Monday, September 12, 2022

How Literal Is Photography?


To me this photograph looks like it was made in the dead of winter. Which is weird because I'm the photographer and, fact, the image was captured just a few weeks ago, in late August. The temperature was in the upper 80s and the air was humid, of course. I wasn't really even thinking about the weather at the time I made the exposure. I just enjoyed the the way the windows were designed on this building and wanted to incorporate that into a composition. It was only after the fact and after converting to black and white that I thought about the weather at all. Perhaps such ambiguity opens up multiple possible narratives for the image. The viewer will ultimately decide for themselves, and that is fine by me.