Tatum Shaw is a photographer and advertising copywriter based in Portland, Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia. His photography has appeared in Oxford American, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nylon Guys, American Chordata, and Atlanta Magazine.
About ‘New Songs ‘:
New Songs is a collection of photos taken between 2012 and 2017. It started as simply a collection of some recent photos, but as I began editing in August of 2016, just prior to the US elections, I stumbled upon a sequence that matched this feeling of dread that seemed to be hanging in the air.
It reminded me of the line in No Country For Old Men, “You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you.” In the subsequent months, the project continued with this line as the dangling carrot, exploring my fascination with an impending fortuity using both reverence and humor.
