For madmen only

March 16, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“Do you think I can’t understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the […]

Untitled (colour photograph)

Internal combustion

December 6, 2022 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 […]

Insight (black and white photograph)

Ghost

June 3, 2022 Paul Politis 0

ghost (gōst) n. 1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among […]

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 […]