If you have ever Googled, "The Life of Brian" you'll find stuff largely about the hilarious Monty Python movie and if you look at the blurb.com bookstore, you'll find more than one book of the same name that are books of some sort or another done by a fellow Brian or about a Brian. So for my next book, which I am calling a photographic autobiography, guess what I aiming to call it. You guessed it, The Life of Brian.
As I get older, I often think about what will happen to the 40 years and counting worth of the negatives and slides I have made from my photography, it's not like I am a well known, iconic photographer or even the Messiah, I am just some guy that thinks of himself as a photographer, so who would want to archive my photography. Maybe what I should do, is keep making photographs, and not process my film and maybe years after I am dead, in the same vain as Vivian Maier someone would find those unprocessed rolls and the rest of my negatives and slides which could create a huge interest in my photography then. It could happen, right?!
The best way I can have some sort of lasting archive of my photography is create a book, according to the Help Center on blurb.com, once a single copy of a book has been purchased the book or books will stay on their servers until the account owner delete it.
So while it's still in development, I have come up with the following possible cover for the book and despite the movie and all of the other Brian's who have lives too, none of them have had the life I have had, so it's this Brian's life,and like "The Chairman of the Board" sang, I am doing it my, because it's my life and my photography.
So just remember, "When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble; give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best. And... always look on the bright side of life.."
