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Exposing Memories and Dreams with @photoaskew
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On his eighth birthday, Fred Askew (@photoaskew) received a momentous gift. It was a Leica M3 camera, bestowed on him by his beloved grandfather — a painter, a musician and an avid large-format, glass plate photographer. The elder artist died many years ago, yet remains a huge influence on Fred, who grew up to become a musician himself, playing drums for a time in a touring rock band, and then a news photographer documenting conflict overseas and political unrest at home in New York City.
In his gallery, Fred finds creative refuge, a place to practice a more personal sort of journalism through poetic text and imagery shot and manipulated mostly with his phone. His dreamscapes explore themes that haunt him, such as “the insanity of aging” and “memories that don’t sleep.”
His distressed images recall not only his grandfather’s process but also his own early days experimenting with frugal techniques — walking on negatives, scratching photo paper, pouring coffee over his lenses — when he couldn’t afford the chemicals and tools of an analog darkroom. Then, as now, says Fred, “I was finding a new layer to photography. I could make prints look closer to how I saw them in my heart.”
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