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Admittedly, many of these photos are rather poor. Since I took these on a casio compact over a couple of days for a slideshow that I gave to friends, it's not about a professional product. More an amateurs delight in noting something touching. Yes, I found the images rather emotive, capturing something vulnerable about people. Occasionally I maybe sarcastic, perhaps I wouldn't like most of these people if I talked to them. But for a faction of a second, an image is made and personally speaking, something fragile is found. Obviously I'm being rather subjective here, about taking photos behind someone's back. In the slideshow I used a popular 'classical' track by Gorecki, used in a BBC show about Auschwitz. Perhaps it's me and my constant thoughts of death (no, not a Goth), but the images are memento mori, faceless people walking through time. Ugh, my years of art school and navel gazing, perhaps I should let the numerous images speak for themselves. (On a personal level, I cried at the end of Midnight Cowboy and yes, I'll ask my GP for some Prozac). I didn't mean to come over so sentimental, hopefully that's just me and not the photographs. To others this is just a novelty set of photos, like collections of Pylon photographs. Yes it's a novelty, but one I hope warms someone day, while they spend an idle half hour, drinking coffee, flicking through the internet. Am I being sentimental again? I should go out, get some more photos and try a little harder. Sentimentality is a horrible thing, didn't someone say it was a condition of fascism or the seedbed of fascism or something similar? Maybe I should shut up now. Sentimentality is often the breeding ground of many a iLife slideshow DVD...
In case you didn't know, you're free to use the images for any non-profit function you want, as long as it doesn't endorse any political or religious agenda (you know what I mean, nothing that goes against the principles of human rights or used by any group that actively wishes to deny the rights of any race, gender or sexuality. How or why you would is a little beyond me... but just in case.. Think of me as a secular humanist and act in my best interests please!) If you strangely wish to use the images in a profit making enterprise, leave me a message, perhaps I'll agree and send you a copy of the images to use for your nefarious capitalist dreams...Then I'd expect at least a book or CD off my amazon wishlist.
I hope I haven't ruined any enjoyment of the photos by this writing, I may remove it at some stage. Writing about a visual experience often seems to kill it dead and project the writers belie.... I'm being 'art-school' again, yes? Sorry...
PS. I do like this image above, perhaps it needs a lttle cropping, but I think that black velvet jacket needs a little space to breathe. I imagine the baseball-cap guy thinks velvet-jacket man is a bit arty-farty...but who's the guy that colour co-ordinated every item of clothing? Who spent that extra minute in front of the mirror? Or perhaps, baseball-cap guy is wondering if velvet would suit him, or remembering when he had luxuriant hair...
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