Tag: People
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Bird’s-eye view (2)
Bird’s-eye view (2) Both of these pretty ladies have chosen to dress in black, which stands in stark contrast to their fair skin. One is sitting relaxed on the kerb. The coffee cup beside her suggests she works in the gallery behind her and has stepped out for a breath of fresh air. The other…
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Bird’s-eye view (1)
Bird’s-eye view (1) As you can see, I was particularly interested in the black-and-white pattern of the floor in this courtyard. It consists of small round stones, a kind of simple mosaic that you can see in some places in Greece. This particular courtyard is located in the Panormitis Monastery on the island of Symi.…
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Sympathy
Sympathy A girl is photographing tiny red flowers against a backdrop of green leaves. Beautiful flowers. Beautiful girl. Her attentive gaze perceives colour, life and beauty in a minuscule detail of nature. Her gesture betrays a modest, sensitive spirit. And me? I see the outstretched arm, take in the whole scene at a glance and…
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Coincidence
Coincidence I walk under an archway, towards a square, and see a tree. The archway frames the tree beautifully. A woman crosses the square and something I cannot see catches her eye. She slows her pace, stops and takes a photo. My gaze, the woman, the tree: three points on a straight line. And I,…
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ENOIKIAZETAI
ENOIKIAZETAI In the spring of 2013 I happened to stay for a day or two in Livadia, a medium-sized town in Greece, in the vicinity of Mount Parnassos. I had time to explore the city and it struck me that the cafes and terraces were teeming with people, young and old. “They don’t let themselves…
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Mirror images
Mirror images A mirror not only confronts us with ourselves, but can also reflect objects from a part of the room or space around us that would otherwise be invisible from our vantage point. Or it can reflect a side of an object that we would not be able to see without a mirror. In…
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The time trail
The time trail At the start of this millennium, the Swiss city of Neuchâtel created a trail through time in the nearby woods – Le Sentier du Temps. The starting point was intended to mark the formation of our planet Earth, and the end point our present day. Each one-metre step represented one million years,…
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Landscape with horseman
Landscape with horseman What makes a landscape photograph potentially interesting? I’m not sure if we can speak of a general rule, but by paying extra attention, when composing the photograph, to objects that are not directly related to the landscape itself but are nonetheless part of it, the image can take on additional meaning and…
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New life, new hope
New life, new hope What does the boy in the photograph see, what does he feel, and what associations does the image of the woman evoke in him? His apparently intense gaze and the way he is holding the woman by the arm suggest that she reminds him of his mother or another close relative.…
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Cambodia, and the trauma of a nation
Cambodia, and the trauma of a nation With the defeat of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge by the Vietnamese in 1979, the survivors of four years of terror were gradually able to rebuild their lives. As a quarter of the population had perished, almost every family had lost several loved ones. Some people were…
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