In sickness and in health

Having a 6 day working week over the past 7 months has seen my time divided between contemporary photography magazine SOURCE and Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery. Grateful as I am in being gainfully employed, and especially so being cushioned in the photography industry, my marketing career has invariably led to my own photography practice taking a back seat.

Until of course this week, where a seemingly innocent ear infection has forced me to slam the brakes on work life to take time to recover. This stillness has actually afforded me something invaluable – headspace to think about my own work.  Initially it felt like a guilty, self indulgent pleasure, but as the days have passed the creative cogs began churning and this time not for an organisation, but for my own project.  I’ve started tweeting again and I have started the  necessary preparations required for a new project – which I guess you could say I’ve embarked on as of this week!

So I am strangely grateful for the ear infection and penicillin in tow, as I am reminded of my pledge:  for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish ’till death do us part. I pledge to you, photography, my faithfulness….