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05/23/2015 01:44:39 AM |
| Loved this Henry. I particularly like how I am drawn into each scene by your technical prowess, the high contrast, sharp detail and the unassuming simplicity of your complex compositions. I am compelled to acknowledge and reconstruct scenes and stories upon multiple viewings, which drives me to discover more and more, it really does make one savour every discoverable morsel. I especially admire numbers 12 & 14. Thank you for a wonderful gift. |
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05/19/2015 05:15:44 PM |
| It's bits of life under cover. It's all the awnings, tarps, jackets, dirt and darkness brought together in the sort of symphony of shape and mystery...it's so good. It is more quiet than your previous essay but I don't get lonely...alone-ness yes, but this comes from someone who loves being alone probably more often than most people. There is a comfort in darkness. It goes with the quiet. The shadows make me curious. The shadows make me wonder. Many of these images appeal to me on a abstract level also, these great collections of shape and form, light and shadow. It's strange, I can almost hear how quiet it is...maybe just the soft rustling of an awning, a hushed voice or a hurried step to punctuate the completeness of it. I also like the back and forth of being inside and outside, under then out in the open. |
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05/14/2015 12:45:11 PM |
Originally posted by mariuca:
I feel that you walk very softly around your subject as to leave no marks and cast no shadows and only after a certain understanding of it you capture it on the camera.
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Sheesh, but she's good. Exactly what I felt, but did not know how to say.
The darkness is so important. Normally something to run from, in your case it gives structure, binds together, with just that ever-present need to want to take two steps closer to see inside it.
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05/11/2015 09:13:53 AM |
What struck me looking at this photo narrative is that the "secrets" you captured are in permanent change. I feel as if you squinted as one does when one wants to see better a scene to remember it better, pushed the button and then you made a graphic representation of it as one makes a chart of an foreign land.
There is always a certain elegance in your photography that is undefinable. I feel that you walk very softly around your subject as to leave no marks and cast no shadows and only after a certain understanding of it you capture it on the camera.
Hope you already embarked on a new theme for next month! |
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05/06/2015 06:04:26 PM |
| beautiful photographs. a sadness, dark overtakes the light but there is hope. the last image i see a sun shinning through the dirty pane. i can reach it if only i try hard enough |
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05/04/2015 01:12:49 PM |
| I am so impressed by your brilliant capture of light and shadows. It first glance I see gorgeous bold images of dark and light and quickly move on to a thrill with each detail I recognize (power lines, weeds, hanging cloths, rips in fabric). For some reason the details are very meaningful to me. I find the combination of the bold black and white and the visible details to be very powerful. I have so many favorites this time I won't even try to pick them out. It has been such a treat to spend time with your essay and I am sure I will be back many more times. |
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05/02/2015 09:36:59 PM |
| beautiful photography, every photo stands firmly on its own. But in a series like this, we, the viewers, have an additional pleasure of tracing the stated theme in each of them. Like a good jazz improvisation, where every solo takes the theme and moves it in a new direction, sometimes very far, only to bring it back and pass it on. |
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05/01/2015 08:56:45 AM |
More radical than the earlier essay 'Indifferent Sun'. This time the images seem like they are a deck of cards used for prophesy, like tarot cards. Probably prompted by the crop and the framing, but there's still something more symbolic in this set than was the case in 'Indifferent Sun.' Tarot-style cards was the very first thought I had this time; never occurred to me last time.
Some images have a strange ambivalence, where looked at one way the darkness is background, and then another way it's reversed and the light is the background. I think some are very interesting exercises in perception and negative space. The truck is a great example, with the 'city skyline' above it. But there's some element of that flip-flop perception in nearly all of them.
Always absorbing, and the interest rises with the increasing uncertainty. The last 3 are my favourites. No, last 4. Actually, it's the last 6. But to tell the whole truth and nothing but, the only ones that don't stab me with a sharp thrill are 3 & 6; the two featuring human figures. The rest is PMD (Photos of Mass Delight). Thank you. |
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04/30/2015 08:10:29 PM |
| wow, you nailed your theme. this may be your best yet, which is saying something. the theme can be accused of cliche, but not your photos. they each feel like something I've never seen, and all of them expressing shadow in a different way. |
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