Enjoy.

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More of the same, but slightly different.

Everyday fragments, on the point of becoming and pointing to something else. The thing itself and thing photographed are connected by a very thin thread anyway, much thinner then the initial glance makes it look. When Garry Winogrand said ‘I photograph to see how things look photographed’ I think he had something close to this in mind (for sure it wasn’t a cheap way to get out of ‘what does it all mean’ question he hated, and rightly so).

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This disconnection between the visual content and the meaning one can find in it is of course simple symbolism and metaphors, and is generic to all visual arts, not only photography. Yet it is in photography that the gap is felt in a strongest way, obviously because the image is a reflection of a fragment of reality in quite a ‘direct’ way.

It would be arrogant to say the new meaning is fully in the hands of the photographer – it obviously is not.  Critics and audiences like to make sense of things, and often expect the artist to be a ‘problem solver’ of some sort. You know, efficient thinker: issues tackled, theories formed, conclusions drawn. Academic thinking. Back to school kind of thing. True meaning of the therm ‘arrogant’.