„This idea that everything has been done is a sign of the limitations of our own imaginations.“ Colin Pantall (via Conscientious)
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Anders Petersen
„Photography is not really about photography. It is about longings and dreams, nightmares and wants and memories. … Without longing no picture at all.“
Video interview with Anders Petersen
Swedish photographer Anders Petersen talks about his practice. Recently he has been working in London’s Soho district as part of The Photographers Gallery’s Soho Projects.
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How do you edit your work?
„I deconstruct them in different ways. I deconstruct them as a whole and I deconstruct them as parts. Imagine you have three variations of one picture. Sometimes, the first thing I do is that I look at them upside-down. And if it looks balanced, it seems to work. So in a way you look at pictures on an abstract level. I have four or five variations turned upside-down and at that point I can already tell which one works best. Sometimes you have two or even three left. Then you deconstruct them on a personal level. You think: “Well, this one bothers me!” or “this one annoys me!” because one person draws too much attention and then I skip this one out. And finally one is left. So it is a kind of two-ways-decomposing – on a total abstract level and on a personal, concrete level.“
Raimond Wouda, go to Rocketscience for the full interview by Andreas Till.
Editing
I finished the rough edit of my Korea pictures in Lightroom (I only give 2 stars max at this stage) and printed a stack of about 60 A5-sized workprints. It’s funny how an image can change once you see it as a physical object rather than on the screen – some miraculously turn into an immediate winner, while others just go down. Then I divided them into two stacks – As and Bs. I go through the stacks at least twice a day. First thing in the morning works best for me when you react intuitively and don’t cling so much to your babies. Each day more pictures go from the A to the B stack, only sometimes a B makes it back to A. At the same time I am looking for an entry point and a finishing point for the series, so far I have several candidates for both.
Maybe this time around I have enough material for a small POD (print on demand) book.