Lili
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Thank you Helen, It was the only shot that really presented itself to me.Loove that one Lili....
You've seemed to capture an eeriness and the grain is Hot
Cheers! helen
I did not find it, it was handed to me on a platter
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Thank you Helen, It was the only shot that really presented itself to me.Loove that one Lili....
You've seemed to capture an eeriness and the grain is Hot
Cheers! helen
It's not at all banal, it's the core. What's the message, what are you trying to say? Are there too many messages for them to gel?Mitch,
This may sound unbelievably banal, but what are you trying to say with your book?
What is your message?
Lili: I've finished the edit, by adding almost thirty pictures, deleting a couple and rearranging a few. You can see the results on my flickr slideshow (183 pictures):I expect to finish an edit of the series by the end of the week, at least by adding about a dozen pictures if not deleting some — but the latter may take a little longer.
Looking forward to the results
That's cool, Lili! Is that at ISO 800?Mitch, very nice Show Shots.
Suits your style very very well.
My homage to your style
Totally agree. The one above it is softly haunting, as opposed to another favorite portrait of yours which had a stronger sense of ennui.I like the one with the spoon in the girl's mouth. Something makes me keep coming back to that one out of the series.
Bertie, you raise some interesting points. Your wife is right: it is meant as a dark vision of Bangkok: Thailand as a real place with real people as opposed to the automatons conjured up by the trite "Land of Smiles" tourism campaigns. There are few smiling Thais in these pictures, although there are some girls laughing almost hysterically. The series is meant to portray life in a huge, chaotic tropical city in which life for most people is difficult: for example, working people often have to commute to work 1-1/2 - 2 hours each way, changing buses three or four times; they have financial pressure, etc.; and life can often be harsh. Also, I have been interested in how you portray a tragic sense through photography — and don't know whether this book can accomplish that, but I've made a bit of an effort to do so....I've looked through on Flickr a couple of times - not a problem with our very high speed access, and also got my wife to have a look. She thought the pix showed a very dark side to Bangkok, and used the words 'decadent' and 'spoilt' [meaning spoilt by western influences]. She also explained the relevance of the nudes - but then she is a gynaecologist.
I am very left-brained when it comes to artistic impressions, so I won't try...but I did see a coherent body of work, even if I didn't fully understand it - but that is my difficulty, not a failure of the artist...
A previous commentator - I think it was Lili - said that there were two people involved in looking a picture - the artist or author and the viewer. True enough, but there is an intermediate viewer - the agent or publisher. It is these people who you now have to impress with the significance, importance and viability of your project - not only those here who can give an artistic appraisal. You have mentioned editing the pix for your final version: an agent might well wish to see further evidence of your work [if they haven't already] - and you might well find that you have to make some compromises with respect to the final content.