Le laid peut être beau ; le joli, jamais.
The ugly can be beautiful; the pretty never can.
– Paul Gauguin –
Photography, for me, is escapism. When I look through my camera, I see what I want to see and forget about the world around for a moment. I’m in a happy bubble, another reality I create for myself and like to get lost into. By sharing my photos, I hope to give others a moment of escapism.
I am interested in textures, patterns, contrasts and things that I find visually striking. I am not interested in showing what the object actually is; I focus on the aesthetic and the form, so my pictures tend to be abstract.
There isn’t one unique way of looking at my photos; they are open to interpretation. I am sometimes asked, “what is this a photo of?”. The answer is irrelevant. It can be anything you like; whatever you see in the photo is valid. In fact, I love to hear what people see in my pictures, what they trigger in their minds. I do not wish to pin things down. The point – if there is one – is not to define, limit and restrict, but to spark the imagination, to open the doors of the mind. So please feel free to comment and let me know what you see in those pictures!
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I have a background in fine art and film photography, with an interest in minimalism, urbex and architecture. My photos are very rarely edited as I prefer playing with the camera to playing with the computer.
Karine
Just wanted to say thank you for visiting my blog and commenting and being my 200th follower! Looks like we sometimes shoot similar things so I will reciprocate and add you to my list of blogs I follow.
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You’re welcome. Thanks for visiting and following!
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Thank you for following Storyteller. And, for commenting. You know what John Lennon said when he was asked what his music meant. “Whatever you want it to mean.”
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Thanks, Ray. Great quote – no surprise, coming from Lennon.
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Thanks. There’s a funny story about how I remembered that quote many years after I originally heard it. One day, I’ll tell it.
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Hi Karine. Thank you for visiting and following HoB. Much appreciated!
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You’re welcome, Herman, and thanks for reciprocating!
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Lovely photographs! I think you have a very good eye for turning something otherwise considered “ordinary” into an art form.
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Thanks a lot for your kind comment, Ann!
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Well said Karine and I plan to steal that quote ASAP.
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I do love that quote. This was the topic for an art history / theory exam in high school. We had to comment on it. It struck such a chord with me, it’s never left me.
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You have a beautiful blog here! Thank you for sharing what you see with your lens.
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Thank you very much, (fellow) Sagittarius!
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❤
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Hello Karine !
Looks really good here, fine art photography ! I like it although my own work is much more play with photoshop… Stay healthy, all the best, Jürgen
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Thanks, Jürgen. I try to stay away from photo-editing. I like things to look as raw or plain as they stand in reality.
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Great to see your work. On interpretation, I agree entirely. An art historian proposed the notion of the “beholder’s share”. The work has meaning in the viewer’s context. Contexts can be shared – or not.
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Thanks, Tom. The “beholder’s share” is an interesting concept. I hadn’t come across it before 🙂
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It’s from Ernst Gombrich, can’t remember which book. Art and Illusion, maybe?
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