Here we go with the new format of More With Less Issue. Each time 3 images commented by the photographer. Thank you all. (Steve)
«A big influence on me is pre-modern European landscape painting ,a genre that focused specifically on human interaction within an environment. Many of those artists, Claude Lorrain and Giuseppe Zais to name a couple, made pictures that carry with them a degree of romanticism and sublimity. I was thinking of those kinds of pictures when I approached this scene. The man on the bridge represents a Christ-like figure, and in this spectacle a mass of people stand on the bridge watch and take pictures of him. The child at the bottom of the frame looks up in wonder, and the lovers sit on the rock, unaware of everything but themselves. In a lot of my work I try to ascertain a type of myth of the everyday. Of all my photos to this point, this narrative expresses that the best.»
«During my time in Europe my goal was to experiment a great deal with the way I approached subjects and the way that looked at the world in general. In this photo the human elements are regarded as an after-thought, and the main focus falls on the banal greenery that overlooks the shoreline. When I look at it, and it may sound strange, I see it as something that’s almost empowering. If I wanted to personify the tree I would say that I gave it a voice, or rather heard its voice. At the risk of seeming overly romantic, I would say this is among my more poetic pieces.»
«What drew me to this scene was the quality of light, the softness and warmth of it. I think its among my most structurally sound pieces, in regards to the composition. There’s a sense of isolation that I saw in that woman, but not in a sad sense. It seems to me that there’s a rapport between her and this place that she occupies, like a communion that you just feel sometimes when you are in a place where time seems irrelevant.»
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