It occurs to me that I’m going to have to come up with a better name for this work. There’s a feeling at the heart of it, about being lost, coming unmoored. It’s a thread that’s run through my work since I did “the world doesn’t make any sense”:http://bit.ly/1fiShkO work. That book was also where I learned the hard way to hate gutter bleeds. The PDF is ok if you view it with two pages together though. Back to what I was saying though: I look at those pictures today and I see how far I’ve come, and yet I’m still pretty much just groping around in the dark. Why are you reading confused and confusing shit on the internet? Go outside and take some pictures. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/more_signs_work/456/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/more_signs_work/456/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/more_signs_work/456/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/more_signs_work/456/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/more_signs_work/456/0005.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-03-10T06:18:26Z GMT
Everybody always goes on and on about golden hour light, where the sun gives everything a glow that is supposedly the best light. So much so that some photographers don’t even take pictures except during the two hours around sunrise and sunset. Bullshit I say. Of course, I’m saying this with a camera that holds detail for something like 11 or 12 stops in a decent ISO. It’s as good as negative film ever was, and that’s saying something. It’s exposed differently, but there’s incredible tonal range available. One of the reasons earlier street photographers shot in black and white is that it offered the ability to handle these super contrasty situations. The signs project, which I don’t think any of these go with (save the middle one), is sort of becoming about playing with ambiguity of evidence. So, a sharp clear photo that could be any number of events, interpreted any number of ways. I’m trying to wrap my head around the idea. Signs may tell you something, but how can you believe it? Why do you think the person who put it there isn’t just as lost as you? How do you know someone in the equation (the signmaker, the photographer, the people in the photo) aren’t actively working to deceive you? It’s still at the stage that there are more questions than answers, which is really fun for me. The not-fun part is not having a camera, not knowing when I will again, etc. Oh well. At least it gives me time to work on the backlog. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/noon_light_deserves_love_too/457/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/noon_light_deserves_love_too/457/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/noon_light_deserves_love_too/457/0003.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-03-07T07:13:37Z GMT
For some reason, I don’t have any of evryone else who was there that night in the edit. Probably because Merchnats is a dark hole of a bar, a place you’re likely to find trouble if you go looking for it. Since I don’t tend to do that, it was a pretty friendly neighborhood bar. Of course, now that I’m in a different neighborhood, I’ll have to find my pints of friendliness elsewhere. It was the darkness, anyway, that caused the trouble; hard to focus, and hard to get non-blurry shots. Anyway, a real post with more than one photo coming soon. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/simon_inside_merchant’s/458/0002.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-03-07T06:38:22Z GMT
Can’t stop won’t stop forgot how to stop <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/two_runners/459/0001.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-03-05T06:55:58Z GMT
Despite the fact that I know that it’s all been done, that they’re all trite contrivances doomed to failure, I still find myself making photos out walking in the street. I suppose that’s a sign I’m doing something right? <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/from_the_streets,_yo/460/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/from_the_streets,_yo/460/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/from_the_streets,_yo/460/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/from_the_streets,_yo/460/0004.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2014-03-04T06:06:14Z GMT
