The brief was to imagine a concept for a store selling ceramics, simple clothing and selected teas. This was the first day of exploration of the premises, to serve as inspiration for stories representing the business. Those stories to follow.
dancers
sari drying
Back to the Ganges, and lines and triangles and circles and saris. A woman gives orders to someone off-scene while she holds out a sari to dry in the fierce mid-morning sun along the River Ganges in mid Feb 2013. Shot on a faulty Leica M4 with a 50mm Collapsible Summicron for which the […]
visual record of seeing in the process of seeing
The two pictures in this post were, again, taken on the trip to Varanasi, India. Both are scenes from along the banks of the River Ganges. Although the trip was actually part of a journalism project, for which the photos needed to be content driven, the two photos here are of a different kind, taken […]
adding colours
There are many reasons why I choose to stick to black and white photography, among them the abstraction of the image, the connection to the history of photography, and the fact that I just like the aesthetic. Another, more prosaic, reason is the fact that I am by now very familiar with the process — […]
temple door
I’m finding these temple festivals increasingly difficult to find the enthusiasm to go to. The interest nowadays is purely photographic, and I don’t even lift the camera to my eye anymore unless the idea is new or, if it is similar to something I have already captured, an improvement on what I already have, or […]
toners
Started looking at toners. It’s complicated. Here we have sepia and copper. The sepia was added first (thiocarbamide), selectively. Sepia, I discovered, will prevent the copper taking. While the sepia only tones the silver in the image, the copper tones the whole paper except, in this case, where the sepia had been applied. I left […]