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“Fortunately, we live on the basis of a vital illusion, on the basis of absence, an unreality, a non-immediacy of things. Fortunately, nothing is instantaneous, simultaneous or contemporary. Fortunately, nothing is present or identical to itself. Fortunately, reality does not take place.”
Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime, 1996.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Walk this way

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I take many different types of photographs which often have to conform to a set criteria, but on occasion, I stumble across moments that are easily overlooked. Random encounters that only a split second of light passing through a shutter can reveal. This has nothing to do with photographic truth or the defining moment. It is little more than a recording of my desire to press the shutter and freeze time. These scenes are no more, yet the pictures remain, an illusion, markers in time.
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