Shooting in the Dark

Written By Lone Morch

I’ve been shooting in the dark lately. Literally. Figuratively. Metaphorically. 

I want to experiment with new style. Play with light. A fascination with the light inspired me to pick up a camera 15 some years ago, and I’m still here, looking at the light, the way it directs my attention, makes me see, feel, respond. 

I want to try to give expression to images that’s been ebbing and flowing on my inner sea of consciousness for a long while. Images that don’t have to be pretty, pleasing to others. Dreamy. Weird. Good weird. Maybe they carry meaning, a story, a new direction. Maybe they are just muses, like the woman in the photo, and they call me to the sheer joy of creating, experimenting, trying. Something. Just because. 

Remember when you did things "just because?" I remember those early days of shooting. Being a beginner, innocent to the trade and techniques, but drawn to analog, to the textural black and whites, in a fast world turning to digits or hot colors. My personal aesthetics not yet developed, defined. Unencumbered by earlier successes, expectations and habits. Free to explore, fumble and fail. 

Vast terrain to be traversed, mapped, perhaps claimed. Once again. 

Feel humbled standing there, fumbling with the camera in the dark, as if I don't know shit, and yet, happy-dancing with gleeful discovery when the unexpected emerge, the thing I couldn't have planned. 

I'm eying new light. In the dark.

Lone Morch
Lone Mørch is an award-winning author, photographer. speaker and teacher. Born in Denmark, she's traveled the world, living and working in Europe, Asia and America—a path that has given her a profound sense of freedom and understanding of the influence of culture on female identity. Themes of female symbolism, archetypes and autonomy are central in her work as as she explores the crossroads between veils, words, art, politics, body and self. The founder of Lolo’s Boudoir, she's photographed hundreds of women since 2004, helping them transform their self-images and reconnect to their bodies and personal power. Lone has been featured in InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Photographers Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Examiner Modern Love, East Bay Express, 7x7 Magazine and in Danish magazines such as Femina, Nova, Kiwi, B.T and Q. Her own writing has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Magical Blend Magazine, Nepal Expat Magazine, Nyt Aspect, Nova, Samvirke and anthologies such as To Nepal With Love (2013) and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me God (2012). Her memoir, Seeing Red, tells the story of her spiritual quest sparked at the sacred Mt. Kailas in the Himalayas, and her subsequent decade in America––as wife, woman and creative spirit–trying to make sense of her own relationship to the sacred, to personal power and the sacrifices required to live an honest life attuned to one’s soul and core values. It has won the Tanenbaum Literary Award, Honorary Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival, and the Bronze Medal in the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. Unveiled (working title) is her second book. Based upon the past decade of photographing women, this chronicle of women's voices and images tells what the photographs alone cannot—that undressing is an act of shedding stories of doubt and shame to stand as a sovereign woman, free in body and spirit. In her prior lives, she holds a Masters Degree from Aalborg University in Political Science and Change, has worked as development associate with Care Nepal, team manager for the Kaospilot University and media producer at Ideagarden productions in San Francisco. She splits her time between USA and Europe. Learn more about her work here: lonemorch.com
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