Ping pong – displaying photographs in pairs.

Very different scenes, but somehow connected. In an obvious way, by a certain formal similarity – things hidden, obstructed, not truly visible. That is a very shallow connection though. I think it’s one of those cases when paring images together creates a flow of influence, a sort of mental ping pong, when the interesting bit happens not within the frames themselves, but in that virtual space between them. Not a new concept for sure. One that Frank explored deeply in ‘The Americans’ – in fact, there was a similar couple of images there – a covered car on the left, and covered dead bodies – car accident victims – on the right. A fairly brutal and simple connection one would think, but Frank made it work beautifully. I was quite aware of those two frames while shooting my two ones. I don’t think I ripping him off here, (no dead bodies ;) ) as the expression is very different, and hints follow a different route. Just paying my respects.