SPNC - Year 2 - Instruction # 01 Votive Offering
"The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure." Don McCullin
I wanted to supply this photo almost as an anti-offering to the week's theme - in the sense we are not literally on the streets and the fight for space for this lady is almost at an end you feel. It is as if she has been abandoned, almost as an offering to the (deaf) Gods in the hope the living might be permitted to exist for longer. Death is a part of life...and were it not for death, the fight for space and time and pleasure would be more intense than it already is. There is a certain similarity in their (Man-God and lady) poses even....
SPNC - Year 2 - Instruction # 01 Votive Offering
"The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure." Don McCullin
I wanted to supply this photo almost as an anti-offering to the week's theme - in the sense we are not literally on the streets and the fight for space for this lady is almost at an end you feel. It is as if she has been abandoned, almost as an offering to the (deaf) Gods in the hope the living might be permitted to exist for longer. Death is a part of life...and were it not for death, the fight for space and time and pleasure would be more intense than it already is. There is a certain similarity in their (Man-God and lady) poses even....