Articles by Paul Politis
Out of nothing
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 […]
Familiarity breeds
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 […]
Reflections on a puddle
I turned the corner into a dim alley and this scene lay at my feet. Like a portal, or a corpse.
Unfulfilled
“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 […]
Wandering with a camera
This photo is of some metalwork in front of an old building that I’ve wandered past from time to time. The sun was throwing a […]
Surfaces
Here’s a new series of colour photographs, much of which are window reflections.
“Skyward” (black and white photos)
Here is a gallery (embedded below) of black and white architectural abstractions from a series called Skyward. Click on the first thumbnail and using your […]
“You Are Here” (black and white photos)
Hello! Check out a new gallery of photos, You Are Here, embedded below. Black and white photographs capturing people within the concrete and metal urban […]
Mirrors and Windows
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 […]
Hope/Faith
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 […]
Joy of creative work
“Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling. It’s a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit of life, […]