drew driskell
Street Photographer
I am a photographer working primarily in 35mm analog format. Usually in black and white. Occasionally in color.
Way back in 1996 I was asked to write an artist's Statement for a college assignment.
It read something like this:
"I'm trying my damnedest to not say anything at all."
I didn't receive high marks for the assignment at first. However, After convincing my professor that I truly intended every word that wasn't there, I was given a passing grade (though probably barely).
To this day I genuinely feel as though an image should speak to the viewer in exactly the way that they need to see it. I have no hidden agenda in my street work. I'm not making a political statement. I'm not making a social statement. I am truly trying to make no statement at all.
Each image should, on its own, say only what each individual viewer wants it to say... to them.
I have captured many images that mean something very specific to me. I have captured even more that mean absolutely nothing to me.
they may, however, mean something entirely different to another observer and I have zero interest in dictating how my viewership interprets my work.