What is not to like about images? In their immediate digestibility - they have the effect of fast food, that dissolves on the tongue quickly, allowing you to move rapidly on to the next.

We are image addicts with the algorithm as our pusher. William.S. Burroughs wrote “Look at that picture. How does it seem to you now… Does it seem to be persisting?”

How many images do in fact persist? What is the act of making an image persist? Can you find it again or is it lost in the deluge of images? The one you saw recently that was interesting. Where is it now?

And who has the patience today to be with one image maker or camera user? I have been doing some reading on the subject of photography. Ideas about the camera interest me. Barthes & Vilém Flusser in particular offer insights that are intriguing: Barthes’s suggestion, for instance, that cameras, originally, were ‘clocks for seeing’ is fascinating. Or Flusser who suggested that: ”The camera is not a tool but a plaything, and a photographer is not a worker but a player… Yet photographers do not play with their plaything but against it. They creep into the camera in order to bring to light the tricks concealed within.”

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I thought I would come here and write clearly about the idea of photography and that is exactly when I met my match. My inner critic. So this has become about what stops me in general. From feeling like I am wasting your time. That is the last thing I want to do.

What do I have going on?

My next shoot is 12th June 2025. I will be using my usual set up of X Pro 2 & Mamiya 645J. It will be in a studio with a model named Kaya. I look forward to sharing the results. My next uploads will be when the lab is done developing. Rapid Eye in London is where I have been and instead of 2 days turnaround I chose 7! And I have a new film scanner, an Epson V850. More definition more sharpness coming very very soon.

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