Thank you!
Any chance to read some of your thoughts?
Well, I can't guarantee any of it will be organized or useful, but...
You love tone and texture, the way they interact, and the way the camera renders them, and seem to shoot for joy of revealing this. Is this a revelation, or can it be a limitation in that it tends ultimately towards personal introspection rather than communication? Or is it both? Does knowing how much time you spend on this affect the way I view it?
Your work is intensely personal, visual note-taking at its finest. It's not a narrative but lives on the edge of narrative, deliberately looking at/granting significance to that which wouldn't often be considered significant.
Although you have some particular images that are striking, I think the work is much more coherent seen as a whole, and the temporal aspect is important. The whole thing is a very photographic catalog. You remind us that the images are self-consciously photographs, objects in and of themselves (or are they, being digitally presented?), through your method of presentation and filing on the blog; I can't consider the referent of the photo without considering the photo itself and where it sits in time and organization as an image among the other images you make. The indexical potential of photography is inescapably encoded into the work's presentation but is merged with the potentialities and conventions of the Internet.
I'd like to try the long-duration stand development you're using, and will give it a go. Sounds convenient and seems like you're getting good results even without use of a light meter.
Maybe I should stop moving to bigger formats and just carry my old Olympus XA around again. But I just got my large format setup running again.
There's something to be said for volume of images and experimentation over laborious slow and predictable work.
and so on and so on.
Again, thanks for sharing the blog and your great work.
