by david chancellor. here is his webpage.

he is a photographer from south africa but i am really drawn to the pieces that have a flavor of the american west.






something about these resonate on a level with me that has to do with being totally outside. vastness of air and dirt. the feeling of being lonely and safe, or unsafe, of solidarity. you do not stay too still for too long at the same time that your motion comparative to the landscape is so insignificant that this necessary motion is meaningless, is rendered into stillness.

it is difficult to find the same whirling stillness in the city where i currently live.



the photographs also resonate on a level concerning personal strength and integrity. maybe the feeling is just a product of the aforementioned outside-ness -- of how the sense of self becomes distilled. i am jealous of this girl's sure look.

i know that i am romanticizing but i need to do it right now.
i need dirt and sunburn and outside-aloneness!