Lady Vervaine
Disappearing // A Short Story // 1 of 4
We've all experienced a disappearing by now. People come and go the whole time on Flickr. That's the nature of cyberspace, and by and large, we just accept it. But sometimes someone disappears, and you can't accept it. You can't get your head around the idea that they're gone. This is a story about one of those people.
He was someone whose posts I'd always looked forward to. His pictures made me look at photographs differently. They were images of the everyday world, but transformed by film into something strange and poetic. He started using Holgas way before most of us had heard of toy cameras; he expanded my horizons beyond the digital. I don't think I would've found my way to Polaroids without his example.
Most importantly: his pictures always made me look closer. They made me pay full attention to what was there, and what was not. They even made me look at the world more intensely, as I walked around it.
And then he disappeared.
Disappearing // A Short Story // 1 of 4
We've all experienced a disappearing by now. People come and go the whole time on Flickr. That's the nature of cyberspace, and by and large, we just accept it. But sometimes someone disappears, and you can't accept it. You can't get your head around the idea that they're gone. This is a story about one of those people.
He was someone whose posts I'd always looked forward to. His pictures made me look at photographs differently. They were images of the everyday world, but transformed by film into something strange and poetic. He started using Holgas way before most of us had heard of toy cameras; he expanded my horizons beyond the digital. I don't think I would've found my way to Polaroids without his example.
Most importantly: his pictures always made me look closer. They made me pay full attention to what was there, and what was not. They even made me look at the world more intensely, as I walked around it.
And then he disappeared.