It’s funny how inspiration takes form… People, places, sounds, and in this case, a youtube video I stumbled across.
Check out this awesome story. It inspired me to go out and shoot medium format film, of people and places, and stick the undeveloped rolls of film in a shoebox under my bed for a few years until I can afford to get them developed… 🙂
But seriously, this is a great story. Click the image above to jump to the link.
“Vivian Maier was a nanny and a street photographer from the 1950s – 1990s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes over 100,000 mostly medium format negatives (90% of her work), thousands of prints, and countless undeveloped rolls of film.”
Michael Winter 
When I first heard of her story I was incredibly moved. She shot for the art of it, for the passion, even without recognition, even without developing 90% of her work – it’s incredible! We lead these quiet lives and so many people may have seen her as ‘just a nanny’ but she had this other life as a photographer. I am a nanny with this other life too – and it’s interesting to witness how you are perceived as one role to many people when in fact we all play different roles in life and we see ourselves differently from the way the rest of the world sees us.
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