summer scent

Growing up, my mother would mail photographs to all of my relatives from disposable cameras and that was my first encounter with images. Memory and photographs have always played off one another since I can remember. Every page of Summer Scent previews snapshots from my brain and connects them with experiences from the last 7 months of life. All of the images are photographed on Fujifilm 35mm disposable cameras and candidly captured.

-Reed

"Summer Scent is a project that explores photography's promise to arrest a fleeting moment. Using dozens of disposable film cameras to capture moments with friends and family, Schick accepts the limitations of the simple, cheap cardboard camera. The resulting images - usually grainy, often lit by abrupt flash or smeared with moving bodies - take on a new life as both light and paper. The images become monumental: makers of the unheroic moments that comprise most of our lives".

-Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

“Reed Schick captured the attention of viewers with a full bodied experience- his disposable camera photographs, taken over the last 7 months of his life, were projected on a reel. If desired, the viewer could pick up a pair of headphones that played sounds of nature, soft beats, and light guitar strumming. Additionally, a book of the photographs sat beside the headphones, so that they could be appreciated for a longer amount of time. “Summer Scent,” the name of his piece and the book, will be available for purchase this month”.

-Claire Piquette in The Bagpipe