Josh Wells is a commercial and fine art photographer with an interest in community, providence, and third places. He facilitated Love Letter to Inglewood as part of a two-part project celebrating Inglewood on Beaufort’s ten-year anniversary. The first part of the project is a video intended to function as a time capsule of Inglewood in 2024 as well as a celebration of the work achieved so far. Leveraging connections built as Inglewood on Beaufort’s marketing manager from 2020-2024, as well as input from Inglewood on Beaufort committee and chairpersons from throughout their ten-year history, the video celebrates Inglewood's past, present, and future.
The Love Letter to Inglewood exhibition at the Inglewood Arts Hub both hosts the video project and expands upon it with original works by local artists Kelly Ha and Louise Wells, each of which reacts to Inglewood’s unique place and history. Josh’s contribution to this exhibition is thirteen photographs taken using cameras from the 1950s and 1960s, on film which was hand-developed and printed on an etching rag. The combination of new and old from modern film and workflows utilizing old technology speaks to Inglewood’s unique blend of heritage and progress. These photographs are exhibited in a collage among Kelly Ha’s gouache paintings to create a sense of Inglewood that is both fast and slow, new and old, past and future.
Connect with Josh:
Website: joshwellsphotography.com/
Instagram: @joshwellsphotography
