March 2011
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WatchImages © Julian Lass 2011
Hackney Canal
Concreted, steel-framed blocks along Hackney canal are minimalist cubicles, seeped in dusking March light, stepped racks, empty scaffolds. Shivering plants cling to crumbling walls, crowd-tamed black coots line the grassed verge, oblivious to heavy footfall. By the time I slow down, going west, at the building site past Kingsland Road that has upended a...
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Sebald and photography
(paraphrasing Sebald)
On Approach
Photography should have a ghostlike presence in it somewhere, something omniscient. It makes it a different reality.
Photography is about discovering things hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no point to the process.
By all means be experimental, but let the viewer be part of the experiment.
Photograph obscure things but don’t photograph obscurely.
There is...