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A Nomad’s Photographic Journal
Daniel Colvin is a travel, lifestyle, and wedding photographer from Houston, Texas. Every year he disappears for a few months to ‘go adventuring’ and shares the best images from this trips on his website and instagram account. In his own words:
For as long as I can remember I’ve had an insatiable hunger for discovery. As a kid I wanted to dig into anything and everything I could, from history to art to my front yard (yes, literally - I had a paleontology phase). That translated over the years into various forms of light rebellion, fueled by an inner desire to branch away and continue that pursuit of discovery on my own terms. Since college I’ve developed a pretty serious addiction to solo travel, and can’t imagine that itch will ever be fully scratched.
Images and text via
Nabi Jeong Lok Lee
With light, I have been painting something that exists despite its invisible nature; places that correspond to the visible world, places beyond our sensual cognition, profoundly mysterious places that nevertheless cannot be separated from our world of cognition. Painting with light is the body, mind, and the soul harmoniously following the rhythm; it was an act of delivering positive energy felt by the body, rather than creating something from nothing.
There is a space in which reason dissipates. That is a special place which is outside of the fence of concepts. The place is outside and inside of my self at the same time; when I reach that place, I do not merely depend on my sight, but I exploit all of my senses. When all senses are unlocked, a new world is opened. While creating this peace, I summarized lights in various symbolic forms into nabi, the butterfly. The butterfly, symbolizing a being moving from this world to the other, a spirit, was used to signify a gate and a messenger linking the two worlds. Nabi, the title of my work, also means prophet in Hebrew. The sphere that sometimes appears stems from the original form and order of the universe. I expressed the spirit inside the form, not the form itself, in the form of nabi, the butterfly.
Previously featured on archatlas: The Tree of Life Jeong Lok Lee
Images and text via Jeong Lok Lee
This photograph of the second-story landing of the floating staircase in the now-demolished Clocktower building at Worcester State Hospital was over 6 years in the making. I first attempted to capture it in 2006; I got my film back and was unimpressed with the results. I tried other times over the years. I’d get my film back, and be unimpressed. Finally, in 2012, right before they demolished the asylum, I made a final trip and made a 10-minute exposure right during sunrise - and it came out perfectly.
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