Jerome Marot
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Perhaps in a tryptic they would have more impact...
I like in them the way you have captured the scene. With the same speed and aspect.
Well done !
This is quite interesting. I did not know about the photographs of Yi Wan-Gyo.
His technique is a bit different, however. He seems to use a very strong and coarse grain to reduce details. But, from your pictures, I understand that the prints of Yi Wan-Gyo were sometimes quite big. I wonder how the resulting effect was.
Personally, when I add grain as an effect, I tend to use a much finer grain on large prints than on small ones. I prefer a more subtle effect. So I am quite interested on the impression you had at this exhibition.
For me living near a US Armed forces cemetery, these pictures move me immediately with a rush of anguish, questionable but brave sacrifice and sense of deep tragic loss.
Yet I do not know how he makes his photos, I didn't find any information on the net ...
But what was overwhelming in this exhibition, was how one fell into his photos after a few seconds, minutes of watching them ... they are opening themselves in some very special way.
Thank you. This is exactly the kind of answer that is valuable to me.
The photographs do not picture a cemetery, but that is not important. What is important to me is the kind of feeling the pictures raise in the viewers. I am sorry that the feelings are so tragic in your case, other people talked about some kind of mysticism.
As a side note, I would like to remind you that I linked this thread in the one about planning pictures for output quality. These have been presented in A2 size (16"x 24"), but A1 would not be a problem (24"x 34").