Toronto wet streeters 2

Streeters for features

I've done some street shooting recently and hope to do more.  I'm exploring and trying to understand one significant school of modern photography.

There is an entire world of post-pop colour photography started by William Eggleston and continued by young people today.  It often features mundane subject matter, the colour is usually jarring, and the beauty of the picture comes to you slowly, like Avro Part music.  It can easily be confused with bad home photos or bad tourist shots, but it runs deeper.

I've been familiar with this genre for decades, but never really got it, hence the effort to undersatand by doing.  Here are a few attempts.

 

Abstract wanderings....part 3

A few more colour designs.....

Abstract wanderings....part 2

Apart from a brief student stint as truck driver and waiter before I graduated from university, I have made my living entirely by writing and photography. I had a rather brilliant teacher who was also my boss.  He told me that there were no dull people, only dull writers.

That idea landed on me like a clattering epiphany.  I was already an existentialist of sorts (you are what you do.)  It was down to me to find the meaning of things.  

When I returned from Europe earlier this month, I was complaining about dull subjects when I remembered: There are no dull subjects, only dull photographers.