AZHA AYANNA LUCKMAN: WIDE EDIT

I’ve been asked why I make images. I don’t necessarily have a why — grief could be an answer, but at this point, I don’t know. It’s more of a feeling that I can’t stop and don’t want to stop. Unlike other mediums I partake in, photo allows me to hold onto memories, scents, and the exact song that was playing in the background. I can see an image and remember that there was a wind chill that day. My creative practice is a means of escaping whilst also preserving and archiving my existence on this rock. It takes a certain kind of person and a particular type of lived experience to relate to image-making the way I do, and though it hasn’t always been easy I feel blessed.

Wide Edit has been a practice in which I task artists with sharing a little piece of themselves through imagery spanning across time. Now I find myself struggling to do the same, so I figured being real would be best. It feels kind of full circle that whatever we do, however, we do it, we must make these images for ourselves and only then we might feel like we can share them. That being said, I leave you with a collection of images and memories.

Much love to all Wide Edit contributors: Bernice Mulenga, Andrea Nieto, D’Andre Williams, Ramshah Kanwal, Devlin Claro, Vivian Buenrosto, Vivian Fu, Kristin Rowe