[my transcendentalist ‘self’]

landscape photography, Photography, Street photography










[my transcendentalist individuality is a mere fragment of the universal “self”…my personality is a fragment of the personality of Gods and Goddesses and the Universe]
[…I am at the same time the wings of a seagull that flies at the mercy of the strong wind that blows over a beautiful beach on a sunny afternoon when the storm approaches]
[…and I am the leaves of grass that spread in a green pasture on a day of clear sky and inclement sun after a night of torrential and warm summer rains]
[…and I am also the boys and girls who walk happily every morning on their smooth paths to school carrying their bags with their notebooks and their book and pencil and eraser, eager to learn more and more]
[…and I am the weary men stumbling back home after a hard day’s work to eat dinner, kiss their wife and sons and daughters and be glad to be alive and healthy and strong]
[no intention to deny what I was yesterday, what I am today, what I will be tomorrow]
[…who is to contest?]











			


	


			
				

			
				


	

		
		
{self-portraits?}

		
portraits, selfies
	


	

		

Why do we do so many self-portraits? Are we photographing who we are, who we were or who we want to be? Would these photographic images that we generate be, nothing more, and for one or several reasons, the specters of the people we were, who we are or who we will be one day be? Maybe self-portraits represent more ‘the other side of the coin’ or how authentic or inauthentic we are… how mutants we are… or how nomadic we are… how wanderers we were, are and will be?






			


	


			
				

			
				


	

		
	

	
		
“MAKE IT NEW”

		
landscape photography, New topographics, Photography
	


	

		

“MAKE IT NEW” (Ezra Pound – 1885–1972)





This phrase, so to speak, refers to Ezra Pound’s modernist imperative in his eponymous 1934 collection of essays.





This ‘slogan’ urges the writer to create from the material of the artwork that is distinctly innovative.





The idea behind this ‘slogan’ is, for me, fully desirable in photography.