timeofthethieves:

time of the thieves introduce you to Trevor Powers

ttt. Tell us about yourself .

T.P. My name is Trevor and I am 26 years old.

ttt. Where were you born and where do you live?

T.P. I was born in Burlington, Vermont and I moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 2004 to study photography, where I still currently live and work.  Boston is a very transitory city in that it’s nearly all students and it’s rare for people to live here longer than four years. There are a lot of fantastic things happening in regards to DIY venues for art and music, so there is a huge amount of positive creative energy around, you just might have to dig for it.

 

This image is part of the same project as the photograph of the girl floating in the water.  The project is called Sleep The Clock Around and it’s long since over and put away.  I feel like I learned what I needed to learn from making those pictures and I’m happy with that.  This one was taken on my front porch right after it had rained.  

ttt. When did you start working with photography and why?

T.P. I started actively working with photography in a serious, “artistic” manner when I was probably about 14 or 15.  I was into skateboarding and punk and hardcore music, but wasn’t very good at skateboarding and I wasn’t in a band, so photographing these things was a way for me to be part of the scene. 

ttt. What are your favorites artists or which artists have influenced your work and why?

T.P. Nigel Shafran, Rinko Kawauchi and Garry Winogrand (among countless others) because they make or have made work that serves as a way to record their own lives, experiences and to help themselves better understand and appreciate the world in which they live.  I like that their work is so clearly for themselves above all else, that you know they would have made the same images regardless if people saw them or not.  The fact that other people like their work is just a testament to their intuition, passion for looking, and honesty to themselves.

 

This is also part of the Sleep The Clock Around project.  This was taken in Providence, Rhode Island. 

ttt. What are the elements that inspire you in your work ?

T.P. Lately it’s been weird cosmic connections and happenings that are far more than just coincidences.  And dogs, of course.

ttt. Tell us about your creative process.

T.P. A lot of the photographs I have made came from me wanting to spend more time with whatever I was photographing, be it a person or place.  I get this kind of image in my head, and think about how I want it to look and try to make it.  This is the thing I like about using a large format camera – you have the ability to take full control over what the image will look like.  Of course there is a bit of chance because of the nature of film, but that’s also kind of nice.

 

Another picture from that same project - towards the end of making those images, I began to become more interested in the objects and relics that surrounded myself and my subject.  

ttt. Did you have an experience that you considerate relevant in your formation as a photographer?

T.P. The book Once by Wim Wenders.

ttt. In which place would you like to be exposed and which project would you like to show there?

T.P. I suppose if I had to pick a place, I would say wherever I could possibly be exposed in the real world – a wall in a gallery, living room, bathroom, or an alleyway… just some place where others and myself could interact with my work away from a computer screen.

 

This is Emma standing on a table outside.  She is my friend Paige’s corgi.  Emma is an old, wise, and beautiful lady.  

ttt. Recommend us something that you consider interesting. Tell us why.

T.P. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: http://archive.org/web/web.php.

The Internet Archive is important, especially to visual artists and people working within the digital realms of creativity.

ttt. What is your favorite place?

T.P. A small town in northern Florida called Apalachicola.  It’s really beautiful.

 

ttt. Can you tell us in what circumstances you made this image?

T.P. This image was taken on July 11th, 2011 at 11:55am at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. It was shot at f/11 at 1/250th of a second at 320 ISO on Kodak Portra 400NC.  It is the 54th picture I took in this project, the third to last.  It was a really hot day and it was the birthday of the girl in the photograph.

ttt. If you could associate this image with something what would it be?

T.P. Belle and Sebastian – Sleep The Clock Around

ttt.  What do you feel when you look at this picture?

T.P.  Relief.

gstp:

Trevor Powers and Ginevra Shay are excited to announce the release of their book, TOO MANY PLACES AND TIMES TO REMEMBER.

Driving into the great unknown, the South was our West. We weren’t sure what we would find, or even what we were looking for, we just knew we had to get out and see some place new. We knew that whatever we were looking for, we’d eventually stumble upon. Through exploring the south we not only learned more about the region in which we live, but more about each other and ourselves.

Trevor Powers and Ginevra Shay have traveled together and photographed extensively throughout the southeast region of the United States. This book brings together photographs from their trips and selections from a shared journal the artists mailed back and forth to one another.

Published June 2012

First Edition

Edition of 50

80 Pages

Perfect Bound

Full Color, Full Bleed

8.5x11”

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