2024-03-31 17:00
“I don’t know the meaning of this journey I was forced to make, between one and another night, in the company of the whole universe… [...] Read More
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Black and white photography of Paul Politis. Creative black and white photography: street photography, urban photography, night photography, abstract photography.
2024-03-27 14:27
“…To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making [...] Read More
2024-03-24 19:00
A few more quotes from Ray K. Metzker: “I approach photography in the context of art, as a key to understanding. It is my connection [...] Read More
2024-03-18 00:20
I got a used copy of Unknown Territory: Photographs of Ray K. Metzker, which I’ve wanted for a long time. “I recognize the desire, the need [...] Read More
2024-03-10 17:52
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2024-02-14 00:47
‘ “The only attitude worthy of a superior man is to persist in an activity he recognizes is useless, to observe a discipline he knows [...] Read More
2024-02-07 00:12
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“Formerly, yes, art and culture, and the Apollonian and the Dionysian and all that, seemed terribly important. But today I’m satisfied if I can turn [...] Read More
2024-01-27 13:59
2024-01-23 23:37
Reading Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse. “He did not think about it, he deadened his thoughts with constant work. His feeling was: you can go at [...] Read More
2024-01-21 00:11
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“Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every [...] Read More
2023-12-04 22:43
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2023-11-17 16:45
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It’s a pleasure for me. The process of photographing. Being physically in the world, eyes open, attentive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. To be [...] Read More
2023-11-09 18:43
Wandering Ottawa Read More
2023-11-07 17:26
2023-10-31 15:51
“For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the [...] Read More
2023-10-30 20:25
2023-09-18 23:04
“Tomorrow I too — this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself — yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no [...] Read More
2023-09-11 16:18
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I’m nobody, nobody. I don’t know how to feel or [...] Read More
2023-09-08 17:01
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Like two wrestlers I am mostly still As the Four Horsemen Come over the hill Trying to pass themselves off as the Holy Trinity When [...] Read More
2023-08-10 15:18
Montreal, May 2023 Read More
2023-08-05 16:55
Montreal, May 2023 Read More
2023-06-28 15:28
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2023-05-23 22:59
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel Read More
2023-05-19 20:03
“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it [...] Read More
2023-05-14 23:08
I was playing with the curves on the front gate on Parliament Hill here in Ottawa when this guy — who is in the most [...] Read More
2023-05-10 20:27
I stopped for a coffee after a few hours of wandering the city when this young lady framed herself nicely, for a brief moment, in [...] Read More
2023-05-08 01:15
2023-05-03 22:27
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life [...] Read More
2023-04-27 23:01
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2023-03-31 14:33
“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes [...] Read More
2023-03-28 00:28
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, [...] Read More
2023-03-24 09:36
2023-03-22 20:51
*** “To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you [...] Read More
2023-03-18 23:32
Detail: * * * “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon [...] Read More
2023-03-16 23:07
“Do you think I can’t understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the [...] Read More
2023-03-14 16:42
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2023-02-28 00:25
Some photos I’ve taken this winter Read More
2023-01-24 00:33
2023-01-19 00:11
2023-01-14 23:38
Some days, when the mood strikes, I like to set my camera to square format and to regard the world through that visual framing for [...] Read More
2023-01-10 17:57
Perhaps the bottom photo doesn’t work so well at a small size on the web but the focus is on the man in the distance [...] Read More
2023-01-06 00:14
2023-01-01 16:12
Happy new year. I hope you all have a great 2023 Read More
2022-12-29 00:15
2022-12-21 00:17
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with [...] Read More
2022-12-10 16:15
2022-12-06 13:04
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something [...] Read More
2022-11-30 23:44
Click to view the series Read More
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2022-10-08 00:38
Give me back my broken night My mirrored room, my secret life It’s lonely here There’s no one left to torture Give me absolute control [...] Read More
2022-06-23 17:45
We find ourselves on different sides Of a line nobody drew Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we [...] Read More
2022-06-19 06:06
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of [...] Read More
2022-06-10 14:04
From The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron: “For most of us, the idea that the creator encourages creativity is [...] Read More
2022-06-06 18:37
2022-06-03 14:33
ghost (gōst) n. 1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among [...] Read More
2022-05-05 19:44
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*** “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures [...] Read More
2022-04-19 16:07
Last year I had been spending some time looking at the paintings of Piet Mondrian. His lozenge compositions are primarily what had inspired me in [...] Read More
2022-04-14 21:55
2022-03-09 15:44
“There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only to snatch up my scattered images and raise my life […] to [...] Read More
2022-03-04 00:05
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I [...] Read More
2022-02-26 21:42
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle [...] Read More
2022-01-07 00:02
“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.” ― Sylvia Plath, Elm Read More
2022-01-02 13:18
“That favourite subject, Myself” — James Boswell Read More
2022-01-01 23:36
2021-12-28 08:11
2021-12-18 14:14
This is expressed so well. Whenever I look through my past work I remember distinctly which photos were the result of ‘the gasp’: “And there [...] Read More
2021-12-14 23:24
2021-12-11 15:38
“There are two worlds; or rather, two distinct ways of looking at the same world. And they can be called (for convenience) the Inspired and [...] Read More
2021-12-08 17:05
I didn’t even see the guy in the far left corner watching me until I looked at the photo later on my computer. I and [...] Read More
2021-12-04 18:00
Well, you know in your heart what you gotta bring No big mink coat, no diamond ring Well, take off your paint and take off [...] Read More
2021-12-02 00:00
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where [...] Read More
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