The snow settled in Falmouth today. Its good snow. Light and powdery. Good for snow angels. And compacting for snowballs. Always good fun with friends. Michael Kenna’s photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful – adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in …
Over the last three days I have taken some portraits of my Dad. I’m not entirely sure of my reasons why, maybe because he was ill recently and I realised I had never photographed him. I had forgotten about the scar on his neck from an operation he had a few years back. I made sure it was in shot. Scars have a story to tell. It is a reminder that we are not invincible. This skin and bones are not unbreakable. Photographer Pedro Meyer has a few thoughts… “Are scars beautiful? That depends on the beholder doesn’t it. Scars invoke …
“By undertaking a series of portraits in varying physical and social environments, I hoped to capture the nuances, norms and sense of identity that are particular to and a reflection of youth within contemporary society in the Mannheim vicinity today.” -Michelle Sank Michelle is a part time photography tutor here …
Chrystel Lebas > L’espace temps > Time in space Here is some recent work from a photographer I met last year. She is very kind. Her previous works have been, as one critic put it, haunted with her fascination of dusk, night, darkness, and the unseen corners of our world. …
I respect and value what these two practitioners have to say. David especially because of our common photographic interest in Japan. Really thankful they took time out to feedback on my work. It was really informative as well as practical advice, and has given me lots to think about. Here are some of my scrawled notes. Japanese word for death? Wabi-sabi? Decay? Look at the History of the Photo Book by Martin Parr and Jerry Badger Stream of concisouness Images bleeding into one another? Sustain a narrative? Throughout? How? Start pairing. DECAY Avoid obvious statements. Echo? Juxtapose. One spread? Double …
Yesterday I chatted with David Williams. He is easy to talk to. He is thoughtful in what he thinks and what he says. His work is thoughtful. “David Williams has recently travelled in Japan where he has photographed trees and garden spaces within the ancient Buddhist temples. The resulting series of photographs ‘one taste (n)ever changing’ delivers a meditation on nature, time and change, that evokes the esoteric koans of Buddhist teaching.” [Maybe it would be an idea to find out what esoteric koans of Buddhist teaching are?] “The trunk forms an axis for the drama of light and shade …
His Father and his Son. David Williams describes them like one of the same. One will become the other. His son will grow old. Opposites define each other.
The highlight of the Falmouth Photographic Symposium 2009 was listening to David Williams…
Listening to Melanie Manchot talking about her work today I was intrigued by the way she described the figure in context of space. “I am interested in the boundary between the privacy of the body and the public nature of the environments in which it is often expected to exist. There are endless codes of social behaviour that we all have internalised through the process of socialisation when it comes to our presence in public spaces. It is often through the tension of the body in relation to these carefully chosen locations that the meaning of the work comes to …