JillPollock

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Photography ? or arts in general ? yes I'm in this world in since all small. My father was an artist and everything comes from him. I did my studies,taking courses in the history of art, costume and fashion, always a camera with me, taking pictures of landscapes or other, trying to put in the shot my feelings felt at the moment, or transpose a certain mood coming from my imagination when I'm touched by a scene.

life was going on, I finished my studies, done my traineeships, worked in sales, until personal illness brought a sudden change in myself, and led me get closer to this photographic universe. I cannot explain how this happened, but a new and deep need was born. I realised I had never truly looked the world until it was through a lens. Life was different, more beautiful, more sad, exaggerated and extreme in every sense of the word. It was like I could see the soul of every thing or living being.

A few years ago, unfortunately my father was diagnosed with cancer, and my world fell apart. Photography then became a loophole, my only escape in which I took refuge when I could no longer talk about how I felt. I got lost in tests, shooting everything and anything without questioning myself, just focusing on things who reflected my own sadness and loss.

He died in September 2011, and I haven't been able to see him before he left. It is at this moment there just after, during my trip to Scotland in the native land of my father and my roots, during this period rather complicated and painful of my life, that I had a real
brainwave for photography. It has then engulfed me, becoming a passion in which I could not stop.
It became an absolute universe that has blocked the real world, a place where I could return to my memories of him, far away from this reality of disease, and the loss of a parent.

Today, I'm still searching for myself, trying to find my personal touch and universe. I'm getting more and more interested in the technicality of the subject, as for it will permit me to faithfully transpose my feelings, my personal vision of the world surrounding me, and the dreamy way I can see a detail, a smile, a tree, a pain. "

"If I can make one good photograph a day, that keeps me going. And if I cannot manage one, well, at least I have had the huge privilege of being in the mountains." J Cornish