shades of grey

Nothing is ever black and white. Exploring the truth of "both/and" through black and white photography.
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am·biv·a·lence [noun]

2. Psychology. the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

I don't like ambivalence. I hate feeling two conflicting things at once. Love and Hate. Hope and Hopelessness. Desire and Disgust. It seems impossible that I could carry such dissonance within me. But I do. Ambivalence is a daily part of my life. Nothing is ever black and white.

So in an attempt to embrace the ambivalence that I can't escape, I am embarking on a journey. I am going to spend the next year exploring light and shadow through the medium of black-and-white photography. I will post a new photo every day, hoping that they will somehow make sense of this world of opposites that I live in, where black and white co-exist, and where I'm somehow always existing in shades of grey.

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life." -- Stefan Zweig