Early on in my photography, influenced I think by abstract expressionism, I tried hard to create formal compositions that were themselves the subject. At some point I decided that this lack of a “subject” was limiting the images and I began more consciously to create an image a subject.
As I’ve been working through Vincent Versace’s “Welcome to Oz” and thinking more in terms of light and modeling, I hope I can move into something more dynamic and worthy of a more than a quick look.
This morning I was looking over my son’s shoulder at the illustrations in a story book and noting the multiple centers of interest that the illustrator had created in telling a story in a single image.