Fine Art Photography & Archival Quality Prints
Journal
Journal
Street photography is an incredibly rewarding and grateful activity. The physical exercise of walking and sometimes literally chasing an image, the felt excitement, the unexpected encounters with beautiful strangers and fellow human beings that are, as Henri Cartier-Bresson used to put it, consenting victims, it all is rewarding enough. The photograph is just the bonus.
Van Gogh on Steroids: experiencing the Hockney Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
If you mix Klimt, Van Gogh, and Hieronymus Bosch, do you get Kiefer? Of course, there’s more to an artist than the sum of those who may have inspired him, but it was interesting to see reflections of these great masters transpire in some of his works. The applied gold is perhaps the most obvious, together with the patches of reed and straw swirling through a teal sky. I thought the dark blacks were reminiscent of the third part of Bosch’s triptych as well.
Did you know you don’t see colours in the same way the person next to you does? And I’m not merely talking about colour blindness. In this new blog, we’ll be contemplating on what this means for the possibilities of sharing experiences through photography, and how this is different from what I expected when I started out many decades ago.
It's fascinating how true value is created by simply applying oneself with passion and love for whatever it is we are doing.
A great photograph is an experience. It is seeing the image and feeling in love, amazed, inspired. It is the perfect alignment of light, lines and perspective that opens a myriad of doors; time travel, instant travel, dreams and imagination, connection, memories, nostalgia and even liberation.
