It has been pointed out to me that I like doing things the hard way. It’s been like that right from the beginning with my photography. I didn’t want things to look like they should. I carried around a Hasselblad studio camera instead of a 35mm. I loaded custom-rolled, specially imported Kodak HIE-infrared stock 120 […]
beard
Johann had a beard and he wore it well. I knew he would cut it off in time, and I had to have it on film. I am increasingly interested in the process of making what I call composite photos, scrutinizing a specific scene and exploring the passage of time and/or shifting perspective through merging […]
japan I
These are selections from another search through old negatives. As always, this process is informative because of which photos I rejected previously, and the reasons for that rejection. Of these, I only chose the third last time (or at least a version of it). I am assuming this was because it had some human activity […]
dogcart
I call this photo “dogcart,” and I think it is perfect. The first things to mention about it is that it is not mine, I don’t know anything about where it is or who took it, and that it can never, ever be taken again. My assumptions are that it is taken with a large […]
duds
Yes, it’s a picture of the dogs. To be more exact, it is a very basic scan of a negative taken from a Minolta Autocord TLR from the 1960s. This was a test of a newly repaired and CLA’d camera, to make sure everything was working properly. I’m pleased to say the repairman has done […]
preparation dashed
The first photography trip to SE Asia showed me that the Nikon slr and zoom I had was inadequate. I hasten to add that the problem was the zoom I had, as many Nikon lenses are wonderful. I returned armed with a better system, though, and then some. A Hasselblad medium format camera with Kodak […]
on being shorn, and other animations
The researcher warned us to take everything told us by the Doms and their assistants with a grain of salt. They said that, as part of the cremation ritual at the Manikarnika Ghat, the chief mourner would have a complete shave before the proceedings could start. This man was having his full beard shorn in […]
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 — […]