I love photography and I love running. I am just now getting back into shape after a longer-than-I-thought break from running. Most of the time, because I am covering very short distances from home as I stumble and wheeze into fitness, I don’t bring anything with me, other than a house key tied to my …
In the beginning were the Knoll brothers. It is a built in aspect of the human condition that we never seem to stand still. Whatever innovation man’s ingenuity devises there is always someone who will improve and eventually replace it. Generally this is to the overall benefit and some things will also filter back to …
Progress, Progress and more Regress? Analogue Photography and the Digital World. Read More
For a few years now I have been using photography as a way to explore philosophy, especially around metaphysics. Photography is bound to a practical visual reality, so depicting an abstract idea means photographing it in practice, as a real experience or something that manifests in behaviour or culture. My consideration of metaphysical ideas therefore …
In a nutshell: it was like a boxing match between me and the world, or perhaps between me and my ego. I’m unsure at this point which, because I’ve now taken so many blows to the head that I’m surprised it’s still attached. What was I even supposed to get out of it? I probably …
Image above created by the AI image generator (DALL-E) “There used to be big men in the world, men of mind and power and imagination. There was St. Paul and Einstein and Shakespeare… There was Julius Caesar and Tolstoy and Immanuel Kant. But now it’s all robots. Robots and the pleasure principle. Everybody’s head is …
