and too many of us have become accustomed to that way of thinking that we sometimes forget about the lines in-between and the things that exist outside the borders. we forget about: pause, maybe, grey, potential energy, individuality, gender nonspecific, medium, indifferent, bland, etc. etc. etc.
and the same exists in photography it seems. people can view a work as either boring or exciting, new or redone, artistic or distasteful, creative or lackluster. but in-between those designations and reactions are individual responses to the work. i could never force someone to like or not like an image and i would never want to. the image is there for different people to experience it in different ways. as long as i am happy with the image, and as long as the person being photographed is happy with the image ... that is my personal concern first and foremost.
so here i present a series of couplets, featuring nathan, william, and raif. they are setup as binary sets - one "standard" image and one that reveals the body. each of the couplet images contains a considerable amount of time passing during the shoot between their captures. the limited space we see physically separating the images represents something the eyes cannot see - the change that occurs in character, personality, expression, and mood when someone is comfortable enough to allow the body to be photographed. so the two images you see here represent more than a binary presentation of visual objects, and it's something to think about when you see such a set from photographers and other artists:
just a small musing for the day :)
thanks for reading and viewing,
- me
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