I began working on a photo a day project back in 2021. I carry a camera everywhere I go and I finally turned it into something that shows the process of my journey.

Over a conversation with a friend recently I realized that this project had a feeling for me. A relationship that is so special that sometimes it can just exist and there are no words. You know that feeling of being alone together with someone in a room and you want it to last forever and your not even doing anything.

That is what photography is do me and this project is my intention of showing you that feeling. I want the viewer to take it in and have that feeling, whatever it is for them, I want them to take away from the image a certain remnant of that.

I spent a lot of time alone, most creatives do, in crowds and overwhelming situations I suffer an overload and often act out as a result. Being alone is calming for me and when I find that person who can be alone with me in a room and that is all we are doing I have found inner peace. I have found the moment I have been looking for all of my life. Acceptance.

This project is also a nod to the passion I have for photography and how it has carried me through. It has given me so much, more than I could have ever hoped for or expected. I have become the person I am today because I have seen the world through a lens and I am so very proud of the connection I have to my craft.

Deanna Flinn

Portrait and editorial photographer and mural maker living in Vancouver, BC, and travelling worldwide.

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