'Just begin!' I said to myself.
So I headed to North Melbourne, a suburb with diverse architecture. I thought it
might be a good place to take some photographs to start my edge
adventure. My goal was to make a series of photographs that I could discuss
with the group. These are the images I shared last Friday.
A few days later, on the way to Womadelaide, I was reading the introduction to Rexer's The Edge of Vision. In discussing Gordon Matta-Clark's film Splitting, Rexer observed that 'Although divided only be a small gap, it is suddenly penetrated by light...light is unlocked, received and revealed...'. This gave me an idea - at Womadelaide, I would photograph light as it came through barriers and boundaries.
I also showed these images to Megan and Kristian last Friday.
So we looked at them and talked. The ideas I took away from the conversation were:
- aim for photographs that are not so specific
- reduce the amount of information
- think about flaws, gaps, the in-between
- try out film cameras e.g. Mamiya and Holga
- consider taking double exposures with 1/2 to 3/4 exposure for each shot
- check out Harry Callahan
- if I'm searching for an ephemeral feel then choose a method that suits.
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