This is the Red Chair Project – a series focused on creating a deeper connection with photography.
The most difficult things to create in a photograph are a sense of scale and a way to intimately connect with the viewer. Scale is always difficult to convey without a human sized element in view. With the Red Chair Project, every photograph has a relatable element of scale.
Perhaps nothing is more important in a photograph than creating a sense of intimacy. The Red Chair Project is an attempt to do just that. The chair's story is one of childhood memories, loss and redemption. It was in my bedroom growing up as a young boy - a visual staple of my youth. As an adult, I left the chair behind only to believe for years that it had been lost in the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Years after, I discovered the chair hadn't been lost but had been stored away. Upon its recovery, I knew instantly I wanted to incorporate it prominently into my photography.
For this series, I wanted to convey the immense scale of the deserts and dunes of the American Southwest. It's no easy task carrying the chair through miles and miles of soft sand up and down towering dunes. But the result is worth it - a way to show the incredible expansiveness of the landscape itself and the environment it exists in as well.
