Flower still life in sun
still life photography
printed in color, minimum order size 60×40 cm
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Flower still life in shadow
still life photography
printed in color, minimum order size 60×40 cm
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By combining the various multi-exposure techniques to overcome these limitations you achieve an effect that many exhibition goers prompted to remark: that’s a painting! My colleague exhibitor, who had never seen this before, remarked that contemporary figurative painters who were, with their attention to details doing the exact opposite to what he was striving for, could not hope to produce anything approaching what my technique had achieved.
When I was in my teens a vehement discussion raged around us photography adepts as to whether or not what we were doing could be classified as an art. I had concluded that most of the time it isn’t. This conclusion is fortified when I see the hordes of spectators digging their telephones out of their pockets for snapping with machine-gun speed whatever is in their line of vision.
But the question of how what we do is different from what figurative painters have always done has been with me from those early days.