Topic 1: MIRRORS AND WINDOWS
Topic 1: MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: Reflection In most recent years, my family has been the main subject of my photos. Images which have been largely curated for a ‘window’ into the past ready for a future moment of reminiscing. Yet the very fact of curation suggests an element of mirror rather than window. Super Fox and Super Koal Roman Forum Takeover, April 2022 How much do family images means beyond the family? This clumsy portrait of my boys is my favourite photograph so far this year. It has nothing to do with its aesthetic quality but the fact that it preserves a moment in time which reflects an imaginary world that my children were living in. It isn’t a window into a moment of play. It is their own conscious reflection of their identity in their chosen poses; their desire to look strong, important and fierce. This photo was as much given as it was taken. Their choices were instrumental to its existence. It embodies the nature of photography as a two-way process. Haberstich ...
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