Jenny Spadafora

I like to look.

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Artist's Statement

I like to stop and look at things, and I don't care if people look at me funny. This behavior propelled me to get my first digital camera. Crows are attracted to shiny things: I'm attracted to the spaces and places when something hits me and I really see it, as if for the first time.

It can happen with tree trunks I notice while waiting for a cab. My fixation with water towers every time I visit New York is evidence of it. Whenever I get my favorite flowers (purple tulips) I am fascinated by them -- other times, I'm bored and waiting for the shuttle bus to pick me up at the office and I get distracted by something that has been in the parking lot every day yet escaped my notice until just that moment. If I'm lucky enough to visit a museum that allows photography, I'll probably take a photograph of part of an object -- the part that really grabbed my attention. Then again, I could just be watching common, ordinary birds go about their day when I think, that's it, and press the shutter. Sometimes I make things bigger than they really and shoot macro, or use Photoshop to create extreme black and white or some effect that mimics a camera or lens I don't actually have, with the the end result being that I capture what I really saw. Even if it didn't look quite that way when I saw it.

My work is about the unexpected, possibly imagined magic in the everyday. It's there waiting for all of us, if we only look.

Favorite Photos (of mine)

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