In the wild

December 15, 2025 Paul Politis photographs 0

Toronto, July 14, 2025 (photograph) by Paul Politis

“You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”

Not cute and lovable (2 photos)
“For me a picture must always be something lovable, pleasurable and pretty, yes, something pretty. There are enough unpleasant things in the world; we do [...]
Bicycle and flower
Fulcrum
Sitting around
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for [...]
Existence of the other
“Attention changes the world. How you attend to it changes what it is you find there. What you find then governs the kind of attention [...]
Mood
“To see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognise it as a photographic possibility – that’s what I’m interested in.” — Stephen Shore
Momentary blaze
“A poem can leave its maker at once more deeply seized by existence and, in a profound way, alienated from it, for as the act [...]
Exhibition
Make the day rise brightly
A Prayer That Will Be Answered Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even [...]
Squirrel geometry
“You will learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the [...]