Monica Fowlkes - Weekly Artist Post 3

Photographer Hal

Bathtubs, couples, love and challenge are strong themes throughout these Photographer Hal’s artwork pieces with other key elements including individuality, style, communication and intimacy. Photographer Hal brings complete strangers to his confined, crucible like spaces only to convey his continuing theme of “love of the couple”. The initial title Pinky & Killer used a small space or room to capture the willing couples, soon followed by the title Couple Jam that brought the focus even closer to the subjects who were placed in a bathtub together. Photographer Hal’s latest project is called Fresh Love, which captures the many varied and fresh couples in vacuum-sealed package.

 In the closeness between the couples in some of the pictures I can tell he wanted to capture love as it really is and the bathtub is an ideal place to the vivid reality in my images. Through the medium of photography, the couple has become Photographer Hal’s chosen subject to express the principle theme of world love; this will of course require a search to find subjects who are willing to participate. As a couple he has photographed a wide variety of variables which include being young and old, from the same or opposite sex, of different race, having different styles, girls from the north and men from the south and many others who have been willing to participate.

I really enjoy the photographs because I thought that the fact that there were people squeezed into theses little tubs and that some of them were in outrageous costumes really draw your attention to it.  It really opens up my creative mind about taking ordinary objects and making them unique.