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SEEING THINGS

2008.03.09




















I've Been Riding With The Ghost

In February 2008, I have completed the MFA in Documentary Photography in the University of Wales, Newport. Photographs are from my book -> Seeing Things.

Seeing Things addresses issues on both a socio-cultural and photographic level. Firstly, it references the work I was occupied with from November 2006 – November 2007, on the largely overlooked social problem of poverty in modern Ireland. Secondly, it questions the nature of photographic seeing. Are photographers, as Badger says standing back and taking the wider view which separates them both physically and psychologically from their subjects ‘like the gods gazing down on the earth with Olympian dispassion’ (Parr & Badger, 2006, p. 263); or are they hiding with their presented vision, the hurt that they experience in the process? Does this predicament to get taken by the visual beauty of the scene in front of them – even a very upsetting one - override what is essential to one’s mental health – the optimism of memory? Are photographers tricked by beauty? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
16 Comments
vitzeq Great, amazing, brilliant, genial captures!!!
vitzeq · 2008-03-12: 22:14
dadlak great vision and variety!
dadlak · 2008-03-13: 15:08
Emma Cool series of shots.
Emma · 2008-03-14: 02:57
Madoc It is hard for me to express what it is (especially since I'm not really at ease with English), but these pics, and many others from some of your other sets, captivate me as if I was there. It really feels like I am seeing these things for real. Is it the color tones, the moments that you chose to capture that are striking with truth? Is it the sadness all around that reaches me so deep? Hard to tell...
What I know is that you've got a wonderful and rare talent of reaching people's soul through your photography and for that I think I am now addicted to your blog.
Madoc · 2008-03-15: 16:00
Pikapol beautiful set!! so many good photos here!! color tone is great! particularly love #7 and #15.
Pikapol · 2008-03-15: 16:50
TWOZEES Love the shot of the hands on the purse. Makes we want to know who it is.
KZ
TWOZEES · 2008-03-16: 11:58
marikos Dragana, these are great, amazing and lovely pictures! I love # 5 and 7 and 10 and 11, and, and, and ...... they are all lovely. # 13 to my fav.
marikos · 2008-03-20: 11:09
chikamaka #7 is very good i like all of them
chikamaka · 2008-03-25: 03:56
turndaround Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I love the second one so much that I immediately put it in my favorites.
turndaround · 2008-08-12: 01:09
behindgreeneyes great! congratulations to your book!
behindgreeneyes · 2008-08-17: 08:06
Cabecilha :)
Cabecilha · 2008-08-18: 09:06
americo yeah!
americo · 2008-08-19: 09:04
empir your photos are awesome... some of them i have in favs...
empir · 2008-10-22: 21:26
makaid It is funny how things come full-circle. I favorited the one from your recent show bill.
makaid · 2008-11-20: 23:45
Widcat I tend to think photography is the ultimate act of interaction with reality...appreciating something so much that one makes the effort to capture and keep it, to elevate a moment, place, thing or person to a level of extreme importance. I also loved the hands. They look like mine.
Widcat · 2009-01-30: 10:41
patka-ledux super su ti fotke, imam filing sve te hladne ispraznosti... i odmah sam sretan u ovom zapecku svijeta sto rijecinu ima...i poneko sunce..
kad ce izlozba negdje blize da vidim ovo sve uzivo?
patka-ledux · 2009-02-03: 03:11
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