The Creatives
PINK and peach
Trey washington
filmmaker / photographer
We sat under a dim blue light as Trey avoided all eye contact and puffed slowly on his Black & Mild. The ash gathered under the slow burn of the brown paper, hanging on with all its might as the end so desperately wished to follow the rules of gravity.
Although hidden under the darkness of his room, Trey shared his hopes, dreams, and his philosophy on his his craft.
Trey's work is dark and mysterious, using techniques from the days of film that are easily mimicked by editing software today. He prefers to stick with the past, feeling as though utilizing these techniques make his videos more authentic and masterful.
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OUT OF NECESSITY.
Trey grew up in Alabama and moved to Colorado in his pre-teen years. After high school, he attended three different film schools only to drop out of them all. He was tired of reiterating all the rules he so desperately wanted to break. The dark and mysterious filmmaker gains inspiration not from school, but from his upbringing and past experiences.
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Millennials & the Internet
Trey mainly shares work on his social media accounts for short periods of time.
His thoughts on the cybersphere contain duality, which address the downfalls within his own generation, as well as those before him.
Sad. But Happy.
When planning to take his photograph, I asked Trey to choose a place in his hometown that made him feel something powerful.
He took me to a beige, dead-grass-filled field in Peyton, Colorado, lined by the trees of Black Forest and a ever-spanning suburb.
When asked what this place made him feel, he told me he was sad.
It was a place of barron hopes and thoughts, one of emptiness he would go when the spirit needed loneliness.
However, when I asked him to lay down in the grass to change up the scenery, a small grin slithered up onto the corners of his lips. He adjusted in the dry, pokey grass, sighed, and closed his eyes.
I asked how he felt now.
"Happy," he responded. "I should lay down here more often."
Oh, what a change in perspective can do.
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