I began photographing people waking up with the idea that I would witness something unmade and honest about the people who agreed to let me in. I quickly learned my idealist nature toward how I see imagery and the challenges one faces with this approach to interacting with the world. I also sense more from people in the moments I am with them in their space, photographing, than I ever do outside of that position- which makes me more aware of the invisible boundaries each one of us carries. I continue to photograph in this way because in my experience it breaks those boundaries down a little or at least brings them to the surface for the room to feel. The ideals from either party (me as photographer or them as volunteer) laced into the final images are never made up of a single experience; ideals that exist not as disappointing impossibilities but maybe as markers that allow us to acknowledge our own realities. The possibilities from there are then up to the subject. I play with the private versus public meanings of consciousness, what self awareness means when shared and the nature of going in and out of it in the presence of others. I challenge what is usually known as a safe space (peace of mind and the bedroom) with perspective and context and work with the very direct and small scale version of this concept. For anything to be taken away involves trust, letting go, and opening up to a moment with the other (and with the self) without expectation. My interests also include allowance of self expression and the biochemical vs cultural factors involved.
Lindsay was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tucson. After finishing a degree in Graphic Design at the University of Arizona a few years earlier and some time overseas, she returned to northern California in 2009 to enter the Post Baccalaureate program at SFAI. As a continuing student in the masters program she explores conceptual ideas working with people in their private spaces and envisions using her photographs for philanthropic purposes.