LightBox Files 2017

Roger Dorband

I tend to be a project oriented photographer.  But like most of our clan I carry a camera even when not working on a project.  When traveling for instance I feel free to simply photograph whatever catches my eye and holds my interest; a friend fishing in a lake in the Cascades, loved ones out for a walk in a frozen German landscape, a young girl ducking out of the wind on the Bainbridge Island ferry. The photographs in the LightBox Drawer exhibition are drawn from that disparate group of travel photographs which I refer to as my "On the Road " series.  Most of these images involve people in situations that to me suggest a larger narrative.  Of course I was there so I have a better sense of how the story unfolds.  For the viewer they are more ambiguous, like stills from a movie they haven't yet seen.