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Photo by: Charles Bergquist

Experimentation is a generative exercise for Charles Bergquist. As part of a daily routine, the freelance director, photographer, and designer keeps late hours in his California studio tinkering with different ways to layer or process photos and video. Like most creative people, he found himself with an increasingly large folder of partially-completed work.

The Everyday Project is his way of spending more time with these not-quite-there experiments. By turning a scattered collection into an ongoing project, he created soft-pressure to motivate himself to more experimentation.

The project is essentially a series of non sequiturs. The images and videos aren't intended to be a thematically linked series, but instead a collection of one-offs born from the actual process of sitting down to figure things out. It's a bit like a look directly into Bergquist's notebook.

Selected prints from the series are available now from the Ghostly Store.