"Perhaps when push comes to shove, one is compelled to fall down. Within reason of course. Just like when there is a picture to be taken, one takes it. This is my logic.
My photos are products of a compulsion, a gravitation toward an image. Without the camera, of course, the same pull dares itself into memory; but with the camera, all duels collide in textural sonance--everlasting, ever sprouting, ever remembered.
One doesn't need to recall the face one makes, or the angle of cracking bricks. One needs to recall the prominence of a mood. Without mood, all images are shells, hollow bones on cold ground. The purpose of my photographs is to express a precise mood born of a moment, barely there in time, always gone with the flash. And when
the camera is cased, the hope that one can feel something, because of an image, compels us onward."
Heidi Harris was born in NH. At the age of 19 she moved to New York and went to Wagner college to major in Art. After two years, college proved to be the wrong place for her passions. She enrolled in the Institute of Audio Research in Manhattan. At the Institute she studied all aspects of the music business and recording techniques. On her breaks, she took photos of this and that and then. She is currently employed at a post-production studio called Color (www.color-ny.com). Samples of the music she's composed and produced can be found at www.myspace.com/HeidiHarris.
