| My pictures are far from being documentary photographs or snapshots. However, I make them for much the same reason that people take pictures of historic events or their travels or a child’s first steps: to bear witness, to remember, to say, “This is special. I was there. This is what I saw.” This desire to record life’s moments in all their intricacy and beauty is reflected in my photo blog, “the dailies.”The content of my photo blog, which I regard as the truest representation of my artistic sensibility, is diverse. I would describe my eye as “omnivorous,” and my pictures, taken as a whole, resist easy categorization. In any given week, one may find images from my family life, my neighborhood in Brooklyn, my fashion portfolio, or my erotic work. | 
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Aeric Meredith-Goujon
Aeric Meredith-Goujon, Untitled (amg cat. #07-dec26-034). Archival Inkjet print, 19 x 13 inches, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.My pictures are far from being documentary photographs or snapshots. However, I make them for much the same reason that people take pictures of historic events or their travels or a child’s first steps: to bear witness, to remember, to say, “This is special. I was there. This is what I saw.” This desire to record life’s moments in all their intricacy and beauty is reflected in my photo blog, “the dailies.”
The content of my photo blog, which I regard as the truest representation of my artistic sensibility, is diverse. I would describe my eye as “omnivorous,” and my pictures, taken as a whole, resist easy categorization. In any given week, one may find images from my family life, my neighborhood in Brooklyn, my fashion portfolio, or my erotic work. It is with my erotic work that I distinguish myself and let my philosophies on life and photography find their fullest expression. I find the visual experience of sex profoundly beautiful, with the fragility of those images in my mind being equally profound. One can sense the genuineness of this feeling in the photographs’ visualization of sexuality. Regardless of the content, which can at times be extremely graphic, provocative, and candid, the images are always sincere and approachable. The most interesting aspect lies in my ability to capture moments of such amazing sensual and sexual fervor.
A quiet intensity burns through all of my images, from the landscapes to the abstractions to the portraits. I care deeply about what I am shooting. While being a voyeur (which in essence all photographers are to some extent), I do not sensationalize or exaggerate. I merely reflect with honesty and candor the beauty that life has to offer me.
My pictures are essentially about the intersection of the two guiding impulses that feel the most true to me as an artist. On the one hand, there is the drive to realize whatever kinds of images that rise up from my imagination without making any judgment as to content or subject matter, besides asking, “Does that resonate in my heart?” On the other hand, there is the desire for visual beauty and photographic craft. The challenge I’ve set for myself is to become completely uncompromising on both fronts and to allow my images to grow freely out of this dual commitment.
My inspiration is the immense gratitude I continually feel toward the artists who have enriched my life with their work.
