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Visions of virginal purity (2)
The beautiful Okains Bay on beautiful Banks Peninsula of New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. Sit down, drink in, close your eyes, dream. Photo of the week: Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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Visions of virginal purity (1)
Wide vistas of an immense, deserted beach. But then, in the far distance, we descry three tiny dark specks, people smaller than sand fleas, blown off by the wind. Farewell at Farewell Spit. Photo of the week: Farewell Spit, North shore, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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Waves, reined …
in rock by an ongoing play of sun, rain and wind in sand by the wind, and soon again gone with the wind in cement by an artist dreaming of capturing a fleeting moment in emulsion by light falling on a gelatine silver coated film Photo of the week: Rainbow Valley, Central Australia 2013
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The sheltering tree
Mozambique 1993, breathing more freely again after many years of devastating conflict and war. A tree. Branches and foliage spreading in a grand circle up around the trunk. In its shelter underneath some hundred women assembled, with children and a few men. There is a spirit of calm, of peace, of community about the place.…
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A roof of dense foliage
Without the supporting poles this living monument would soon collapse under its own weight. A tree with crutches, not to walk with but to remain standing. Excrescence or labour of love – impressive it is. Photo of the week: Nagamachi samurai district, Kanazawa, Japan 2008
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The woman in the trees
A sound was echoing through the forest but I couldn’t make out where it came from. Then, all of a sudden, I saw a nymph moving high up in the oak trees. Surprised I called out: “What are you doing there?” She gave me a big smile and shouted back: “Je fais une chose tout…
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Ensemble of limbs
Looking at the legs in unison in last week’s post I remembered this photo that I took once in a shopping mall in Sydney. Then too it had been the configuration of limbs that had incited me to take out my camera. The people spread out in the circle, on the chairs and sofas at the floor…
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Legs in unison
Legs in unison The central image in the picture is one of 196 photos, fit in wooden screens, that together formed the installation by Dayanita Singh at the Kochi Biennale 2014. The Exhibition Guide says that the installation “is a year’s work presented as a series of interconnected movements in life and thought (…)”. For the viewer…
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Nostalgic bricks
It is amazing that precisely the work of one of the youngest participants of the Kochi Biennale 2014 evokes memories, images and emotions in me of the Kerala that I know of 40 years ago. Unnikrishnan C, born in 1991 in a family of basket weavers in Kerala, started painting the bricks of his parental…
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Through the looking glass
Up close: Light-rimmed, dark faces, all similar, each one different. Made by the artist out of paper pulp, rice paper, acrylic and art powder colour. With their wide open mouths they look startled, scared; but – according to the Exhibition Guide – they are initiates singing at their first holy communion. Two steps back: From…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 