It has been a bit quiet on this website for a while. I appologize for this.
I took a step back from all my different photography approaches and ideas to work on film for a while – to be precise I am writing a handbook on storyboarding, something that has been on my mind for a while. I am not sure how many know that I come from the film corner – concept art, to be precise. I also come from the arts – mainly drawing. And like physicists are since forever trying to find the world formula that joins micro and macro, I am since forever trying to join my worlds too. Every now and then lightning strikes and I think I might have found a way. But up to now this has not been the case. I always had to go back to work on fragments.
Last fall I decided to step back for a while, stop reading blogs and articles about photography, disentangle myself from a world that seems to rush along in ever increasing speed. That world does not reflect me. At least not this part of me. I decided to go for longer walks with my dog, and I decided to only take my iPhone as a camera. The aim was not to make “cool hypstamatic” images, but to limit myself.
It washed away the excess. It is pure Zen and allowes me to breathe again.
It also gave me an idea – no lightning this time, just the shadow of a possibility.
When everything is lit, a shadow might be all that you need.
We will see about that.
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