Bornholm

I just went on a short trip to Bornholm, Denmark.
It was the first time I've had in a long while to reconnect with photography and nature.
I came away wondering what a critical photography practice of mine would look like...

Critical - i.e. that problematises, that raises questions, that delimits (as I understand it).

And, after reading Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (ed. Alliez and Osborne), I am re-reminded of the importance of history and materialism, and am wondering how it would be possible to reconcile image making (photography) with this aim.

Here's an assortment of images that are doing different things, but I wouldn't say they were critical. That's the problem, and I suspect the only way such a thing might be possible would be through some heterogeneous element(s).

Tree Nipples

 

Madron 28.11.12

It's been a while...

language is annoying me. instead, ambivalence and complexity.... de-connecting the standard meanings of things...

these are from september

Docklands

Yesterday I went on an excursion to London's Docklands.


Thames and ancient sewer brickwork:




Thames and the disturbance from a passing boat:




Quite different from Crete's Sea

Bodmin Started

Blandness Transformed

Well, there are different ways of feeling down. I have been struggling a bit lately overcoming a stress-induced dead effect, being weighed down and with it not feeling inspiration or confidence about sharing. See-saw see-saw see-saw....

This photo I think is technically poor, but what I wanted to get at was the texture and blandness-transformed-into-something...



...and a sneaky pigeon...

And More Pigeons

Yes I may be pushing up against the line between absurdity and boredom, but I am still very much in love with pigeons. It could be a little harmless anthropomorphism, it could be an attraction to their purely instinctual being. They seem to embody 'flow'. In groups their spacial awareness causes them to make evenly balanced patterns best seen from above.

And finding the odd squashed one on the road still affects me.

Summer Afternoon

Up To Date

Been a little distracted by life, summer, friends, Twitter, the bar. Here's some pics:

More Fishes

Fishes from the harbour today. Water a little murky. Tunes just perfect.

A Treat

Some Van Gogh for us as I tired myself out reading Introduction to Phenomenology well into the night. Really enjoyed Gadamer's optimism and Arendt might be a new hero of mine... (what a photo on that link!).

Aesthetics Making

Aesthetics making belief,
love in at number 14, below beasts,
order
and,
sense.