I try to keep my photographic work simple. Just as Hemingway wrote in a spare and distilled way, he left the imagination to the audience. Today a lot of images have become too complicated and dressed up, with colour, filter and technique that is often the instant process of a computer, rather than the observers eyes.
I prefer black and white because it strips away so much unnecessary information and leaves the viewer with a distilled visual narrative. It becomes less about me the photographer and more about what is seen, and some times the questions of the unseen. Just as Hemingway wouldn't waste pages and the readers time on descriptions of pretty sunsets, in black and white you can't really see them anyway.
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Sharon
9/3/2014 02:31:02 am
Well said! Looking forward to seeing more of your work! Website is great!
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Vaughan James
9/8/2014 10:43:38 pm
Thanks it is always n ongoing process of improvement
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CategoriesAuthorVaughan James is a photographer and writer based in Zurich Switzerland |