Chloe Pazant
SOULDEGA: What inspired you to practice photography?
CHLOE: I’ve been a storyteller since I was a child, and that ambition has taken on various evolutions over the years into my adulthood, first manifesting through writing (I worked in news and journalism for a few years) and now in images. I’ve always been an emotional and expressive creature. Photography is an outlet for me to express what can’t always be captured in a word. I see what I feel. You feel what I see. This is how we love each other.
SOULDEGA: What topics within photography piques your interest and why?
CHLOE: I love portraits first and foremost. Photography is an exchange, even if your subject is inanimate. So, with portraiture, I have the opportunity to collaboratively create, to play with the ebb and flow of circumstance, setting and personality. To take a photograph of someone is to freeze a moment in time with them and participate in their vulnerability and mutability.
SOULDEGA: what has been the most challenging aspect for you, both in your practice and as a creative?
CHLOE: In practice, I find that challenges can arise within organizing the ideas, plans and information I gather around a certain project that I might have on the brain. If I don’t give myself the time and space to hone in on a concept, then it starts feeling kind of trite and I’m more likely to abandon it and move on. But to be honest, I’ve come more into the belief that if an idea or a photo doesn’t feel right, then I don’t give myself to it.
SOULDEGA: What motivates you?
CHLOE: I feel compelled to chase what feels sacred to me. To not would feel unnatural. I’m motivated, too, by a sense of purpose and by one of my grandfather’s famous proverbs, that life is meant to be enjoyed. I enjoy photography. It calls to me. I answer.
SOULDEGA: If there is another creative either living or dead that you would like to collaborate with, who would it be?
CHLOE: I want to collaborate with people who share or are inspired by my vision (or vice-versa). I want to collaborate with people who feel motivated by shared ideologies and aesthetic as well as the potentiality and beauty in creating works based on a common goal.
SOULDEGA: What is a goal you have for yourself?
CHLOE: I want to create. I want to harness that creativity and cultivate a world within a world. I want to show the world to as many people — fellow creatives as well as those who simply appreciate the creation — as I can. I want to continue doing what feels sacred. What feels right. To keep answering the call for as long as it calls to me.
Interested in working with this artist,Or wish to connect with her? email her at jpegchloe@gmail.com
