Every surface has a story. Every face, a world.
I’m in a constant state of falling in love with the world. My camera is how I show it.
My name is Felipe Salas-Ogilvie. I don’t come from an art education background. I don’t have classical training. I came to photography in the first year of our plague, because I got tired of cosplaying a veal. I needed to give myself an excuse to go outside and breathe fresh air in a time where we were all sequestered indoors. Picking up my first camera felt like finding a part of myself, the feel, the weight, the intentionality, all of it, gave that sense of “correctness” that I hadn’t really felt since childhood. Knowing that I was starting from zero, I wanted to bridge the gap between new and muscle memory as quickly as possible, so I set myself a small goal, 100 photos a day. At the end of that first year I had 75,000 photos under my belt and my camera had paid for itself.
When I’m looking at just about anything through my camera, I don’t know that I’m “looking” for anything per se. I’m not by nature a visual primary person (weird to write here, I know). I’m kinesthetic but I’m trying to capture a feeling or the idea of how something feels or smells. I’m trying to pull the viewer through the frame to experience the moment. And I feel like so many of us miss the beauty in the every day, not intentionally, but we get used to walking past it, with my work I’m trying to literally change your perspective in how you look at things, from the ground, through a hole, very close up. With just a small shift everything changes and I’d hate to miss it.
If any of that at all resonates, I’d love to work with you.
Based in Canterbury, New Hampshire, serving the greater New Hampshire and New England area. Available for product photography, portraits, and pet sessions. Scheduling is limited, reach out early.