Do verbal cliches translate into photographic ones? A pig’s ear, the cat’s whiskers… perhaps not.
A bit like the challenge of Roy Walker’s Catchphrase, it’s never so easy to convert the visual into the verbal.
Say what you see? A past philosophy tutor once told me that a picture can’t paint a thousand words - because different […]
It’s pretty hard to photograph poor people, especially when you don’t speak the language. And can’t make the kind of connection you want. To this end I’ve failed in the past - having started a project on Serbia’s Roma. I stopped fairly soon.
The above, however, are pretty close to what I’d want to do now. […]
Blood on your hands. Geddit?
It astounds me quite how often I’m given to snapping cliches. They usually don’t make the edit, but in trying not to be too judgmental about the slaughter of a pig, the above is useful as a kind of questioning comment.
But I don’t know whether it works, really.
Who wants to read yet another quote about photography? No? Perhaps like me you’re a bit bored with people trying to define the subject, particularly on Flickr: it’s a dance, a bunch of lies, something that can’t but tell the truth, a stolen moment, the art of selection etc etc.
Well, here are some quotes instead […]
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