so many topics get discussed here, that it sometimes makes my head spin…but, it all pretty much centers on "the photographic life" and how we can all best "live it"…yes, the photographs themselves are indeed our final "net worth", yet getting to these photographs , this incomparable journey, is an entity in and of itself…
this is not exactly "news"…but, i never cease to be inspired by this simple simple fact that this journey is unending and leads us down paths we would never go down without our cameras in hand….seeing something, being a part of something "for the very first time", just gets me BUZZING in way that unfortunately i cannot really put into words…
last night was such an experience…the owner of my building in New York is an Hasidic man …Nachman…a man hard to know, hard to "figure out", rarely speaks, and seems mostly to want his rent check on time…i have never signed a legal piece of paper in my three years in the now almost famous "kibbutz" building and my "business" with Nachman is all eye contact and a hand shake…it works….i pay my rent on time and that is that….i have asked Nachman from time to time if i could photograph is family…he always says no…three years worth of NO..
just one day before i went down to the beach to be with my family, Nachman stopped by to get his rent check….he sat down….for a long 20 minutes or so….even smiled…he invited Mike and Marie and me to his daughter’s wedding….nobody else in the building was invited and we were the only non-Jewish guests to be…this wedding was last night and i had absolutely zero time to go, but i went anyway…with ten rolls of 220 Tri-X (not enough)…
i will get to the point….i think most of you know that i have been blessed with being able to make photographs almost every day since i was 12 or so… some might think by now that i would have "seen it all"…maybe even bored with having seen it all…surely i have "been around the block" a few times…however, even i continue to be amazed at being amazed…
what i witnessed last night, or rather what i was a "part of" last night at the wedding , was definitely a "for the very first time" immersion ….
a brand new never saw this before didn’t know this happened before what is going to happen next i am not prepared and i am missing everything kind of experience…do you know this feeling??
if only i had any kind of insight or knowledge or "guide" or anything, but i had to take it "straight up"…no clues…no "map"…Nachman smiled watching me "work"…and all i could think of was that i had better get something "good enough" to make Nachman happy…
i was not thinking about you or my Magnum mates or anybody to "satisfy" except Nachman….somehow i was working for HIM…..yet, he did not ask me to take one single picture of anything in particular and i offered to do so ….he has seen my "work in progress" on my walls, has never commented on any of it, and yet he seemed to know exactly what i was doing and what i would do and he let me roll roll roll…
when Marie and i sat down briefly last night to "review the evening" we commented to each other…."now THAT is what photography is all about…." to be so so INSIDE and to bear witness to something that you would NEVER have seen otherwise…even the other Hasidics did not see or experience what i did….i moved freely from the "men’s side" to the "women’s side", so NOBODY actually experienced the wedding in quite the way that did i…
ENERGY comes from these moments….our "raison d’ete"…all of the other "stuff" that we all have to put up with in our often frustrating craft , totally disappears when we slide into the warm arms of real discovery and enlightenment….
don’t tell anybody, but i only left the party (yes, Hasidics party!!) when i RAN OUT OF FILM!!…but, i think the moment was over anyway…at least, that is what i keep telling myself….i do not even want to know what happened later…regrets?? oddly , no….
oh yes, did i get any good pictures?? quien sabe…i made all of my usual mistakes…i only hope i have something that Nachman will like…
i would just like to see him smile one more time…
PANOS: Thanks for the warm welcome to this forum. Makes me thing of an entry not very long ago, someone saying to another newcomer, something like when you get a provocative response from Panos, it’s a warm welcome to the forum (I am not going back to check what exactly was written since it was in a thread of 500 or 700 entries). This time though I thank you for the encouraging words, and I might come back being more provocative myself next time. And I agree with you. Let’s get more live reportage from Perpignan!
“…you don’t want a fairground carousel for a shutter speed dial…”
JUSTIN.. you made me laugh…!!!
thank you… thats the word i was looking for…
“fairground carousel”….
You still have the power to make people laugh….
i told you , you are a STRONG mind… a fighter…
ok… i’m done…
neeext…!
Panos,
Interesting that you say more subtitles. I was always under the belief (from working with DAH mostly) that the photos have to tell the story, thus the photo essay. I had thought of doing more on sub-titles and decided to see what came out in the comments.
I have noticed that you do a lot of subtitles and always wanted to say that I never really needed them due to getting your photos without even reading what you wrote. Of course, your words did help to explain more.
What do others on this blog feel about subtitles? Should “photo” essay have subtitles or is it acceptable? If published in a magazine along with a story, photos have captions. But as a photo essay…..
Interested to see what others think on this.
Bob,
Thanks for your comments. More, more & more? Gosh. How long did it take me to finally get these ones up. But I feel what you say.
Thanks all. Appreciate the good feedback.
Lee
OTTO..
it was David McG… talking about “rattling my feathers”…
laughing… :-)))))
and yes… please writ more often… you dont even have to be “provocative”… or “cool”… or “smart”… or “sexy”…
or “bringing the next BIG THING”… just “accept”… us,
we are weird sometimes… but we “need” you…
because YOU are YOU….
so please “BE YOU AND ONLY YOU”…and “we” are “all” ears….
peace
Bob!
Your bones stuff is amazing. Especially the one with the silhouette and the bones suspended behind. I have read from your entries that you are “blind?” Your photos always make me feel what it would be like to have partial or very little eyesight. This series really touched me. Amazing work. You have been talking about this series for a while now and I was wondering what Bones would be all about. Thanks for a peek. I look forward to more, more and more.
The one of the kids on the tour as if seen by a person with no peripheral vision. I would love to see you do your work and discover how you achieve this effect. Your black and white work blows me away. The white contrasty grainy effect really works for you. Lots of photographers have tried this and failed. You do not.
Again, thanks for the peek.
Lee
LEE…
dont get me wrong… i agree with you 100%..
i was the one talking so much shit to Sean last year ( because of a story vs photos ).. im the only one slapping the shit out of NatGeo…
for the same reason…
but let me tell you what i noticed…
Even IF YOU ARE PICASSO or HCB, or L DA VINCI or DAH or KOUDELKA… you still have to respect and embrace the audience…
make them feel… your photos still tell a story anyways…
make it stronger…
im old school… one photo , 1000 words…
i thought i was hardcore… purist… BULLSHIT…
now i wanna tell people a story… im a storyteller…
if my photos are that good and speak for themselves … more power to me …
but bullshit… if there is power in the photos that is great..
but why not enhance it…?
why not a story????
now if the photos are NO GOOD then FUCK THE STORY…
NO STORY OVER PHOTOGRAPHY…
NEVER THAT… but how about a GREAT STORY ( only if there is one ) to hug and make love to those photos…
and when i say “story”… i dont mean
an explanation manual… no, no, no…
im so eager to read BOB’S “story” of the “BONES”…
i never read it , but thats exactly what i mean….
Lee, im not asking for details.. but for “key” words..
that will make your photos “spin in my head”…
ok… taking 15 min of , to smoke and get it together…
peace
LEE said above ( for Bob)
“…The white contrasty grainy effect really works for you. Lots of photographers have tried this and failed. You do not…”
I know Lee…i know ..
i’ve been one of those photographers… ;-)))
( damn, you guys wont let me smoke… tonight )
lee –
agreed: a photo should tell a story, especially as part of an essay. isn’t that part of the reason we do what we do?
however, i always thought/was taught that through captioning and added words, others could gain background details a picture didn’t always have.. BUT..
that implies the words aren’t repeating information readily gained from looking at the photos.
panos –
i love the added sound effects.. YEEP!!! :)
-aw……?????
is that Martin B…?
lol. no. just a previous ‘lurker’ wanting to add a comment.
cool… DOPE…!
right on “-aw”… ;-)))))))))
JUSTIN
My heartfelt condolences… We all only ever have one mother, but all mothers are mothers to us all… my thoughts are with you on your loss…
BOB
Its true if you have good bones they stand the test of time indeed… Beautiful work, bruz…
ALL
Just got back from the wilds of the Top End and Central Oz… bloody hell, it was a bumpy time! Will fill you in on further developments quite soon!
Its nice to see that so many people are now a part of this place, but its almost impossible to keep up- I am just so busy looking at everyone’s work!
I think I vaguely remember in DAH’s last post that he was looking for commitments from people to some how work something out for maintaining the site, just a suggestion, but maybe we could set up something as an adjunct to this blog that could do say a monthly showcase of a photographers work?
Then all the contributors could have a month of attention/scrutiny/publicity all for themselves when they felt ready?
I am just having a really hard time keeping up with the work being shown via the blog, while its quite organic and I love that I know I am missing heaps and If I could just go to one place and see the photographers work develop over a month long period rather than sifting through 700 blogs entries, then I reckon I would see more effectively…
Whaddya reckon?
Cheers
Lisa
Panos,
I do remember your discussion now about Sean’s work. I will work on that and repost. I also have gotten inspired by some of the comments.
The hardest part for me is over–putting it out there.
Lee
I agree with you Lisa. I sometimes hit a discussion about someone’s work and have totally missed the posting and sometimes never find it. The student work page of this blog is jammed with stuff and is so over powering I gave up. Sometimes when I have an hour or so I check in but I am way behind.
So even though I miss some stuff on this section with posted work I am catching much more than through the student work page. Plus, I really like the discussions that are going on. Different little pods of people talking on different subjects all on the same page. You catch the thread that interests you and it works.
Lee
Totally agree…we need a fast, simple place to show the work…but then who is gonan run, curate, edit all of that?
yes LEE.. please do… bring the old ( me ) back…!
thats what we ALL “need” tonight…
( but, what i was saying though.. was based on Sean’s hypothetical
“vacation” in china )…
i later met the “real” Sean… !!! he really lives or lived in china…
he is a REAL STORYTELLER of the best kind…)…
this is part of why PROUDLY i host and post his comments from
motherfucking China… its a sign of brotherhood and mutual respect.
when we said goodbye in C/VILLE’S airport… we cried like two
little bitches… tell you that for shure…
ok… let me roll one more!
Lisa, Rafal….
pleasaeee… why are you killing the VENICE SPIRIT here ???
why do you wanna “organize”… everything so perfectly…
and easily… and wisely…
leave it ROUGH.. LOOOOOSE and hippie looking…
;-)
Panos,
it would be an alternative….why not? People can still show work here but I would love to be able to have a place where the work is displayed in a more logical way.
but, Rafal… and ALL …
DON’T WE HAVE THIS…???????? please on the link below….
“please post your links here….
let’s see how this works….if you have a link for your photographs , just post it here and nowhere else…no comments please…a caption for your work is ok…if you want to comment on someone’s work, just post under “road trips”….maybe this will work , maybe it won’t…anyway, we will give it a try….
Posted at 05:06 PM | Permalink”
http://davidalanharvey.typepad.com/workshops/2008/05/please-post-you.html#comments
did i say “rattling”… instead of “ruffling”…?????
sorry…
Lee
You have showed us inviting story, You have to show us a novel! We are hungry, and you are good story teller… please tell us some novel… like “War and Peace” or “In Search of Lost Time”
:)
Bob
so… when you are publishin your photo book???? Your jazz photo book?
peace
I am thinking…..
Lee
BOB “BONES” B
Good god man you have REALLY gone and done it this time!!! There are no words to describe what your “teaser” images stirred in me. I could barely catch my breath, it was like I’d been kicked in the solar plexus. Tears stood in my eyes. My mind could hardly take it in, my heart had to take over.
Somehow I’d known from the beginning that this project was going to take you–and your viewers/readers with you–beyond where you’d ever gone before, but I could not have imagined that these images would or even could have this much POWER. Artistically they are up there with the finest photographs I’ve ever seen, but it goes so much deeper than that. In just these few images you have tapped into the ETERNAL, the SOURCE of all life, our COMMON HISTORY.
I am in awe, and now eagerly await seeing/reading the entire BONES body of work. Please don’t leave us waiting too long…
in loving gratitude
Patricia
LEE
Tender, vulnerable, poignant, truthful. Those are just a few of the words that come to mind as I looked at your essay three times. Such beautiful work, not just “work” but such a beautiful life you are choosing to lead and to share with us. As others have said, you are a true storyteller. I look forward to seeing more. I want to meet ALL the bachelors and see how your meetings with them unfolded…
May the healing continue.
love & peace
Patricia
Hello all,
Here is the link of some photos of my yesterday to Visa pour l’Image, they are just “souvenir” photos made with a small digital device
http://web.me.com/audreybardou/AB/visa.html#40
For the persons who do not know, I do not indeed speak about English, I use an on-line translator http://www.reverso.net/ ,and I regret it…
Yesterday, I crossed a very beautiful day, I made some exhibitionsin Perpignan, Alexandra Boulat died recently, Paole Pelligrin, Wasif whom I did not know, I love Perpignan, it is a very beautiful city, and I hope that you will come all one day to Visa. It was a real pleasure to meet you, Eric, Lassal, Laura, Gina, Lance, Pierre-Yves and naturally David!! I shall post a little later David’s editing, it chose my images with such an ease, the hands “danced” with my images, I am so happy if you knew, one very thank you to my official translator ERIC, I crossed 2 very beautiful days in your company…
Gina, please think of me for look 3, if you wish it, I can maybe send you images by e-mail, say the I…
Lassal, thank you for David’s mask, I love it!! I laughed a lot!! I wait impatiently for your images of yesterday…
I return to Perpignan on Friday and Sunday, David, if you wish it, I can bring you my Rose’s images, said the I… thank you still and I love my dedication!
In very soon, audrey
LEE…
now you have confused me…again!!
the student work page rarely has additions…only after one of my workshops and then the student slide show for the week is posted under “movies”…
are you talking about all the links?? that is just the place where everyone can post their link…mostly for my use only…but, of course, anyone can check it out…
here is just for the assignments going on and whatever anyone wants to show…
this forum is quite a bit like one of my workshops…things look chaotic at some point, and then it all comes together in the end…
i am personally reviewing all the assignments going on….i know who is doing what….as i have announced several times, this will all be posted in one nice clean clear way as soon as all of the editing is done…
once all the editing is done (for those who need it) , then all of this work, plus some of the work from the links, will be presented to the jury of EPF for consideration for grants…
or am i confused about your confusion???
cheers, hugs, david
LEE :))))
thanks so much for the kind and supportive words. I really appreciate them alot! As for the series, it started like this: In April, i went to NC to go to my brothers wedding, alone. It was the first time i had traveled away from Marina and Dima (alone) in 6 years. Also, it was the first time I had seen my dad (because of money and physical distance) in 6 years. It was a powerful and emotional trip. I wrote David from the chicago airport. I took 1 roll of film, 1 camera (my lomo) and shot. On the day before i left, something very bad happen to dima (he and a friend were attacked at knife point outside his school and had stuff stolen and dima was bruised up). I found out the morning i left to return….the entire time, all i could think about was him, his health (primarily emotional) and what this felt like…as a father dealing with my child who was in pain and who i could not protect (i was away), for we cannot ever really protect those we love…later, i developed the film from NC and this, coupled with what happened to dima i realized that I was going to do something (photo or writing or both) about my father and dima and loss. When David announced his “ASSIGNMENTS” i originally was going to do something else: i thought about doing a photo essay on the “workshop” phenomenon. Magnum was here for the CONTACT festival and I thought, maybe i’ll write chris Anderson and ask if i can photograph him and his students for the week…and then…something else happened in my life, and i realized that i would go back to do the essay on my father and dima and dinosaur bones…it happened when i looked again at a book I had made for Marina over christmas, when i relooked at the picture of Dima i’d made (i showed it here last week, the “cloud” photo as David described :) )…i realized, that i had to do this, even if it would be a failure: so…4 weeks of shooting + 1 photo from last October (dima) + 1 roll from NC…most of the photos were shot over 4 visits to the History Museum, 2 times with Dima, 1 time with a student, 1 time alone…+ pics from my son’s elementary school graduation (same time) + at a barber shop (first time i ever went with him for a hair cut) + a street festival for children…all of these are now part of BONES OF TIME…the story had begun as something about dima, my dad and me (about bones and memory and family) and then in the middle it changed…it became, i think, about something more than just about my story…i hope it will make sense when y’all get to see it…it’s actually a pretty big body of work with lots of small tributaries, but i hope it will speak to some…as for the “technique” of the Iris with kids (my son is in that picture), well, it’s pretty easy…just using my body and things around me…i wanted some pics with 35mm to mimic the same iris i get when i use holga/diana….and yes, i am blind (completely) in one eye (coates disease) and this has defined me since i was a child…and everything about my life…haunted by it…but maybe it’s given me something else too ;))…the boy in the silhouette is also my son…and there is a reason for that too…but that will have to wait ;))
as for your series, here’s what i meant: i really think the pictures of you and the pictures of you with the photographs of the men are incredibly heart=breaking and yet AFFIRMATIVE…i like several of the portraits of the men, or the man (he has such a warm and kind face), but i think in this series, it works for me seeing them in photos along with you…for example, instead of showing us the photos, why not photographs the photographs, as you do in the series with the bed…i dont want to write about why i’d like to see that (that would be too didactic) but i think that’s the heart…that’s the right distance you need, as i remember you struggling with the issue of distance…but, i think all the pictures of you with the pictures of the men near you or on the bed (i love the photo where you are holding 2 pics) are key and heartbreaking…keep the kiss picture (it reminds me of d’agata’s pic of kissing) and then “move away” with the men: keep them as pics…and thats why i want more more….like a musical piece 2 keys: minor (men photos) major (you)…
ok….
fee us more…
BOB’s “BONES”
first, I really like the “tactile” quality of your B&W.
Your images brought back the memories of my trips to museums as a school child, the strange cold feeling that every time caught me, for some moments, thinking that what I was seeing/touching/walking-on once was alive or inhabitated; thinking about all the people that once were there (living, using, wearing, collecting those things) and now they are simply gone; just feeling the breath of time…
BROTHER PANOS :)))))
thanks so much, means alot to me. but, you’re WRONG! THERE IS ALREADY ONLY 1 PANOS! :))…i can tell a Panos picture from a mile away too!!!, just as i can tell a panos comment from (a galaxy away! ) :)))))))…no doubt no doubt…maybe you just dont see your YOU yet…but i do!…i love lots of the Venice Orgy pics and some (as david and others have said) are just flat out gorgeous…especially the light and the way it plays off the people’s lives: all that “entertainment” and “acting” and “madness” and yet it is so so sad and lonely looking…i know that there will be a great book called VENICE: LIVE photos by Panos…the beautiful and mad and sad mess, the human life, that is that wild splotch of land against the sea….you aint got nothing to worry about…each of us, EACH PERSON ALL has their own song to sing and there aint no comparison with another, and i hear your voice, always, unmistakably! :)))
JORGE: thanks so much amigo. yes, i love the history museum and part of my (seems like entire) childhood was spent at the NY Museum of Natural History…this work is about my memories of my childhood there too :)))…
SISTER LISA: :))))…thanks so much…cant wait to show you the entire mad mess…it’s alot of pictures…anyway, Tamara was wondering how you are (she was worried)..please call her…and send me your skype address so we can chat sometime, face t o face :))))
MARTIN :))))…thanks amigo…when published, u’ll get one! :))))
PATRICIA! :))))))
thanks so much and really i cant wait to send you the series…and one of the pics is actually dedicated to you (you’ll see after this weekend)…i actually thought alot about you while scanning,editing…and as i told you, i hope that if it works, it will speak…it’s mad crazy, crazier than the preview, and better pics to come, but once i finalize the edit and send to David, i’ll send the series to you…and you can pic 1 and i’ll give you one (since i still owe you that promise) :)))…our conversations are always in my head and heart :))))) keep the faith sister! :)))
ok, i have to go…no more comments for me until i finish the edit process…i owe david this, to get him the essay when he returns from France…
running
b
p.s. AS TO THE FORMAT: keep it…the brilliance of this place is that it isnt flickr or pbase or lightstalkers or photosight or photographer or magnum or vu, the brilliance is that it’s so random that it feels like life….too much “organization” will kill it…let people HUNGER for what they missed!
ABELE :)))
thanks…that’s it, about the breath, the physical, tactile sense of memory and time and that it lives in us as physically as sensation and that others, even those disconnected to us, live in us too…but, im getting ahead of myself…hopefully this will be felt when the stuff gets shown…
thanks so much
b
david, perpignan crew
have train tickets, will arrive at 9.30pm saturday, will text when i arrive
no place to stay, but it’s the “perpignan big all night party” right? :-)
(serves me right for deciding so late)
looking forward to meeting y’all (again)…
bob, lee
strong emotional work… will comment soon! (still owe panos comments too, i’m falling behind!)
love
audrey
YOU ARE A STAR – thanks for the photos
so funny to see the DAH masks.. and PEP looks like an inspiring place.
great that you were able to see the exhibitions before it became to busy.. i love the spaces.. walls where the frames are hung.
beatiful place.
bob
well done on bones.. looks good.
anton..
envous.. very envious.. i wish i had though sooner and i´d be on that train.. next year..
david mc
patricia
gui
i´m going to be lecturing on narrative work tomorrow and will be showing your work, along with others.. i will collect useful comment, compliments and generally let you know how yoru work is helping the students see diffrent themes, styles and the choices available to them for this months documentary project.
badass all..
onward
lee
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27850900@N03/2825086881/in/set-72157607097176405/
beautiful.
all
without wanting to bore you about the editing – my negatives are FINALLY well on their way from N.gland to norskwayland.. YES
within 4 weeks i will again have access to all of my archive and will be scanning a bunch of new stuff for the decade book project.. soon as i have the ´new´old work to show i shall do..
i´m looking forward to it so much now.. i can recommend emigrating with nothing but a laptop and a bag of clothes.. and 8 months or so with no more than that is great fun.. however, getting things back again, after such a good time-span to reorganize my head and perspective, is a really welcome thing.
new eyes..
finally – anyone digging alberts work and book?
some of the oldest colour photos i´ve seen.. fantastic stuff..
http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/
DAVID B
box of negatives will arrive the same day as your son… i’m sure… a great day that will be…
:ø) what a treat that would be…
PEP looks brilliant.. where are you getting the train from and to… just… out of interest..
LEE….
you are doing some very interesting work following your divorce…and , of course, i recognize the “ken and barbie” photograph…
i hope we will have some time to personally get together and edit…miraculously i will be able to do “one on one” editing with most of the photographers here who are doing assignments..in Perpignan alone i will be able to work with at least 6 or 7 of the photographers working now…
will you be anywhere near New York in september??? it would be terrific if we could meet in person…
i was also very curious about something else…you and i have worked together three times in workshops as i recall…isn’t that correct??? each time you had a totally different motive…the last time in New York , you started with dealing with divorce and then changed to the “neighborhood” piece (which from a photographic standpoint really stands out among all of your work)…is there not a way for you to put the “neighborhood” look into the bachelor work?? you almost seem like two different photographers….when i saw “neighborhood” i thought “ok now, Lee is really on to it”…yet, i liked the personal aspect of dealing with your split up and divorce…
i guess what i am trying to say is that i like the “look” and “feel” of “neighborhood”, but i like the subject of “bachelors”…can the twain meet???
cheers, david
BOB….
you have been “teasing us” with Bones for a long time….i cannot wait to see the whole essay in one nice tight format…
now, maybe i was looking at Flikr wrong, but i only saw five photographs..is that correct?? you say you have 40..as prints??…will you bring those to New York?? i am hoping you can show up as a guest “jam” for perhaps my first loft workshop (sept 12-17)…possible?? if not, i have a week off between the two (the other is from sept 27-oct3) and was hoping to have a day in New York to spend with as many of you from the forum as possible to see where we go from here…that would also be a good time to take a solid look at Bones…
as i was explaining to Lee in an earlier comment, the “chaos” we see now, will manifest in a “grand finale” in due course…if you look backstage during even the best of stage productions or go to a movie set during production or watch a book in the layout process , what do you see?? apparent chaos….
process is one thing…final product another…
we are in the PROCESS….
i see Bones as one of our most interesting personal “visions”…and the words to go with it will only make it an essay to remember…and it screams out to be a book…
please try to get to New York….i am waiting for you…
hugs, david
DAVID B
As I told you by email I feel incredibly honored to be one of the featured photographers in your class on Narrative Photography. You might want to recheck my project page, though, as I just added more photos early this morning Eastern US time. I’m now up to 26 images and am calling it “I See And Am Seen.”
http://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker/daily_life
ALL
Of course I invite everyone to visit my updated project and give feedback. Your views are always helpful.
Patricia
DAVID B
train goes direct from bruxelles-midi to perpignan, 7 hrs straight… smooth ride…
if you can get to brussels…
a
DAVID :)))
i think i put up 7 preview pics…and yes, i have 40…that i like….working to send you the edit by Sunday night (will send to ny then)…i can make small prints to bring to show you in ny, yes, absolutely…the 7 photos at flick are just a tease…there are “better” pics, but the whole essay, i hope, will be stronger than what you’ve jsut seen :))))…i hope, as i told you before, to get people really excited…i wish i should post more, but i made myself a promise not to show any more until you’ve had a chance to look at my edit (when you return from Perp)…
as for ny….we wanted originally the come in sept but since Labor day didnt work, we schedule a weekend camping trip for the weekend of the 12th (me marina and dima, first family vacation together in 16 months)…we’d thought about coming Octob 10th, but if it’s better for you we can shoot for sept 27th-3rd…either way, i will call u mid week next week (didnt want to call u last weekend, after i left the message, ’cause i knew you were with your mom)…but, let’s chat on the phone and nail it down…either way: do not worry: WE WILL BE THERE SOON! :))))…now, it’s only a question of date…
as for the chaos, no worries, david, i dont get nervous about any of that shit…my biggest concern for last 2 months has been only the writing and the photos and making something that i am proud of, that’s all i care about: to make something strong for my dad and dima and for you folks to enjoy it…at this point im very proud and excited and hope u will be too…
but you will have first peak, the first person, after Marina and Dima…waiting for u when u return…
and as for talking with other bloggers, if they’re in town, would be wonderful…(i know some of the NY crowd will be)…so, dont worry, i’ll do whatever you all need to take the blog to the “next level” …whatever you need me to do, i’ll do it…you’ve got my commitment :))))
ok, gotta run…
let me know when you return from Perp, and i’ll call u…
hugs and love from marina
b
AUDREY
Love your photos from Perpignan!!! The DAH masks are so funny, and it’s great to see some of our sister and brother bloggers, but where are you? Self portrait please! Seeing David working an edit brings back wonderful memories, and I anticipate seeing his edit of your powerfully poignant project of your parents. Such a significant body of work! Thanks for showing us a bit of the beautiful city and the Visa pour l’Image exhibits. We’re with you in spirit. Have a glorious time!!!
Patricia
DAH
in all new european time.. good to have you over here
i hope that ´living in the future..` (by 8 hours at least) is being kind to you.
patricia
thats very good of you.. kind enough for you to allow me to show your work and having the courage to say YES.
i think the biggest benefit the students will get from the work is that it perfectly illustrates that the SUBJECTS we all photograph are not as limited as we see in the every day media..
so long as they make an effort to photograph thoroughly.. choose a story they care about.. edit well.. have the confidence to show and the ears to hear feedback then they cannot go wrong.
i feel with them (with myself sometimes) that the only work which much of the photographic community respect involves harder edged topics and people in tough or controversial situations..
what your work, and gui and david mc´s illustrates as a trio is that a passion for photo-creating and a keen eye.. perseverance and patience.. hard work and intelligent thought.. can make any subject appealing and can produce inspiring snaps.
thanks again patricia.. you´re a wee star and its great to see you on the boards again..
anton
thanks
will have a chat with beate. brussels is not so far.
anton
no joy with flights for saturday and teaching tomorrow.
yer on yer own :ø)
CHAOS
i like it..
it´s only this year that i think i understand that fully though.. so much chaos to now distill into tight, tidy and simplified form.
i think half the trouble i had with seeing where i was going before this year óff´has been due to the chaos of working.. shooting compulsively and planning trips.. funding.. sales..
i´d never been afforded the time to see the bigger picture and easily see the conclusion and the new direction to continue.
love it.
sometimes when i read what you write david, i breath a sigh of relief and realise that i was doing okay all the time, even when i thought i was completely loosing the plot.
ta very much.
david b
damn… but okay, next year is another chance for sure. nothing lost
’bout the chaos: i’m at that point in my life now that i’m trying to create it (for my photography); trying to generate the momentum and “bring the chaos” into it, because i feel (from starting a company couple of years ago) that this is the way to achieve a dream: dive in, go for it, swim for your life like you’re almost drowning, fear of death and liking the journey at the same time
oh and then the relief afterwards when you see the bigger picture and you feel it has not been in vain… one of the best feelings out there… you’ve actually created something “real” out of thin air
come to think of it: the chaos, the seemingly not knowing where we’re going, the energy, the sparks of it becoming “real”… all EXACTLY the same in DAH house here…
Worth to see…
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