Mark Appling Fisher
Garage Window - Leslie, Missouri
Photo from his book, Turn Left at the Blinking Light
www.markapplingfisher.com/#/turnleft/

This week's photographer is Mark Appling Fisher, who came to speak to SCC's Digital II class about his adventures in self publishing a book of photographs. He spent many hours on the road in Missouri and Illinois photographing small towns. Because his photos rarely have people in them, some may think his work is lonely or melancholy. His photography shows what happens in small towns. No one is there and business is dying. This particular photograph really spoke to me since it feels like the type of photo I try to take while I'm out. It tells a decades long story through the paint peeling, various colored boards in the windows and the weeds growing into the window frame.

A tag line on his website says it all "Common Subjects Uncommonly Photographed".  That tells me there is a world of images out there to be made and to never feel like every image has already been made. There's always another viewpoint, and another way of seeing things.