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July 22, 2005
Finding Characters in New York City
self-portrait 1986©Kat Caverly
In attempts to liberate herself from her work as an assignment photographer & begin to see the better side of humanity than she was witnessing as a bartender, Kat Caverly took to the streets.
Prepared by her lessons in behavioral psychology, armed with releases & her camera, Kat began to flaunt the silly side of people.
“My work as a street photographer was an exploration into humor good nature. Asking adults to play on the street with a perfect stranger (or was it perfectly strange?) taught me a lot about human behavior. I learned quickly that I really didn't need the camera.”
Now that Kat was able to play with her subjects, and make photographs that exposed more than physical features or a list of pre-described attributes, she happily took her film home to see what would develop.
It is here that The Photocartoonist was born: using her knowledge of people and photography to show the characters that are sitting inside human beings.
But what of the characters that lay inside The Photocartoonist?
Posted by photocartoonist at July 22, 2005 11:15 PM