Images from the edge
Over the last 30 years or so, I’ve visited and revisited an idea I stumbled upon at the very start of my career. You might even call it an insight - it certainly helped me to understand what I was doing. It’s an idea I’ve revisited, many times over the years to see if it still holds water. And you know what? I think it does! I’m talking about the concept of edges and how we, as people, as well as photographers, naturally gravitate towards them. Those can be edges in space - where the land meets the see and the sky meets the land, for example; in time - the transitions between the season or dawn and dusk; or in being - very old and very young subjects. In respect of expressive pictures, at least. Perhaps because the idea has stood the test of time remarkably might just mean that there’s something fundamental in our creative work that the concept of edges helps up to understand.
As always, I’d love it if you’d share your ideas on this topic, on the Show webpage. Oh and, please, help us along the way , would you, with a review and a rating, ideally a 5 star one. It all helps other folks to discover our place down by the stream.
Jim Brandenburg’s Buster on the ice flow
Peter Matthiesen’s The Snow Leopard
On losing our connection with nature
Photographer Patrik Larsson
Photographer Eliot Porter