Here we go with the new format of More With Less Issue. Each time 3 images commented by the photographer. Shutter Blues is an amateur landscape photographer based in France. He studied analog photography in the nineties, developing and printing in a collective lab, before switching to digital. Proud of his past experience, useful as it’s learning to draw for a painter. Now he is running a blog «because sharing is going to make me/us improve. It’s the new collective lab.»
«The Pond is an extraordinarily trivial place: the polluted magical wild next door. In this picture, the position and the state of the abandonned back seat invite us to contemplate the landscape as well as it disturbs it. A frustrating guilty beauty.»
«In The Velvet Undergrowth series, plants are characters: the photographs are more portraits than landscapes. In this picture, pale yellow leaves got dragged out of their field towards the road, but couldn’t reach it. Half successful escape: we go from yellow to grey, from the origins to the unknwon, and get stuck in the middle, the green diagonal.»
«This fish is the only living thing in the Very Sleepy Rivers series. It is the Hero. I found him wounded by a bird, bleeding, unable to swim back to deeper waters. I took his picture. Thanks to him, my landscape series became a tragedy: the story of the dying fish. He decided for me.»
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