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Originally uploaded by blind sam.

I've added extra images to the lives in representation series (here) and moved others here which were already present.

The body of work is starting to shape itself as a concern for a certain sort of high contrast 'concrete' light becomes one of the formal qualities, and a colour temperature has become a little more balance but still on the warm side. Mortality seems to become more of an element in it too, but I'm not sure about that yet.

The composition and attitude is, in part, me trying to reconcile myself with Walker Evan's more literary understanding of photography, but was also chosen to reflect that form of documentary where the photographic voice willfully constructs the scene with a historical scope in mind and, to quote the painter Victor Willing, it is created with "the thought... made in the mouth".

This may not seem that interesting but it is a radically different way of not only understanding how a photograph should be taken but also of how we perceive and understand ourselves and our world. Rather than the conscious eye delimiting and knowing what is happening at the moment of the photograph - a form of apollonian image making - the photograph and photographer and the world are brought together coercively to describe an the spirit of a place, in its time, with photographer's feet planted in its earth. The photographer is relying upon their relationship to their 'unknowing' selves and the world, and that the photograph will open a space describing a totality that will, in a form of poetic kenning, relate the metaphors of the situation. (*Doff's hat to aesop*).