Just touching base...

Hi,

Although I haven't been around lately, this is to say that I have been enjoying all your fine pictures and posts nevertheless.

Hi Cem,
It's nice to know you're "looking over my shoulder" so to speak.
It's nicer to hear from you .

I hope the New Year brings you peace, joy and many artistic accomplishments.
Be well,

Cem_Usakligil said:

Hi,

Although I haven't been around lately, this is to say that I have been enjoying all your fine pictures and posts nevertheless.

Looking at pictures

May you all have an excellent holiday season and a happy and healthy new year together with your loved ones.

Cheers,

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Hi Cem
nice to see you "also" being back!

A very interesting image… it has 2 different possible approaches for me:

As is, as one of you door/passage… to space?

The other one, without the person, one could really wonder where is ground and where is wall, is there a ceiling?
amazing!

Kind regards

John Angulat said:

Hi Cem,
It's nice to know you're "looking over my shoulder" so to speak.
It's nicer to hear from you

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I hope the New Year brings you peace, joy and many artistic accomplishments.
Be well,

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Hi John,

I, too, have been very happy to see you come back to OPF a while ago. So I have watched your every move in the meantime ;-)

Be very well.

Cheers,
Cem

Nice image! Goes on my "study" list.

Nicolas Claris said:

Hi Cem
nice to see you "also" being back!

A very interesting image… it has 2 different possible approaches for me:

As is, as one of you door/passage… to space?

The other one, without the person, one could really wonder where is ground and where is wall, is there a ceiling?
amazing!

Kind regards

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Bonjour Nicolas,

Thanks for your kind remarks. As usual, there is indeed a duplicity in the image. I personally think of those picture frames as gateways to other times and places; a bit like wormholes. ;-)

Cheers,

Cem
(who had been re-watching the 2001 A Space Odyssey remastered in Blu-Ray format over the weekend)

Rachel Foster said:

Nice image! Goes on my "study" list.

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Hi Rachel,

Thanks! But can you perhaps also tell me why is it nice?

Cheers,

Cem_Usakligil said:

Hi,

Although I haven't been around lately, this is to say that I have been enjoying all your fine pictures and posts nevertheless.

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Cem,

You have never left, there are many pictures you've shared that still have me revisiting. One of the most important facets of photography to grasp is that beyond earning a living of family fun shots, the camera can be an effective tool for expressing one's struggles with concepts we as humans face. I have been following your work on openings, transitions and doorways for some time and at one point managed to put together what you are doing like threading discovered pearls along different beaches to build a necklace unique to one person only the planet has seen. The pictures themselves may not be beautiful, architecturally correct nor provide answers for our questions. What your work does do is help frame a concept, a psychological maze in which we can think about our own existence, past and present. I see this new picture as a further example and advance in your work.




Here, we now are no longer given a real portal, window, door r transitional space dividing one zone of our life from another. There's a motif introduced in your previous museum series. It's the use of a wall and picture frames. In tone previous museum picture of note, we saw both sides of a wall and a viewer looking into unseen pictures on the left side. That idea of the wall not being a block to our journey but rather, (through the various universes in the picture frames), holding passageways to endless new lives is extended here.

Now we actually can see the wall with its array of many pictures, each offering its own playground for the mind. We have been trained to think in terms of opportunities to escape and here they are.

Thanks for sharing this well chosen picture!

Asher

Guys,

I'd like to share my view beyond that this picture is worthy of study and in reference to Cem's previous work.

It's obvious that I've not remarked on composition or anything structural in how the image was built, rather I've been concerned just with concept. This is what one earns when one has focus in trying to express an idea and works and works on it until what one squeezes out of one's brain makes some sense in a 2D image.

I do not ask for the verticals to be corrected, vignette the lighting to allow us to feel attracted to the center or anything else concerning lighting, technique, order, rules, rank, composition or style. These considerations here would be purely technical and for now, at least, until the picture is set to be printed, (and that's a whole new esthetic in play), we can fully enjoy the photograph without any changes.

I'm not saying this picture is ready for delivery. That is likely to be some work, as Cem will, no doubt, consider this in relation to earlier pictures and those yet to be made. However, the essential substance of getting a concept into a physical form that stimulates the senses and invites repeat visits, is already there.

Asher