Exercise 5.3 Behind the Gare Saint Lazare

H.C. Bresson made the picture above behind Gare Saint Lazare in Paris in 1932. The man leaping over a puddle caught in the pregnant moment where his image is mirrored in the puddle is the pivotal element in this photograph. The fence isolate the scene , forcing the eye to come back and analyse the…

Exercise 5.2 – final

Reading the course more attentively I have come across the idea I didn't response to an image but copied one in the previous post. Especially reading the quote from Victor Burgin "I am referring to the universally familiar phenomenon of looking at one image and having another image spontaneously come to mind". When I participated…

Exercise 5.2 – draft

"I saw people in confusion, on the verge of insanity; unattractively dressed men and women with eyes full of sorrow and desperation. They looked like shadows"Titarenko I've chosen to respond at this image made by Alexey Titarenko in the "City of Shadows" because it echoes me something familiar. I don't know if it is the novels of Dostoevsky who described…

Exercise 5.1

For this exercise I wanted to photograph my parents and hoping in one photograph that can express our close relationship. I think the last photograph(no.5) with my father is the best one, even is a little bit odd because of his playful mood (he tried to remove my camera and we were laughing and I …