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lost and found

5/12/2014

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in the empty moments I would reach out to capture something. via the camera, objects in the street became hand holds on a climbing wall, tiny ledges of purchase. in busy trajectories the stop and capture claws a moment of freedom. walking past things I have captured previously builds an eccentric map, breadcrumbs on a trail, to mark existence. when logic fails go to poetry. when emotion is strong, aim at the simple.

I met  a cellist the other day - Mayda Narvey - she shared with me her practice of taking a photo of a time when she was very happy. a talisman to touch. I borrowed that practice from her for my twitter 'creative phone tip' today.

I met a man once in an airport check-in queue. He said: 'I've just said goodbye to someone I won't see for a while.' I must have offered some kind of commiseration. He waved it away by saying 'Sadness is under-appreciated.' Lostness, too, is under-appreciated. 

I remember times of feeling totally aimless and lost - feelings which at the time I wanted at the time to escape. Those moments now gleam with an indefinable quality which is strangely yet undeniably comforting (or is that just me?).

in a moment of lostness - shoot
in a moment of boredom - shoot
you'll never know what was there unless you shoot
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    Performer and theatremaker Peta Lily  has been taking photographs for the last five years. Her aesthetic has been to use her iPhone camera to capture the world close up and with an immediacy that is both surprising and moving.

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