David Peniston: artist statement

     Growing up with bum ankles and not being able to play sports or do other "normal" kid stuff, I was driven to express myself in creative ways early in life. I have always loved building things and working with my hands, and there was a time when I considered myself good at drawing, but I have since focused my creative energy on music and photography.

    I mainly shoot black and white film with a myriad of lo-fi cameras.  The unpredictability of the lo-fi cameras is very important to me. The camera only captures what it wants to capture; when I click the shutter the resulting image is a compromise between what I want out of the picture and what the camera wants to capture. I try to create interesting abstract images (often multiple exposure) that make the viewer wonder what they are really looking at.    I like to think of my work as photographic remixing, taking bits and pieces of images and splicing them together all on one frame.