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Chasing Darkness and Beauty in Everyday Life with @meghan_faulk

For more haunting, food-inspired photography from a young artist, follow @meghan_faulk on Instagram.

“#Hellomynameis Meghan Faulkner (@meghan_faulk), and I’m a 17-year-old aspiring writer and photographer based out of Chicago, Illinois. I think the most recurring theme in my feed would be the undeniable use of darkness in my photography. I don’t hold onto that immaculate white light that everyone seems to be aesthetically drawn toward these days. It’s from the shadow that I’m most compelled to create. It’s from there that everything else emerges.“

I’m largely inspired by the notion of everyday life and beauty where it naturally exists. I believe that every moment of our lives is worth witnessing, however imperfect. Because every moment is beautiful, even when it’s not. I’m inspired by the simple act of being, and the poetry that plays out when we allow ourselves to just be – to be still, to be present, to make a sanctuary out of the here and now.

As a photographer, I’ve made it my work to curate moments, but I’m not interested in a curated life. Social media has made it easy to pick and choose the pieces of our life that seem most fitting to this idea of ‘perfection,’ despite the fact that we all know perfection is something of a fantasy. We are not perfect. We are flawed beings. We have backs that break and hearts that beat and lungs that breathe. We have salt and spines and skin, and we are sometimes so human that it hurts. But we’re here. And that, in itself, is beautiful.”

by via Instagram Blog