From this compelling interview: SUN Celebrates: Tajette O'Halloran
What is it that you personally get out of photography?
Gosh, so much. Such a simple question feels so complex. Photography has become an enormous part of my identity. In all its beauty, heaviness, intricacy, freedom, abstractness, realness and romance.
Photography is constantly revealing who we all are in this big mad world.
Creating images is a way for me to enrich, understand and create my own existence and it feels so personal and ingrained in who I am. Even though there are about a gazillion photographers out there, it still feels like my own little thing that I carry around with me constantly soothing those nostalgic yearnings. Photography is inexhaustible which is such a freeing feeling and I'm constantly checking in with myself to make sure I'm not putting nonexistent limitations on myself and my work.