A Special Day With David Lykes Keenan - The Camera
Ghoul, New York City, 2009 Photo © David Lykes Keenan |
Cat in Brooklyn, NYC, 2010 Photo © David Lykes Keenan |
Trey + Passerby, Austin, 2010 Photo © David Lykes Keenan |
The Camera is also a crutch, something to hide behind. It is what is
welcomed, not me. Without the Camera, I do not belong. Forever, I am on
the outside looking in, the Camera, however, grants me temporary
admission. Behind it, I see life as it could be, then perhaps, with a
click of the shutter, I take a little bit of that life with me.
Mannequin, NYC, 2010 Photo © David Lykes Keenan |
Monument Shadows, NYC 2011 Photo © David Lykes Keenan |
Without the Camera, I would be adrift in his sea of humanity,
completely at the mercy of the Ache. I’m in the autumn of my years, I’m
still waiting for a very good year.
The Camera has become a physical manifestation of Hope and something I am never without.
“Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures,” said the American photographer Nan Goldin.
The Camera is Life.
— David Lykes Keenan, 2011
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