A sticker on a Kingston utility box leads me back to Shepard Fairey’s Andre the Giant Has a Posse and nearly four decades of bootlegs, remixes and visual culture.
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Time, Photographed
Long exposure photography is more than a slow shutter speed. Through photographs made in Paris, London, Montréal, Lake Ontario, and Kingston, this essay explores how time, movement and perception can transform a scene, from light trails and softened water to ghosted crowds and abstraction.
True Stray: Specimen B/13•B/21
A field note informed by Julian Montague’s taxonomy of stray shopping carts. An overturned cart at the river’s edge is examined as a Class B True Stray, shaped first by human intervention and later by water, ice, and time.
Windows and Mirrors
What is the nature of photography? One analogy, proposed by John Szarkowski, is that a photograph could be seen either as a mirror or as a window. In the first instance, such as with a self-portrait, it’s an expression of the photographer’s self. In the latter, such as a crime scene evidence photo, a photographContinue reading “Windows and Mirrors”
