The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions.
Today’s featured artist: Lars Schneider
So, the Happy Campers project … It really is a very personal project as I started it purely for fun, for documentation purposes and a to get a look into the world of other campers and their vehicles and ideas and thoughts about camping and a life on the road. It was in 2012 that I spent two months living and traveling out of a 1971 VW van with my wife Katrin and our just 8 months old son in the US Southwest (they are included in the series too ;-)) and whenever we pulled up to a campground, we looked around for interesting vehicles and people. In the evenings or mornings, I grabbed my Hasselblad H4D-50, and we took a casual walk as a family around the campsite. With our old van in the back and a baby on the arm it never was hard to start a conversation, and, in the end, I often took a few portraits of the owners and their rides. I naturally felt most drawn to other vintage motorhomes and the supersize ones that were just the opposite of how we were travelling.
To see more of this project, click here
APE contributor Suzanne Sease currently works as a consultant for photographers and illustrators around the world. She has been involved in the photography and illustration advertising and in-house corporate industry for decades. After establishing the art-buying department at The Martin Agency, then working for Kaplan-Thaler, Capital One, Best Buy and numerous smaller agencies and companies, she decided to be a consultant in 1999. Follow her at @SuzanneSease. Instagram
