New Year - new resolutions : Here is to the 365 days of 2022

Happy New Year!

As always, the New Year begins with plenty of projects and good intentions. One of them is to start a 365 project, making an image per day for the whole year to come. Let’s see how it goes, here is my first week.

1 - 7 January was a mixture of beautiful, light enchanted days and grim, gloomy ones when I would not even go out. With the Omicron cases skyrocketing, I worked the whole week remote from home. When it was not raining, I would take a break after lunch and go for a quick photowalk before returning to my virtual office again. In the evenings I would get lost in the excellent biography “Vivian Maier Developed” by Ann Marks.

In addition to the 365, my head is spinning with other project ideas : 52 weeks (an image per week) using only Lenbabies, 12 self portraits (yes, once a month), a double exposure project and a diptych one. In 2021 I lost my love for photography, and I want to conquer it back now. I have not stopped seeing the images in my head and in front of my eyes, but I have stopped making them. Here’s to a year full of images and moments captured!

Merja Varkemaa