A Series # 17: Restaurant Window (black and white photograph)

Angels

June 7, 2021 Paul Politis 0

This photo is kind of fitting in light of my recent comments about familiarity and wandering the same areas. I remember that I had snapped […]

Two Rooms (black and white photograph)

Out of nothing

June 1, 2021 Paul Politis 0

To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]

Hotel Sign Detail (black and white photograph)

Familiarity breeds

May 27, 2021 Paul Politis 0

One thing, of course, about wandering the same areas repeatedly is that one has the opportunity to see how things look at different times of […]

White Chair (black and white photograph)

Unfulfilled

May 19, 2021 Paul Politis 0

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]

Construction Site Boarded Wall (black and white photograph)

Bored

May 11, 2021 Paul Politis 0

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it […]

Surfaces

March 8, 2021 Paul Politis 0

Here’s a new series of colour photographs, much of which are window reflections.

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Freedom

February 5, 2021 Paul Politis 0

“Don’t bother about your originality, set yourself just as free as you can and your originality will take care of you. It will be as […]

Insight (black and white photograph)

Mirrors and Windows

January 4, 2021 Paul Politis 0

Recently I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting to think of one’s own work and the […]

Made of Glass (black and white photograph)

Hope/Faith

January 1, 2021 Paul Politis 0

Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that […]