with. The walls, littered with paint, pictures, scraps of paper, many of which have hung unmoved for two decades, some of which have been collected and added at different points in that 20 years. Nearly half a dozen different times in my life I have climbed these attic stairs and opened the hatch to find a tornado of things, boxes and all around mess. Each time I would lose the day in cleaning and carving out a space to use. Some of these times involved major construction efforts. Like the time a few years ago when I built a standing desk that makes you feel taller at one end because of the slope in the floor.

Again here I sit, unsure of the first step, just knowing that I would like to share some of that process with you (whomever you may be).

Maybe this in and of itself is that step. Maybe just putting it out there. Expressing my intentions to create.

Anyway

Here unedited in their entirety are my 35mm negatives from my first photography class, In High School. Circa 2002-2003.

09/04/2021

Just get on board already, or don’t, ships leaving with or without you.

10/29/2019

10/10/2019

10/07/2019

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