This is the first chapter of my long term project called “Maybe Tomorrow”.
The project aims to reflect upon the perception man has of his own future in relation to his life on Earth, but mostly in relation to the idea of a possible life after death.
In this manner, I’ve tried to find all the elements that create not only a visual continuity but mostly a conceptual continuity with very strong symbols and cultural references. I have, thus created a link with the theme of hope and the theme of doubt and fear, for the weight of life and death.
Walking through the streets of Oaxaca or its countryside, I felt a strange emotion in seeing the moments of daily life of “campesinos”, artisans, workers, old and young people. There was an incredible power, nearly like that of magic, to their faces. In spite of the heavy work, there was a serenity and a limpid hope in their eyes.
I immediately understood that that was what i really wanted to represent with my photography. I also understood that I did not want to give answers in a journalistic manner, but would alternatively try to create questions.
I simply wanted to catch that innate suffering every man has because of being human, one who lives with a conscience in his own existence on Earth. At the same time, by living this life with effort and sacrifice, he can hope for a new life, perhaps not today, “maybe tomorrow”, maybe after the death.
Angelo Guarracino
I’m not
understanding how
these images fit
together!!!
Rap on!!! Brother!!
:)))))))))))
peace & hugs :)))))))
ANGELO…
this is the real Panos and i totally “understand” how those images fit together…
obviously i live in denial believing that the trolls will stop the attack…
Anyway, Angelo this is panos skoulidas speaking… i will write more about your essay…
soonest… obviously i have been hacked…
i had it coming
;-)
O comments?……. I cannot believe because this work touched me immediately. I love the sense of mystery and sometimes spirituality that in present in every photograph. its beautiful and sensitive which I personally am drawn to.
Unless the above just “panos” is a real person… then please go ahead please & enlighten us,
and explain why Angelo’s photos dont “fit” together…!!!!????
I see tight, strong edit… maybe a little exaggerated black and whites… loved any kind of vignette ,
atmospheric, depressing…. ( kid on the tree / legs only )…
works fine for me…
…and to my “troll imitator” above
my face has a nose also, so it looks more like this, ;-), than that :)
peace( ok, i will leave the hugs for later )
same here Valery…
;-)
It’s a good idea and the concept is really clear. The fact that not everything is visible in the image is a smart solution since whatever is under shadows becomes a metaphore: something like an uncertain future, doubt… which is what the essay refers to anyway.
saludos!
Nicely curated, Mr. Harvey. You are really carving out a niche in the online world and thus in the analog world as well. You deserve it, you are an inspiration to live life as it should be lived.
I wonder if you ought not to post copyrighted music anymore. There have been one or two other comments here about that.
You’re honoring artists on your (not so) little blog; perhaps you might consider how a musician or composer would feel knowing that their work is being broadcast without their permission. Probably the same as most photographers here would seeing their images on a blog which is read worldwide…
Otherwise, man, this is a brilliant undertaking. How you pulled it together is amazing. Where most photographers spend months if not more wondering how to update their websites, you brought this together in a matter of days.
Angelo, your work / your website: so strong, so focused. How are you so young and so polished? Wow.
sincerely,
anon
Angelo:
Very nice work, I need to sit and watch it again later.
David:
Anon has a point about the music, I was going to mention it to you. I think this can be resolved by getting an ASCAP internet license for the site. http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/
Also who is putting together the slideshows? I have a question for them. Thanks!
Beautiful and serene work Angelo! I just watched it, and it’s 2:43 in the still of the night, here in Calcutta. Its probably best watched in such silence….The music reminded me of Motorcycle Diaries’ music – by Gustavo Santaolla,is that it? Great stuff! I don’t want to spoil it with words now. Take care…
Lovely, heart felt, moved me to tears, as the questions keep rolling in. Thank you, from the bottom of my stupid heart!
Would I edit it? Yes, a bit. I’d tighten it, leaving out images such as 12, 14, 15, 16 and 24.
ANGLEO:
some Octavio Paz….in English:
Between Going And Staying
Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.
All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can’t be touched.
Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.
Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.
The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
–octavio Paz….
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG, for in fact your essay is just that, a canción del alma de luz y sombra….not only to i love the brilliant way you use shadow and light (all the Park like capes of shadow that allow us just a glimpse of sight, that pinpoint a moment that chisels our heart), but i love the way in the end the story is a celebration, not of death, but of this wandering life…for life is nothing without death and death cannot feed upon anything if not for life, for life breathes life into death and death bequeaths life and regeneration…..
the work is very powerful, and what i love about the photographs are all the magical and magnificent small moments: the little boy crossing the square past the grandfather, as small as a speck of light (6), the child (unnoticed at first) in the background of #7, the 15 year old staring at us in 8, two legs, like flowers blooming from the desert of shadow in #9, the feet again from shadow in 15, the light in the cage in 16, the iconic and brilliant 17 (the old man dreaming of his long ago lost love in the time of cholera), the masked face in the background of 18, the lightbulb and the iguana in 19, the child’s vampire teeth stare in 20, the trent park-esque brilliance of 21, the 2 profiles (eyes and shadow) of 23, the brilliant image of the man running with the ladder in a sea of hills in 28 (iconic image!), ….but these are just the touches of the individual pictures, what really compells is the arc of the story and the seemless way the photographs speak not only about Mexico, but in truth about the entirety of our living and our dying….even the catholic iconography is richer than just jesus and crosses and nuns, but burn alters of light and living….
a breath of living, a gasp of light shifted as life…
a beautiful and magnificent story….
so happy to see this today :))))
all the best
bob
,
Angelo – congratulations. Very sensual and tremendously strong.
David – sent you an email on blog comments.
Angelo, my favorite essay by far. And one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. Your cover shot (17) is *strong*. Great choice in the supporting music too. Just visited your personal site and damn your portfolio is also really strong. Thanks for publishing this freely online for everyone to experience.
Darrius
Lovely work Angelo.
A suggestion for the burn “staff”: Since we will be meeting many new photographers here (it seems) it might be nice to include a link to other work or a bio or something.
I did google Angelo and see he studied with David at a workshop in Mexico. Was this project something you started at that time Angelo? The “first chapter” concept is a good one…it will be nice to see more.
beautiful, beautiful…mesmerising, poetic…bravo Angelo.
Angelo,
I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed your work, I was sucked in from the word go! A real pleasure to view. Thank you, and keep it up!
David,
I also wonder about the use of copyrighted music, I know we spoke about this at your place. It makes me a little uncomfortable to be honest. (Heading west in a couple of days, so in the midst of packing right now, but will drop you a line once the dust has settled).
James
ANON….
thank you for your comment…of course, i respect the rights and copyrights of all artists…i am at the forefront of copyright protection in Magnum and for all artists…i do plan to double check with a copyright and music rights attorney again tomorrow…my understanding has always been regarding music or any copyrighted material that as long as nothing COMMERCIAL was involved in the playing of a song that there was no problem…we do not sell anything here, nor are there any advertisements, nor any subscription or anything…BURN loses money!!! photographers use recorded music all the time in their slide show presentations in auditoriums etc or for their speeches to students , which again is evidently worse than playing it non-commercially on the net..
i do know of course that at Magnum in Motion we need either music rights clearance or use original sound tracks..but at Magnum we are syndicated through Slate and receive advertising revenues…clearly Magnum needs music rights clearance…
by the way, my pictures are used for free all the time from the Magnum archive…anyone can go in and put on their refrigerator door, or make a slide show for their friends, or put on their blog any of my pictures or any Magnum photographer at any time…we know at Magnum that there is multiple free use of our photographs…this is no problem, or even if it was, we know that there is not much we can do about it…should someone however decide to make collectors prints, or use in a commercial magazine or in an advertising campaign , then that would be a different issue altogether….
having said all of this, i am not a lawyer…and i suppose to be on the safe side (i cannot afford to be in a lawsuit) we should refrain from using copyrighted music…as i said, i will meet with an attorney tomorrow just to be very very clear on this issue…thank you for bringing it up..
incidentally, i did not bring this together in a matter of days…in my two years of blogging i was able to mentor several photographers whose work you will soon see….Panos is a product of online mentoring and Angelo (21 yrs old) was in my workshop class in Oaxaca…you are viewing his class project…i have been teaching my whole career….shooting mostly, but teaching as well all along…
as any of my students will tell you ,BURN is really just an online manifestation of one of my classes….
maybe i did not make it quite clear enough in my home page intro, but 99% of the work which will be presented here is the work of my workshop or online students and for 99% their first attempt at an essay…the “work in progress” department here will soon be used for exactly that purpose..to show the work in progress of 5 selected photographers who i will mentor towards an essay or individualized body of work…
i look forward to your continued participation here …
cheers, david
PETE…
thanks for the license tip….i always do my student slide shows in collaboration with the student of course….Anton has been doing the tech work getting it on the new system, but is teaching me so he can go on vacation with his girlfriend….question???
i am counting on you for an essay on the Obama inauguration…you up for it???
cheers, david
STUPID…
I know you will not reveal yourself…fine by me….cool….i loved the Lone Ranger (mostly, he did good stuff) and Zorro and Batman when i was a kid , so keep the mystery going!!!…and i look at your site quite often…you have created an interesting place at the table…
my only questions are, and i think you can answer these without taking off your mask: have we ever met??? next question: will we ever meet?? last question: would i know your work or will we somehow have a chance to publish you here???
welcome…
hi ho Silver…away!!!!
cheers, david
David – you are damn funny! xoxox
CATHY….
i am the BURN staff!! at least from the editorial side and Anton has been the tech guru of all gurus and friend extraordinaire….bless you Anton bless you…i have been texting him from Colorado, he is in Brussels, so BURN has been , shall we say, not easy!!!!.Anton and i have been working 12 hours a day by remote control ever since we met in New York the first week in december…Mike and Marie will jump in soonest , and well, i think you saw all of my advisors at my place in New York…you are welcomed too at any time…
Angelo is a 21 year old student of mine from Milan…he is now set to exhibit in several galleries in Italy and beyond i am sure…what you see here is his class project he shot for my Day of the Dead workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico…you will see more students from that class soonest…
i do plan to do bios and editors notes on each photographer presented here….i launched BURN right before Christmas , which was probably the worst idea i have had in a long time (i had a reason at the time), since i immediately left to see my mother and family in Colorado and will be here until january 9…my mother does not have wifi, so i sit now in my sister’s kitchen writing you…what i am trying to say is that of course i have many things to do with this site, but most of it will happen when i return to “home base”…
Happy New Year amiga, david
JAMES…
see my comment to Anon, just above, regarding music/photos….hey amigo, i am waiting for your story….do voice over if you are worried about music, but i will have all of that cleared by tomorrow anyway….
cheers, david
HAIK…
i will look for your e-mail…i do hope to be shooting again soonest in L.A. and hope we meet…big hug to you and your beautiful family….
cheers, david
Angelo,
Your name means angel I’m sure you know that :) I enjoy seeing your firdt chapter of this long term project. It was like flying above people and plounge into their soul trough their eyes, activities and ambiances you show us with the help of your very balanced highlights and lowlights. You have beautifull ligh, shadows and little details that can only be seen by an accurate eye but that give strong to the entire photograph. Very deep, spiritual, touching and strong for a theme. I take my hat for this essay and make a bow! I’m sure you hot your subject and you know very well how you want to show it to us. Yoy’re determinated, aestetic, strong and sometimes classic in framing. Just show us the other chapters!
Sorry about the mistakes in English, I was robbed and apart from several stuff they also took my glaces
David
The use of music on a blog like BURN is something I don’t profess to know about at all, however it does seem open to interpretation… will be interesting to see what the attorney says.
Yes, you blogged for two years but still- you pulled this together finally in a super short timeframe.
Your schedule, as far as a reader can tell, is insane — how do you manage to stay focused on ANYTHING?
Speaking of which – will we see any more images from your family series at any point? Is that still ongoing?
Ciao…
a.
SOFIA…..
i do hope to see work from you in the future….i remember seeing your work several months ago and thinking that with just a little push, you would be capable of very special photography…wishing we can set up a dialogue….
cheers, david
It’s gonna snow again on Saturday David…
U guys have lots of fun…
peace
Yes the Obama inauguration will be done. I am shooting both that day and MLK day in D.C. The essay may be a combination of them both.
I just wanted to know what you are using for the slideshows? Looks like Slideshow Pro. Is is the stand alone version or is it the Lightroom plugin? I already dug into the blog code to see what plugin you are using to embed it. It looks great.
ANON…
i am focused on: my family (and family photographs),my girlfriend (even though she is mad at me now), my new beach cottage (where i will move in january), my workshops, BURN and Magnum…and my friends are sprinkled in the whole mix….a crazy life?? rich , rich (not money rich) and i am never bored (well, at the ticket counter) and i am having so so much fun….my 89 year old mother lives in her own house and drives her own car and is way busier than am i…must run in the family….
my “Off For A Family Drive” project is always underway..thanks for asking..i can work on that almost anywhere, anytime i am in the U.S…..i imagine that is two more years in the making, depending on my ability to finance it….i will show some of it here soonest….cool with a Phish soundtrack (Farmhouse), but let’s see what the lawyer says!!!
cheers, david
GINA…
come and work with me…your shop going down…we are going UP!!! corner office…..
hugs, david
Oh and what is the pluging that is nesting these comments and allowing someone to comment specifically to a certain comment?
Yeah I read your comment, I am very interested to hear about your meeting tomorrow, will check back in. I will send through the multimedia piece from the cemetery project to you as it is ready to go. I hope this will add a bit of variety too, what with its narration and live sound etc. A different approach to what we have seen so far. Please let me know how you would like it as it will be a single file. Just need to know what file format .mov, flv…? Also no size is stated in the submissions guidelines for multimedia work. Do you/Anton have a preference? In the meantime You can view the piece in the multimedia section of my site as a refresher.
Cheers,
James
Angelo –
As always…..amazing!! It was such a pleasure getting to know you, and working beside you, in Oaxaca. Glad we could stay in touch afterward as well. Hope to see more of your photos soon.
David…the Oaxaca workshop truly changed me as a photographer, it reshaped the way I see. A heartfelt thank you.
Alex
poetic..
fleeting moments..
light..
dark..
mysterious..
visual poetry….
David & Anton: Burn is beautiful! Congratulations – I hope you are both very pleased.
Angelo: I love your work! There’s just so much emotion. It is a pleasure to see it again and I look forward to much, much more.
I’ll echo Alex and say it was honor to meet and work with all of you in Oaxaca.
Best wishes for a peaceful and productive new year.
Jean
Angelo (21 yrs old)
that just blew my mind.
i have been stewing over how mature the topic was and how seasoned someone needs to be to create an essay like this…. to be sensitive to information capture that is so subtle and so sublime and so spiritual… For crying out loud… i just considered how short of a time you might have managed to collect these images in… Angelo… don’t even tell me.
i will say that you have discovered photographic ambiguity very very very early on in your path Angelo. i’m mixed between happy for you and envious of you ;-) This aspect of photography is one of the last secret weapons that the still-image has against the ease at which moving pictures can now be created. Continue to develop this at the rate you have Angelo and the still-image will surely have an formidable ally in it’s challenge to remain an important form of mainstream communication.
Apart from that Angelo, i guess i better go back to the drawing board with all my opinions as i’ve experienced a paradigm shift this morning, no use in making any case now for the maturity of ‘emerging photographers’ when someone at your age is already thinking this way. i’ll come back later (and now i feel better telling you which frames i would lose,… before i wouldn’t out of respect for my elders! ;-)
Damn David, what do you tell your students? i’ll have a dose of that.. actually i’m 50 percent older so i’ll have one and a half doses ! :-)
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Angelo,
I couldn’t sleep last night and had a nice time looking at your pictures, you have very powerful ones 6,21,26,28,30, just to name a few…
This essay is nicely put together, very nice one and consitent…
Thank you, I really enjoyed that (i had the sound off though, i prefer the images to initially stand on their own, next time i’ll put it on), you’ve taken some really beautiful inspirational pictures.
Hello Angelo,
I really enjoyed looking at your photos.
The light, the texture, the composition…
Beautifully done.
And, it’s in Oaxaca, my favorite place!
-Srinivas
Angelo, I love your work and the title “Quizas Manana” is wonderful..!
Well done, man!
pete…
here’s some techtalk.. yes it is the SlideShowPro plugin… together with SlideShowPro Director… they are insanely great… we have it integrated with a WordPress plugin aptly called “SlidePress” so we can publish straight from within the WordPress environment. some tiny tech issues remain to make it a smooth ride creating them (because of our custom “red” fullscreen button, but i’ve asked the folks over at SSP for their input, so we should resolve soon
and yes… if you have the lightroom SSP plugin, then, when you get featured for work in progress or an essay, then you will get the passcodes to be able to publish to BURN straight from your desktop…
and the same will be for PhotoShelter (they also have a standalone uploader and a Lightroom plugin, i believe)
now if that isn’t cool…
—
and about the comment threading: since WP 2.7 this is natively supported… depending on your “theme” you might have to do some tweaking in your php code, but shouldn’t be much work… took me 1/2 a day for here (and i don’t know anything about php to be honest, i’m a css man)
cheers,
anton
i second that one, david… gina come over! while working ourselves to death, we’re having great fun here :)))))
a mature piece of work..
superb single images tucked away in there and as a whole it kept me still for a while..
angelo – anywhere to see more work?
david
yeah i enjoyed that. i think it got stronger as it moved further into the essay. there were a few images towards the start of the slideshow that i would have dropped though. specifically 7+8 and 11+12.
nice work.
cheers
ben
Angelo,
Congrats on a remarkable essay. I can hardly believe that you have managed to create this body of work in such a short span of a workshop with David…. I know the man can push you in a very short time but still… much respect!!! I was also pleased to see that this is only chapter one as I do sincerely hope that we will see more from you on that topic!
Again, great stuff!
Eric
FIRST of all, i would really like to thank David for his workshop in Oaxaca…I really think it has been one of the most amazing and one of the greatest places I’ve ever visited. I am really grateful to him who let me know this wonderful piece of earth….
Thanks also to my great FRIEND Anton! the dogs whisperer eh eh eh…:-)
thanks for the slideshow! it’s really great and thanks for the music you suggested me when we were in Oaxaca.
For all the others:
my work during the workshop is the first chapter of a much longer project, which i feel i will take on for a lot of time…maybe because i do feel the phisical need to live this life-long project on my skin, before that photographically.
My project is a hope or an illusion (depends for the povs) to track one of the innumerable nuances that i am sure we can find in our daily life and in different cultures in that enormous theme which is the sense of life and the precious and unbreakable link between life and death about which mankind wonders since its birth.
And in order to do this i am planning my next flights in the very next future in greece, egypt, italy, morocco and others places.
i am glad many of you have been reached by these emotions…
thanks everyone,
see you soon,
Angelo
Dear Angelo,
I feel very strange mood from your essay….Very nice managing of light..I am very curious that how you will solve this subject…Please keep going…
I don’t know exactly about ‘Day of the dead’of Mexico…It is very similar concept of death of Oriental world. We understand Life is eternal and death is the extension of life, too.
I have much interest in this concept, too.
Thank you so much.
Kyunghee Lee
Angelo: Very strong. I love #13. Keep it up. DR
ok, i’ve already mentioned that i really enjoyed this piece, more than enjoyed Angelo, it washed over me and i pondered things, both as a photographer and as a human. i loved the spiritual mood of it and it did in-fact wash over me this way.
i hope you don’t mind me evidencing how much i liked your essay by trying hard to describe in more detail how the images made me feel. this is Not criticism, it’s purely how I feel, me personally, not anyone else, just the things that i feel while viewing the images in your essay Angelo.
to every one else… if you’re the type of person that doesn’t like to hear someone discuss ‘aspects of single images’ then you should stop reading right now.. if you think you should only look at essays as a ‘whole’… well please move along, because i’ve done that and i’ve described my feeling about that, and if you feel this way about single-image feedback then there is absolutely nothing for you to read here.. but if like me, you like to roll in your mouth, taste and savour everything in an image, then you’ll discover this is how i’m trying to give me feedback to Angelo.
So Angelo,
Frame 4 – this sets-up the spiritual mood right off the starting block, Bravo but Angelo, i’m not going to lie; the first time through this essay… the wonky horizons of this frame did unnerve me a bit, but having seen the sequence a dozen times now, i love it and wouldn’t want it any other way, it’s more organic this way, but it’s something to stay conscious of and use it deliberately, sometimes during the essay i don’t think it’s deliberate enough. With this first frame, as a photographer, i immediately recognised the selective dodging and burning,… pretending quickly to be a spectator instead of a photographer, i thought this ‘severity’ of technique is very legitimate if it only ‘bends’, but does not ‘betray’ our feeling of how light is supposed to behave…
Frames 5 & 6 – Genius Angelo, the command of graphical composition is amazing, the sense of ‘moment’ even more so, i’m more in envy than in ‘happy’ over these two images! in frame 6 i suspect there is some very clever and surgical dodging just behind the boy?… and a bit more splashed evenly through the bottom right corner of the frame? if so… it’s so subtle it’s perfect, if not, god is on your side! being really picky, in frame 5 there’s something distracting going on just under the women’s left arm that seems to defy reality, it could just be pure motion blur or it could be the first time i’ve seen some dodging that is not perfect. But both of these images seem right from the journals of Robert Frank with regards to narrative, image 5 most so…
Frame 7 – Lovely shot, this image is full of visual rhymes including the shapes of ‘U’ and the circular shaped bags and the verticals of the women’s legs, and again Angelo, the god of light is on your side with the sweep of lit pavement, it correlates exactly with the perspective of tiles. All of this graphical harmony forms a perfect crown and sets us up for a ‘where’s waldo’ sensation with the boy.. he’s the gem in the crown. Great Image Angelo, being really picky, if you’re going to dodge and burn as extensively as you have and so masterfully,… purely in my opinion, i would have dodged a bit more of the older women’s face, i feel you let it clip far to fast into shadows and i suspect a more readable expression would be more beneficial for the strength of the entire image, let’s face it, it’s the two faces in this image that are in control here, the rest is just yummy folds of graphical fun… again that’s being really picky Angelo, and i’ve thought about the benefit of ambiguity before i offer this very personal sentiment.
Frame 8 – in my opinion this is the first abuse of dodging Angelo, it disobeys the behaviour of light…. and i want to like this image, and i even want to say it’s Divine Intervention that i’m supposed to be feeling here, but i can’t, i ‘personally’ feel this image is over-worked dodging and burning, at least for me, thinking hard about what might correct this image would be to relax the spotlight circular feel of the dodge and let a unburn the area that would unwind from the circle and go up the stairs, for me the ‘stair to where’.. is the second important feature in this image from the point of narrative, after that it’s just a picture of a ‘scene’ again, this is just my personal opinion Angelo.
Frame 9 – I see what your doing here Angelo, but it doesn’t work for me, i wouldn’t have clipped her in shadows to such an extent, sorry i can’t back this up better, but graphically this is amazing, but the clipping of the women to that extent in shadows, well it doesn’t sit well with me, it dissolves some of the human gravity for me even if that’s exactly what you captured.. again, i’ve thought about ambiguity here, but sorry it doesn’t work for me, very harsh i know.
Frame 10, necessary filler.
Frame 11 shows you just how strong Frame 6 is, yes frame 11 is good shot, but the pull of opposite forces in frame 6 makes a great shot like this look weaker. I like it, it’s valuable, but the relationship of the two crosses and the catching up girl make this ‘just’ a great image for me ;-)
Frame 12 – i don’t like it, i can’t get past the processing on this one and that just makes me think of other things i don’t like about it, for example, the subject matter ‘moving out into the distance’ theme, i’d like to have some visual queues of destination with this theme, i just feel like there’s a wall up ahead and they will then need to turn around and come back, sorry, again harsh Angelo, but this is just how i feel, it’s not even an opinion of good or bad… just what i think when i look at it Angelo, but this one jars my own personal illusion a bit for this essay.
Frame 13 – i’m right back in my spiritual trance again Angelo. Surgical Dodging There! Bravo.
Frame 14 – what a great idea for a shot and processing is great, there’s an unnerving sense of dis-balance caused by the bottom right side of the frame, i think the unnerving feel is exactly what makes this shot grow on me for this essay.
Frame 15 – this is too much of a visual joke for me Angelo, it’s the bane of street photography in my opinion and seems to be too much a celebration of itself. this couldn’t be more of a personal opinion and if you haven’t seen loads of it, you will love this shot, but i have and my feelings are jaded because of it. not a criticism, just feedback from me.
Frame 16, 17, 18 – Gems… nothing left to say.
Frame 19 – Great, and in a lesser body of work a trophy, it doesn’t live up to the rest of the images for me, sorry, just me, i’m sure.
Frame 20, 21, 22 – Nice, but not your best, but likely very necessary for the essay
Frame 23 – Angelo, you could build a career off that frame alone, this has competition prize winner all over it and if you ever make Magnum this will surely be in your top 30. How on earth did you get that devilish beard in there!!
Frame 24 – Nope, nothing at all for me to like, sorry, maybe others will love it.
Frame 25, 26, 27- like i’ve said already, good, probably necessary, i wouldn’t be so harsh to call them filler, but not your best in my opinion.
Frame 28 – I want this print!!! Nuf Said!
Frame 29 and Frame 30, perfect images to wind down the essay. should you have shut down the essay at frame 30 instead of 31 is the question i’m struggling with right now Angelo? having watched this now more than a dozen times and because i’m more of a photographer than a spectator, I say…yes.. why?….. well frame 31 is just too over processed for me, i like it, but i think, purely in my opinion, you might have gone too far and not bent light, but betrayed it.
that’s the micro view,… at a macro level this is more than a success. it makes me happy to think that Burn is doing exactly what it said it was going to do,… provide a place that emerging photographers can display their work and we can sit around the campfire and talk about it, and we wouldn’t see it if Burn wasn’t here.
Have seen three dynamically different offerings, it makes me wonder if some of the visitors to Burn will join in when they see something more in their taste, or if they will only join in when thier powers can be used for evil, or worse purely to mentally spar with the David about the credibility of an opinion or the subtle difference between paranoia and fear, or other things that don’t relate at all to photography, I guess we shall see.
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DAVID.
The use of the word “staff” was meant to be humorous. :))
Believe me, I know what hard work you and Anton are doing here and as I said under Welcome…the site is far beyond anything I ever imagined. The evolution from road trips to burn is incredible.
No hurry to make any changes or additions…all is fine as is.
The weather has finally warmed up here in NM. Hopefully you are having the same in Colorado.
Happy 2009!