Olivia Motley

Photography – New Orleans

I\'m a bit all over the place. I\'ve pursued a life in filmmaking since I was 14, but I\'m curious about everything and I hope to keep learning new things forever. I love painting and drawing and making things with my hands. I\'m really nostalgic and try to capture that sense of wonder and imagination that flows around us everyday but gets drowned out by the mundane. I like to try to tell stories. Lately, I\'ve been doing that through photographs. I use alternative cameras and develop them myself in experimental ways while playing around with the chemistry. It\'s all an experiment. I find a lot of excitement and intrigue in not knowing exactly what\'s going to come out in the end. And I love that whatever it is, it really existed-right there before my eyes, half-memory, half tinkered-with, and I\'ve got it in a time capsule forever.