Clockwise from top left: Audrey Leonard at Fashion Club shoot • Garrett Chesnut • Michael Wade •
Josh Weston • Scribbler retreat 2010 bonfire
that drives her artistic vision. “I always try to find the weirdest angles to look at something,” she said. Tis is what drives her to get in awkward positions to get the photo. “If you’ve ever been with me when I’m taking pictures, you might see me ly- ing on my back on the ground to get a really awesome angle, especially [of] skateboarders.” Tis idea isn’t only relevant in her art. Foster carries this vision out throughout her daily life – it changes her perspective of the world because of her art. “[Once], I saw this picture of a toilet,” she said. “You wouldn’t look at that picture and think of it as a toilet, but if you stare at it for a couple seconds, you’re like ‘Is that a toilet?’ It was a beauti- ful picture, but it was a toilet!” She saw that photo two or
three years ago, but the spark still ignites her artistic vision. “Tat’s when it kind of clicked in my head that you can make
anything look good on film,” she said. “You just need to be creative and innovative and original about it. Because every- body looks at a toilet the same way, so just look at the thing and think ‘How would somebody not look at this?’ [Take the] as- pect of this object people [have] not seen before, and try to show them that.” Foster admits that this sort of creativity isn’t for everyone. “It’s hard sometimes, but it’s gotten me places just to think about that.”
Looking forward As for the places she’ll go,
Foster has it all planned out. “I absolutely want to go to art school,” she said. “[And then] hopefully, when I die, I’ll be that famous iconic director like John Hughes, and they’ll go through all my stuff and find all these pictures I took with all these famous people.”
Until then, Foster is content
with making her start here in Decatur. “I want people to look at my work. As many people, whoever you are, I don’t care,” she said. “It sounds lame, but I love getting notifications that say ‘So-and-so made your photo their profile picture.’” Foster has come a long way
from when she first began in terms of people’s appreciation for her work.“[At first], I was just that little annoying girl that ran around with a camera in people’s faces,” she said. “But now, I think people don’t have a problem with it. They get it, and they ask me ‘when are you gonna post those pictures?’ Tat’s a good feeling.” Now that she has discovered
them, Foster has to find a way to balance her two passions. “I am definately a much bigger photographer than filmmaker,” she said. “I feel like photography is one of those things that just
stays with me.” For now, Foster has discov-
ered how each of her interests depends on the other. “I’ve been into movies longer than photography, but it took until I started taking pictures for me to realize that I want to make movies as opposed to acting in a movie,” she said. “I like portraiture better than anything else, and movies are generally about people.” To Foster, photography is
so much more than just the people she photographs or the camera she uses. Whether she uses film or photography, it’s all about stopping time. “Tere’s that moment,” she said. “And in photography there’s just one moment but with film it’s a series of moments and captur- ing those moments is what I like best.” n
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