Conversations with Page Hall

Today we’d like to introduce you to Page Hall.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I really started exploring photography in high school with friends. A few of us learned to use a camera together and then we continued on in art school together during college. I split my college between a few years at Savannah College of Art and Design and then graduated from Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA. Post-graduation, I started learning wedding photography by working with several other photographers and continued to work on personal projects, usually with film, in my free time. I’ve loved getting to learn from my peers and connect with other photographers.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It’s not always been an easy path. It took me a few years to build my part-time business and invest in the equipment I really needed. And there have been lulls where I haven’t felt inspired to create work just for me. It’s a continuous ebb and flow between balancing what’s personally interesting and the work I need to do to survive. When I’m not feeling particularly inspired, I like to go out and shoot anyway as sort of an exercise in trying to bring back curiosity. It also helps to find artists that bring inspiration through Instagram and visiting museums and galleries.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I recently re-visited an old project taking partially underwater pictures, mostly of the ocean, that I’m really enjoying right now. It’s a really unpredictable process where I can get more literal results or more abstract because I have so little control over the subject. Sharon Harper has a series of photographs called Moon Studies and Star Scratches that are more abstract views of the sky, usually at night. There’s a lot of movement with light and clouds and some objects in the sky are more clear than others. I aspire to do sort of an ocean perspective of that type of work. I really enjoy how the water and reflections can create abstract movement that still feels familiar. It’s also really enjoyable to explore this situation where I have no control over output beyond what I can do with my camera.

How do you define success?
I think success is maintaining your sense of self and creating work unique to your perspective that you’re proud of.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: https://pagehallphoto.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pagehallphoto/

Image Credits:
Page Hall