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Hietaniemi beach, Helsinki.
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More great news! I'm very happy and flattered to be selected among the finalists in the 2018 Hasselblad Masters Awards under the Street/Urban category. This selected series is part of my Street Metaphysics series.
Please go to the 2018 Hasselblad Masters page to take part to the public vote and give 3 stars to my image series if you like to support it. Thank you very much in advance!
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Winner Architecture Masterprize 2023 - category Public Exterior architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=7243
Honorable mention Tokyo Foto Awards 2023 - category Architecture
Metaphysics embraces physics, as physics expresses aspects of what is meta. We catch it in moments of balance, when our vision expands across dimensions and we see in depth. It is the sense Blake had when he held infinity in the finite palm of his hand, and eternity for the period of an hour...
… She describes how God created, not to increase goodness, which is already infinite, but to reflect that goodness in the multiple beings of creation. Each can proclaim “I am,” she says, and so echo the divine I AM.
The story of creation unfolds in her account, like a great swoop from eternity, across time, and then back to eternity. The heavens and earth are formed. The beings who inhabit the spheres appear. Humanity falls. Civilizations disintegrate in petty squabbles. Then, surprisingly, she realizes that the fighting and quarrels are a digression.
-Mark Vernon, Dante’s Divine Comedy, A guide for the spiritual journey
Celebrating the publishing of my new monograph Street Metaphysics! The regular 7x7 in. version is now available through Amazon. The special high quality 12x12 in. XL-version is available through Blurb.
The book (62 pages) is divided into 4 sections according to the cities where the images where shot in 2016-2017 (New York, Helsinki, Venice and Prague).
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Book of Shadows pages I created. These are not pre-punched so they can be customized for most any Book of Shadows. These pages are on parchment paper 8.5 x 11 size.
Book of Shadows pages I created. These are not pre-punched so they can be customized for most any Book of Shadows. These pages are on parchment paper 8.5 x 11 size.
this photo dates back to a few decades ago. in my youth I was delighted with shots of this kind as I loved metaphysical painters.
..or should I call it "Sunset #9023984?"
"Terrazza Mascagni" - Leghorn :)
Expired Kodak Gold film, unknown date.
[more inside]
chance operation + metaphysical intention = strange attraction
(an alternative perspective on the nature of chaos)
i find, at times, that my camera is making exposures that i did not intend. it does this quite a bit, actually - in between shots, on the way to my pocket, switching between camera apps, and so on. these amount, i think, to chance operations, very-close-to-random events that might be considered misfires and discarded were i an actual photographer. but i often find that i like these images, these tiny, overlooked subjects viewed from odd perspectives, blurred by movement, or, simply, out of focus and poorly exposed. so i take this raw material and begin to look more closely, searching for the treasure within, exploring what may lie in the shadows, just below the surface, or hidden in the cascading light. increase the exposure, lighten the shadows, increase the contrast, decrease the contrast, add color, remove color, smear pixels, sharpen the result, knead and shape the pixels, admitting little bits of sensor noise, like salt or leaven, to bring out distinct and tasty characteristics that are there, not there, then there again. and all the while, i watch in wonder. the heart of a something is slowly revealed. sometimes i am able to discern and articulate some meaning in what i see, sometimes not. i continue the conversation, the dance, the follow-me-slowly from here to there until my partner is no longer following my lead, instead choosing to stand on its own, asserting itself in some mysterious way. sigh. i suppose this is not really photography. or is it? does it really matter? there are things in life that i do not understand, cannot explain, that are beautiful and valuable and wholly themselves whether or not i can name them, whether or not i have the vocabulary, the memory to say 'behold the fill-in-the-blank-with-your-own-favorite-subject.' in the end, i think of these images, of this image, as an essence that somehow wanted to be captured, communicating through some arcane mechanism, some inexplicable connection with the tool i have at hand ... and with me. i like that.
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Mercado do Bolhão, Porto.
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I watched a television documentary recently that was dealing with Meta-physics and the nature of conscious. (Well it was A LOT more in-depth than that), but it went into the history and highlighted how fluid our knowledge in this area is, by documenting the key paradigm shifts. This program was challenging in many ways, (as it was way over my head and some of the in-depth mathematical equations didn’t interest me) but what did, was the way that our knowledge of we think is “real” is totally and utterly not what it seems.
The thing that totally amazed me, was the way that our known laws of physics seem to change the smaller you went. It was as though the ever-decreeing circles distorted the ‘reality’ of the previous.
It kind of solidified my beliefs that what we think of as real and solid is in fact not the case. In fact it is probably more accurate to say that there is an infinite amount that we ‘do not know’. I see it rather logical to say we know such a small minuscule amount about ‘anything’, that its impossible to even perceives our lack of solid ground.
This statement leaves me with mixed feelings. massive insecurities (fear of the unknown) but wonderful optimism, (massive excitement at the mind blowing possibilities) a paradox. It’s almost true to say that everything your imagination can perceive is in fact possible. WOW just imagine that for a second……parallel universes (were mentioned), sprits, aliens, (I know I'm sounding weird and a tad science fiction, but all possible in an infinite world).
I seem to remember the presenter saying that they only knew that quarks existed because of what they ‘couldn’t’ see. He said that the very act of looking for them, (and my spine is tingling at the thought) changed the very physical reality. WOW…. Now I'm probably not making much sense, and I'm struggling to remember precisely what he was saying, but my mind resonated at the unimaginable possibilities that what he was saying offers us.
I personally find this type of conversation vastly inspirational. a world without the confines of so-called laws of psychics, would be truly creative. No boxes to think outside, no rules! But how does it relate to this photograph?
Now it seems to me that when you look at a scene (especially a moment in time like this), that you aren’t really seeing what is there. yes it ‘looks’ like the place I took the image of, and for the purists amongst us, its not to dissimilar from documenting the colour, lighting conditions, sharpness blar de blarr de blarr. But the very act of capturing this image with a camera, that in a couple of years will be considered redundant, begs the question at the importance of those questions. (I have to get the dig in don’t i). It isn’t ‘real’, it isn’t even close to ‘real’, what the hell is real? Our own perception of reality is distorted by our unique experiences. We all see this differently because we do not only see it, we engage emotionally with it. We feel something which changes our perceptions of it.
So to sum this up before I ramble on too long, what does this mean to you? Is it a collection of pixels? A massive chain of zeros and ones, or is it a dull wet cold winters day? Maybe a beach on a parallel universe. May I leave you with a final thought. Imagine if every grain of sand on this beach was a sun and around each and every one there were 20 or so planets……are we alone?
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INDIEN, Varanasi (Benares) frühmorgends entlang der Ghats
Als besonders erstrebenswert gilt es für strenggläubige Hindus, in Varanasi im Ganges zu baden, sowie dort einmal zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden. Entlang des Flusses ziehen sich kilometerlange, stufenartige Uferbefestigungen hin, die Ghats, an denen auf der einen Seite die Gläubigen im Wasser des für sie heiligen Flusses baden und wenige Meter weiter die Leichen der Verstorbenen verbrannt werden. Die Asche streut man anschließend ins Wasser. Ein Bad im Ganges soll von Sünden reinigen, in Varanasi zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden, ist der hinduistischen Mythologie zufolge, der Ausbruch aus dem ständigen Kreislauf der Wiedergeburt.
The Ghats in Varanasi are world-renowned embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions. The ghats are an integral complement to the Hindu concept of divinity represented in physical, metaphysical, and supernatural elements.[90] Varanasi has at least 84 ghats, most of which are used for bathing by pilgrims and spiritually significant Hindu puja ceremony, while a few are used exclusively as Hindu cremation sites. Steps in the ghats lead to the banks of Ganges, including the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, where Hindus cremate their dead. Many ghats are associated with Hindu legends and several are now privately owned.
Many of the ghats were constructed under the patronage of the Marathas, Shindes (Scindias), Holkars, Bhonsles, and Peshwas. Most are bathing ghats, while others are used as cremation sites. A morning boat ride on the Ganges across the ghats is a popular tourist attraction. The extensive stretches of ghats in Varanasi enhance the riverfront with a multitude of shrines, temples, and palaces built "tier on tier above the water's edge".[
Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Belgium.
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Attempting to Uqbar on film.
Milan, June 2021.
135 mm lens, Rollei RPX 25 film.
Perspective adjustment and crop in Darktable.
The University of Saint Andrew is one of the oldest seats of higher education anywhere in the world and I found this location rather interesting. I bet the debates between the students at both of these faculties are intruiging to say the least. It must have been someone with a sense of humour though who decided to sit them right next door to each other.
# Immanuel Kant is one of the influential German philosophers of his time. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg, which is today's Kaliningrad located in present day Russia.
# He is known for his ideas in the fields of Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics and Logic.
# His 3 major works are : Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft), in 1781 which was his Magnum Opus; Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), in 1788 and Critique of Judgment (German: Kritik der Urteilskraft), in 1790.
# His philosophy on ethics (Kantian ethics) is considered central in Deontology. His major work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten), in 1785, explained his philosophy on morality.
# He believed himself to be a compromise between the Empricists and Rationalists of his time and thought that human understanding of Metaphyics can be enhanced or bettered through our study of Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of human knowledge.
# Kant's ideas are studied as Kantianism, and include ideas such as the Categorical imperative, Transcendental Idealism, Deontological Morality, Synthetic A Priori, Noumenon, Schema, Sapere Aude, Nebular hypothesis.
# Though not regarded as a Political Theorist, Kant used his ideas to expound some political views like the classical republican theory which was explained in his work Science of Right.
# The Kingdom of Ends is another thought experiment of Kant which he explained in his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. His is a hypothetical kingdom based on his idea of morality taking shape from the Deontologically moralistic idea of the Categorical Imperative.
"That from which is everything that exists and from which it first becomes and into which it is rendered at last, its substance remaining under it, but transforming in qualities, that they say is the element and principle of things that are. …For it is necessary that there be some nature (φύσις), either one or more than one, from which become the other things of the object being saved..." Aristotle. Metaphysics. Originally Thales of Miletus
After the nifty-fifty adventures, curved abstracts etc etc I still like returning to hi-key work.......
Das Foto zeigt die dem Hl. Ulrich und Hl. Martin geweihte Kirche von Podlanig im Kärntner Lesachtal. Sie ist eine Filialkirche von St. Jakob und liegt, nur durch die schmale Bundesstraße getrennt, direkt oberhalb vom Elternhaus Valtiner. Es ist klar, dass Ursulas Ahnen väterlicherseits fast alle auf dem kleinen Friedhof rund um diese Kirche bestattet wurden.
The photo shows the church dedicated to St Ulrich and St Martin in Podlanig in Carinthia's Lesach valley. It is a branch church of St. Jakob and is located directly above the Valtiner family home, separated only by the narrow main road. It is clear that Ursula's ancestors on her father's side were nearly all buried in the small cemetery around this church.
- Milano Design Week -
Euroluce 2023
My interest has been to show some scenarios I had the privilege to see and wanted to put together some objects, lights and modular structures I liked.
These are examples on how Euroluce showed different ways to use in a parsimonious way the electric light and, since the top keyword has been "Sustainability", I will be sustainable with my non-pro profile and spare up-loads from my yet reduced quota, putting 4 photos in the same diptych, a quatropod (or a quadriptych ?)
My compo is entitled "Addy hasn't the Silver, she has the quick Gold on! " and is dedicated to my dear Friend
Addy Van Rooij aka Adriënne.
No need for presentations, I believe almost all know her for her Art and her long lasting volunteer work as Admin of many groups.
I want to dedicate to Addy this work for celebrating a lil project we have in common and our friendship. May we be brightened and enlightened, cheers and blessings!
In this picture:
- left : a large knitted fabric in gold yarns can be wholly illuminated by just a micro light (the silhouhette is not another fabric but the beautiful shadow formed by the gold lighted by this micro light positioned to the left on a long thin black bar).
- Right: a huge ceiling of golden pepitas that I could fit in a small space but, instead, was supended on top of a very large hall. All the pepitas were illuminated by just low voltage deemed micro lights and able to refract and multiply the overall illumination. Sustainable, yes, because not in gold but, probably, made with just crumpled and tinted aluminum film.
And, among asters (or pepitas, lol) and a golden moon, a very strange mystic jewel, precious as handmade, like a little shrine treasuring some drops...of light... (See details by zooming in)
Finally the round and triangular lamp is a truly genial one: just one little light bulb surrounded by a system of mirrors can multiply the light reflection infinitely, lightening a large area by consuming almost nothing. (Spotted at the Exhibition "The Lights of Tomorrow").
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Gondoliers on the Rio dei Barcaroli, Venice. Long exposure through moving crowd. Part of my Street Metaphysics project.