Tad Wagner

My first fascinations with photography started while looking at the poster insert inside the Beatles White Album. There was a hazy, stark nostalgia saturating the images –snippets of the mysterious Beatles back stage, snapshots of familiar icons all loosely and unexpectedly tied together with casual sketches. There was something unsettling but also inspiring about these pictures. They were poetically still, contrasting exuberant lives.
I like stillness in photos when it implies a deeper motion. I like when images are frozen in such a way that they ring with motion in a sort of “eye of the hurricane” experience. I especially like photos when they hold a touch of nostalgia. I think it’s because it implies not only the motion at hand, but also time and movement on a much grander scale.
Photography for me is about capturing brief moments of rest, connection and awareness that are permanently attached to their surrounding motion.