guest post: amelia's world

Good morning Simple Blueprint readers! This is Lexi from Love.Obsess.Inspire. I hope you all had an amazing weekend and are ready for the inspiring week ahead!! 

Now I have to tell you... Joanna has set up an "A-team" of guest bloggers during her much deserved vacation, so being the first to kick-off this special week is very intimidating. I have search high and low to find the perfect post and the end result... Amelia's World: Animal Affinity by Robin Schwatz!  

 

 

 

I first came across Robin's photographic works via "O" magazine's Instant Inspiration section. And boy was I inspired!! 

Words from the artist:

"My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. 

Animals and interspecies relationships have always been an important part of my work. The animals in my photographs are not represented as beasts or nobility but as part of our everyday world. My first monograph, a series of primates at home with humans, guided me to the places of my own childhood fantasies.  

I photograph myself with animals through Amelia. I am an only child who has an only child. Each of us has a strong fantasy world. Amelia and I play out our eccentricities in worlds where she and animals not only co-exist, but also interact. Animals are not props in my photographs and they are not photo-shopped in. The world that my daughter and I explore is one where the line between human and animal overlaps or is blurred."

-- Robin Schwartz

Comments

[californiablue]

Really beautiful work; the interaction between the child and the animals seems so natural and effortless.

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[ANNA M.]

IVe seen her work around New York. she is such a great story teller. Great post, Lexi
Love that last image

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[joanna of simple blueprint]

hi lexi! thank you so much for helping me out when I was on vacation. what a great post you shared to start the guest posts off. you are the best! xx - joanna

p.s. i will make sure to get my thursday post up this week!