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Twenty Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

when susan sontag claimed that “all photographs are memento mori”, she was making a point in general about photography’s relation to death, and necessarily that of time itself. in a way, we are all on our own pilgrimage towards death; always living towards death. but a photograph ‘frozen in time’ jolts me out of temporality and into a realization that we are all headed to the same place, albeit in our own ‘time’. the camera is never neutral. being ‘non-interventionist’ is a political stance taken and claiming to be apolitical is a dissimulation at best. so the next time you aim the camera, make sure you take the world hostage. we can all be violent, just as violent as gandhi was for peace.

Tags: bosnia yugoslavia photography
April 07, 2012
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"The camera doesn’t rape, or even possess, though it may presume, intrude, trespass, distort, exploit, and, at the farthest reach of metaphor, assasinate - all activities that, unlike the sexual push and shove, can be conducted from a distance, and with some detachment."

— Susan Sontag, On Photography

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February 17, 2012
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2011: waking dreams

memories.

zagreb | postojna | ljubljana | belgrade | budapest | berlin | cuenca | krakow

minolta x-300. holga. various films.

Tags: film photography zagreb postojna ljubljana belgrade budapest berlin cuenca krakow
January 04, 2012
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kenneth is a blabbering idiot who wastes his parents' money by attending a course in the verbosity that is known to others as english literature. what better way to waste his youth.

that said, he does not speak nor write as well as he wishes to. so he tries to compensate this sometimes by taking lousy photos. analogue photography speaks to him more personally because of the sense of efficacy he gets out of it. and happy accidents with film could always be used to pass off as artistic gift/guise.

forgive him if he talks too much. thinking too much is yet another of his shortfalls. but unfortunately that came free when his mother purchased him off the counter.

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