Here's a photograph from a couple of years ago of J.P. Harris and Dom Flemons in costume and on set for an Old Crow Medicine Show music video. My sweet friend JP wrote this a few days ago however and it really moved me, so I thought I'd reshare it on here. We really all are in this together. Lots of love to all of you movers and shakers out there! . . . "Photos, like music, are becoming a cheap commodity to most. The digital age has made it easier to get "seen," harder to get "noticed." • I am a carpenter first and foremost, for over half my life now. I make with my hands, I sweat and bleed and cuss and revel in that work everyday that I'm not out being a "professional musician." I've learned that hard, honest work rarely gets acknowledged as much as those with an angle, a "conventionally" beautiful face, or a marketing degree. And that's just fine. It is the way of the world we now live (virtually) in and there's no use bitching too much about it. • Photographers, particularly the ones involved in the art/fashion/music realm, have been capturing the human condition, our experience on earth, for getting on 200 years. They struggle as hard as those they shoot, with little or none of the vain glamour I indulge myself here on the internet. The old ways, not dissimilar to folk music, are being dozed-over in lieu of cheap filters, photoshop, and phone cameras. • Next time you go to your local record store to buy some independent music, consider swinging by your local gallery and buying a $50 print. Like all the unseen heroes of the art and music industries, photographers need recognition in a world of increasingly disposable aesthetic."
