A late afternoon lit photograph near the Turin train station.
As I’ve worked through these Italian images, I’ve gained a little more
insight into the relationship between my photographs of walls and
streets and my photographs of objects of concern. All of the urban or
nature fragment photographs are exercises in capturing form, composition
and, generally, color. Since the image is composed from the objects at
hand, I can generally create photographs wherever I happen to be at the
time.
When I’m travelling and capturing a place, the subject is more
important, but the formal approach to form and color is just the same as
my more banal studies.
It’s an interesting tension in that the formal compositions have little
interest from subject matter- they could be captured anywhere, but the
travel photographs tend to be dominated more by the scene and the
subject interest.
I hope that there’s an underlying united vision.
