"I imagine (this is all I can do, since I am not a photographer) that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole of the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed".
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
The singing butler
Photographed on Morecambe Bay sands, inspired by the painting by Jack Vettriano.
“All photographs are ambiguous,” a state, John Berger argued, that’s fuelled by discontinuity. We never know the history of the moment in a single photograph, nor the outcome....
Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin meditates on the role of caption and context in our reading of photographs.
Milan. Louis Vuitton in the window. A street seller with a shawl.
We are innately curious as children. Somehow that gets knocked out of us as adults. Here is a cabinet of curiosity...
Comedy Pavement, Blackpool - There was this photographer, lying on the pavement, taking photographs of people's feet...
"A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl
Nighthawks
The negative of Diane Arbus. The positive of Edward Steichen. The abstract of Paul Strand. The macro of Fox Talbot. The insight of Susan Sonntag. The moment of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Inventive, exploratory, challenging. Many artists and photographers have inspired me, and maybe I have learned a little from them...
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Complexity - the art of possibility.
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
Oscar Wilde
Visual | Auditory | Kinaesthetic
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