Dress LaunderetteBlog

Shooting almost exclusively on Polaroid film, there is a foggy comfort to the work of photographer Dusdin Condren. Images bleed into depth and shadows, and leave a sense of age to them. There is so much beauty in the softness and wear, as though both the subject and physical image passed through great exertion to arrive in our view. Each full of a sense that there is more to a story than the brief suggestion we are given.

“I take pictures because it’s a way of saying something without having to say something literal. To say something that can be both abstract and simple. I get a bad feeling when people talk about “capturing” something with photography. That way of thinking seems lazy and false. For me it has much more to do with the impulse to pretend or to remember something creatively. Seeing something real and wanting to imagine how that real thing would be if it were a fake thing. Alienating and distancing. Putting the artifice of a lens between myself and reality. Forcing the present into the past, and so on.”