attention to plight of Detroit . So one of the things I did my first week there was to drive into Detroit with my camera . The forms and textures were perfect . I loved the abstract pictures I got but some of the people I showed them too were offended . They were of course , white people who lived in the clean well-kept suburbs of Detroit . What for me was art was for them an embarrassment . I think I was tapping into some kind of Caucasian guilt complex which prevented them from appreciating the abstract beauty of the images .
JM : You mentioned some great jazz musicians as inspirations for you . Do you use the same sort of improvisation in your photography ?
CHC : I go into a zone or trance when I ' m shooting . I think it ' s similar to what musicians go into when they are improvising . I used to do it when I improvised when playing music . That ' s why I rarely use a tripod . I went out on a photo shoot with some people from an online meet-up group in Denver Co . Most of the other photographers were setting up tripods and taking so long to set up their shots , trying to get it perfect . I handheld my camera shooting several shots while in my zone . I find that trying to reach technical perfection gets in the way of artist expression . When everyone posted their pictures online to share , I had far more presentable pics than anyone because I had a greater number and variety of pictures to choose from .