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Cory Bordonaro
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Cory is the editor of skirt! magazine in Birmingham. A University of Georgia grad, she moved west to Alabama in pursuit of her journalistic ambitions. Cory had aspirations of working in magazines from a young age. Her first title, Cory's Story, printed on college-rule (using Crayola), was published...
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Wednesday, August, 20, 2008

 

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I took this picture over the weekend in small-town Tennessee. I’m an amateur photographer, with an uncanny obsession for pastoral scenery. My choice camera  an old Minolta that belonged to my father in the 1970s. Loaded with lens and flash, it nearly weighs as much as I do. For every promising photograph I take, I end up with nine trash-worthy ones. But, when it’s right, there is something so beautiful to me about being able to have a tangible expression of my perspective; to be able to hand someone an honest view of the world as I see it. It’s like a personal invitation to come behind the lens of my eyes and appreciate the simple decay of a roadside barn in the way that I do.

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getaclewis
getaclewis
Cory, you should bring your
Posted Wed, 08/20/2008 - 10:58
Cory, you should bring your lens and come stomp around northeast Alabama with me! We see with the same eye. (I'm so mesmerized by the weathered, rustic images I've shot through the years that my husband and I are now building a cabin out of wood reclaimed from 100-year-old barns!) I have a 75-year-old Hasselblad and sorely miss film and heavy cameras. There is little to compare with the stunning sorcery of watching an image emerge in the darkroom from a vat of lifeless chemicals! "Trust Life's unfolding..."