Light & Dark, Photography Now, Pacific Art League, 227 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 650-321-3891, May 3 - 30, 2013
2013 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709, 510-843-2527, May 10 - June 9, 2013
Several of my photographs areavailable through the RayKo Photo Center Marketplace at 428 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 415-495-3773.I encourage you to stop by and see all of the work available there. There are always wonderful exhibitions in RayKo's galleries, too.
At a photographic workshop years ago, the instructor encouraged students to “fall through the lens.” Although I’m sorry to say that I no longer recall which instructor said that, or what else happened at that workshop, I’ve carried those words with me.
Falling through the lens (or the pinhole) means allowing myself to be drawn to or moved by what I see, to experience its emotional and symbolic significance for me in that moment (even if that content isn’t readily accessible verbally), to become absorbed in the process of making a photograph – a silent interaction between me and the subject, whether the subject is a landscape, a tree, a river, or a rock. To fall though the lens means to set aside thinking and control, for the most part.
I hope that my photographs will convey experience as it’s lived subjectively, especially in the dreamlike moments that we may not always notice as we go about our lives.
All of the photographs on this site are protected by copyright and may not be used in any way, for any reason, without my specific written permission.
Now THAT's a film border. And the image is pretty cool, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Jim! Occasionally I'm glad that I'm not so handy with a utility knife :-)
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