Get out of your way and focus on making. I think we all hold ourselves back so much, myself included, and if you can just make it a routine to work on your craft more than anything else, I think you'll be ahead of basically everyone else and will learn to love the process even more.
1. Tell us about your background and journey.
I have no substantial academic background in art, I just picked up a camera when I was a teenager and slowly went from the guy who brought his camera everywhere and took photos to document everything to using it more sparingly to create ideas I would draw out.
I was always interested in art in one form or another as a child, writing, drawing, playing music, etc, but photography is what I put the most effort into and took most seriously. In 2014-2015 I began taking conceptual photographs more seriously and regularly and this led to the kind of conceptual imagery that I make now to this day, years later.
2. What inspired you to pursue photography and how would you describe your photography style?
It just felt like the best thing to do with my life and what I thought could possibly "work" if I tried hard enough. I didn't want to work a 9-5 for the rest of my life and work for someone else, leaving me with barely any time to create and work on creative personal projects; that terrified me.
My work is often dark, morose, but I like to try and make it as refined and tasteful as possible at the same time. Minimal, broody, and concept-oriented is how I would describe my style, however, I am still open to exploring other avenues with photography such as street photography and less "set up" photography.
3. What impact do you want to create through your work?
I would like to instill the feeling of awe in others that I feel when I experience, see a beautiful piece of art. That feeling is so powerful and if I can make others feel that way, as many others make me feel, I think that's a huge accomplishment.
Down the line, I would like to do more work using art to actually benefit the material conditions of people's lives, but for the moment I'm just trying to instill the best practices, habits that I can for my own work ethic to get creating consistently again and be in the proper headspace to do so.
4. When and how did you develop an interest in songwriting?
My parents have played in bands throughout my life and I was always surrounded by music and live music as a child so it was something I had an lt of exposure to, probably much more than the average person.
Instruments were always out in the open at my home (drums from a previous jam session that someone had left, my father's guitars, etc) so I just tried playing them here and there and found out that I really loved playing and writing music, but the writing aspect is what I enjoy most, I'm not the greatest player ever and prefer to explore writing more than becoming an amazing player.
5. What are your future goals?
Being financially independent through my art, music alone, collaborating with artists that I love, releasing a book, doing more exhibitions once the world opens up, learning 3D, and much more.
6. What tips and advice would you give to aspiring photographers and artists?
Get out of your way and focus on making. I think we all hold ourselves back so much, myself included, and if you can just make it a routine to work on your craft more than anything else, I think you'll be ahead of basically everyone else and will learn to love the process even more.
7. Who do you admire the most and why?
Nicolas Alan Cope is probably my favorite artist, and I admire his work very much; he seems to be a master of multiple styles yet his work is incredibly cohesive through them all, a huge fan!
Sean Mundy (born in 1991, Montréal, Canada) creates conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation. Working through self-doubt and questions of identity, Sean constructs scenes of palpable tension and uncertainty.
With a subtle, minimal approach he aims to disrupt classical narrative formula to form scenarios that are reliant on subjective associations. He combines visual vocabulary from iconography, symbolism, and the surreal to probe at themes of division and conflict in varied ways with his meticulously constructed and digitally manipulated images.
Interviewed By - Serene Ingle
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