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RaMell Ross

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369 total appearances

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Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Because in the cities, especially because stuff is always refreshed and they're always doing renovations and there's so much money and so much people and it's so dense, you're always engaging with people.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

things and it's just way faster but in the south there's just these huge fields and then you have this church that was built in 1800 that's what you mean by the icons yeah then you have this huge field and then you have this weeping willow tree and so you're just like out in the middle of this expanse essentially a desert for metaphorical reasons and then you come to this thing that holds this meaning culturally and so like what a meaning making space that's why like time feels different there

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

things and it's just way faster but in the south there's just these huge fields and then you have this church that was built in 1800 that's what you mean by the icons yeah then you have this huge field and then you have this weeping willow tree and so you're just like out in the middle of this expanse essentially a desert for metaphorical reasons and then you come to this thing that holds this meaning culturally and so like what a meaning making space that's why like time feels different there

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

things and it's just way faster but in the south there's just these huge fields and then you have this church that was built in 1800 that's what you mean by the icons yeah then you have this huge field and then you have this weeping willow tree and so you're just like out in the middle of this expanse essentially a desert for metaphorical reasons and then you come to this thing that holds this meaning culturally and so like what a meaning making space that's why like time feels different there

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And it makes you question what time is, which is on everyone's mind, maybe has always been on everyone's mind, but there in which the architecture doesn't change. Then what else does not change?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And it makes you question what time is, which is on everyone's mind, maybe has always been on everyone's mind, but there in which the architecture doesn't change. Then what else does not change?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And it makes you question what time is, which is on everyone's mind, maybe has always been on everyone's mind, but there in which the architecture doesn't change. Then what else does not change?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I think I went there and I'm like, I can photograph, I can get better. And I made photographs for quite literally three years. Non-stop, every day, spending all my money, large format photography, like rapacious image making of my students, of the landscape. Was your camera basically like your appendage? Oh, for sure.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I think I went there and I'm like, I can photograph, I can get better. And I made photographs for quite literally three years. Non-stop, every day, spending all my money, large format photography, like rapacious image making of my students, of the landscape. Was your camera basically like your appendage? Oh, for sure.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Well, I think I went there and I'm like, I can photograph, I can get better. And I made photographs for quite literally three years. Non-stop, every day, spending all my money, large format photography, like rapacious image making of my students, of the landscape. Was your camera basically like your appendage? Oh, for sure.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I had it in my hand almost all times, you know, when I was shooting with the DSLR. Otherwise, it was right in my backpack. I'm like always thinking photographically and looking cinemagraphically. And every image I made looked like someone else's image. For three years. No joke. And I don't show these images unless they're in some sort of artist talk, which I'm trying to talk about my process.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I had it in my hand almost all times, you know, when I was shooting with the DSLR. Otherwise, it was right in my backpack. I'm like always thinking photographically and looking cinemagraphically. And every image I made looked like someone else's image. For three years. No joke. And I don't show these images unless they're in some sort of artist talk, which I'm trying to talk about my process.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

I had it in my hand almost all times, you know, when I was shooting with the DSLR. Otherwise, it was right in my backpack. I'm like always thinking photographically and looking cinemagraphically. And every image I made looked like someone else's image. For three years. No joke. And I don't show these images unless they're in some sort of artist talk, which I'm trying to talk about my process.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that's when I realized that my imagination was curated. Because I'm trying so hard. And the images, I think the images were beautiful. And I know they were. People would tell me. But why do they feel like someone else's?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that's when I realized that my imagination was curated. Because I'm trying so hard. And the images, I think the images were beautiful. And I know they were. People would tell me. But why do they feel like someone else's?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And that's when I realized that my imagination was curated. Because I'm trying so hard. And the images, I think the images were beautiful. And I know they were. People would tell me. But why do they feel like someone else's?

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, because while this time I'm making images, I'm teaching in the community. I'm working at an organization called Youth Build. And I'm also coaching at the high school basketball team. Coincidentally, I played basketball at Georgetown one year overseas. I was like the best basketball player in the area. And so that gives you just mad respect because people respected me fundamentally.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, because while this time I'm making images, I'm teaching in the community. I'm working at an organization called Youth Build. And I'm also coaching at the high school basketball team. Coincidentally, I played basketball at Georgetown one year overseas. I was like the best basketball player in the area. And so that gives you just mad respect because people respected me fundamentally.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

Yeah, because while this time I'm making images, I'm teaching in the community. I'm working at an organization called Youth Build. And I'm also coaching at the high school basketball team. Coincidentally, I played basketball at Georgetown one year overseas. I was like the best basketball player in the area. And so that gives you just mad respect because people respected me fundamentally.

Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'

And then I'm working at this program that's helping. kids who are 16 to 24 who are dropped out either get back into school or get some workforce training. And I think when I moved to Hale County in the local school system, public school system, I think they had 70 seniors and I think 30 graduated.