Brian Goodman: People Places Things

After finishing his first book Manzanar: Their Footsteps Remain in 2020, Brian Goodman decided to follow it up with a retrospective collection of his black-and-white photography which he entitled - People Places Things – A Photographic Journey.

The images in People Places Things were captured using a wide variety of tools: 10 different film cameras, 9 different film types, 8 different digital cameras, multiple generations of iPhones, and a wide range of darkroom equipment, computer systems, software, scanners, printers, and other related items.

Brian believes this collection represents a wide-ranging cross-section of his artistic expression in black and white over the past 50 years, showing how his photographic interests have constantly expanded and shifted. He doesn’t hold himself to one particular style, method, or medium; instead, he lets his eye take in whatever and wherever he finds himself, resulting in a widely varied portfolio of imagery. At some point in the future, Brian would like to revisit this project and add more work from his past, leaving space, too, for future work he has not yet imagined.

Now here’s an interesting, mind-boggling piece of information: If you add up all the exposure times it took to capture these images, the 50 years of his life represented in this collection amount to less than 4 seconds! 

Photography is an amazing thing.