a new year

A few days late to wish you a Happy New Year, but I do heartily anyway.

It's a peaceful and healthy one that I wish for you (and for myself). No polemic, here, just a reflection on the fairly broad consensus that we are now in uncharted waters.

This little newsletter has had a couple of a fairly obvious subtexts from the start. The social and the material environment are in the matrix of every photograph I have posted. And both the social and the material are in crisis.

So, as to intentions and directions...

I have turned away from (anti-)social media. My participation will never beat the algorithm set by one oligarch or other.

I have turned my attention to printing. A material object has a lot more power than the evanescent electronic image (also selected by an algorithm). And a print makes me sit up straight and see both the potential and the failure of my work.

I have an evolving, ongoing project. It will, I hope, coalesce into a series capturing something of the present moment, both social and material. Here's a candidate for inclusion.

May this year be one of peace and health. May we respond responsibly and compassionately to our neighbours and our world in crisis. May we act and resist.

The work of L. M. Sacasas, Geoff Dyer and Rebecca Solnit have been challenge and soccour over the last months. For different reasons, I highly recommend them. What are you reading?

What photography are you looking at? I have been looking at Fred Herzog (thank you, Irene!), Louis Faurer and W.G. Sebald.

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