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Name	Otto Kitchens

Gender	Male

Age	44

Location	Atlanta, US

Web	http://www.ottokphotography.com/ http://portfolio....

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I photograph because I have a passion for it. It's that simple.

I have struggled in the past to find the right words to describe what drives much of my art. And then I read an article on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi: finding magic in the ordinary...in the flawed. As Leonard Loren said: "Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things unconventional." Wabi-sabi is what I seek when I explore an abandoned factory or walk the streets of a city or find a deserted house in a field.

I shoot with a growing arsenal of film cameras, ranging from high precision cameras with multiple lenses to cheap plastic cameras to a very basic pinhole camera. I have a digital SLR that works quite well, but I just don't use it that much anymore. I love developing film and working in the darkroom, getting my hands wet so to speak. There is something magical about creating images in the analog world, and I don't usually get that same feeling with digital.

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keith

Welcome to Creativestem Otto!

posted 25 May 2008

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