I am a firm believer that photography does not have to present reality (whatever that is), but rather to convey a feeling, an emotion, to allow the viewer to be taken away by a story or by a character. In december 1865, Charles Baudelaire was writing to his mother: Je voudrais avoir ton portrait. C’est [...]
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Occupied by Wall Street
February 10, 2012
In the previous post I laid out the principle I was taught a while ago: when the photograph is about something else than colour, shoot black and white. I kept thinking about iconic images in black and white and one of the strongest I know of is this image made by Paul Strand showing people [...]
Wild Colt
February 10, 2012
In his 50 years retrospective book, Bill Allard talks about how this image changed his perception on colour photography. The image of a wild horse on Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, where all we actually see is the beautiful golden colour, and the horse’s silhouette. I think that this photograph shows beautifully [...]
New Blog, New Website and a New Post
February 5, 2012
There’s nothing like good website hacking to get things going again. So welcome to puckimages.com, formerly known as dabija.net. The old website will still be available for a while. Here’s an image that represents for me the essence of photography, from the master of the decisive moment, HC Bresson. The image boils with life, with [...]
William Allard
January 2, 2012
I like his work immensely, mainly for the deep sense of connection that transcends his photographs. Allard’s images look as they have been taken by a family member, by a local, they are candid and true. In his words, they have been “given”, not taken. This image is one of my favourites from his work [...]
Why So Blue?
December 13, 2011
I feel that for the first time, the images I made on Harris and Lewis are linked together, speak of the same things. I feel this is a great improvement on my photography to date. I got plenty of questions regarding processing and the “unreal” colours of some (if not all) of the photos. There [...]
A Blue Morning
December 7, 2011
This November I’ve been back to Scotland, on a photography workshop with Bruce Percy. This year I’ve been very short on time for photography so this week in November was a special treat for me. I’ve spent the week on Harris and Lewis islands, a place I’ve wanted to visit since my first scottish experience [...]
Camera Obscura – the magic of Abelardo Morell
May 29, 2011
In the May issue of National Geographic there is an article on the work of Abelardo Morell, called “A room with a view”. It took me a while to understand exactly what it was that I was looking at, and even now, knowing how the images are produced, I feel like I am witnessing pure [...]
Maritimes
May 21, 2011
Here’s a sheet of the photos from the Maritimes (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). Portfolio will be online soon with higher resolution images. I like how the photos appear together on a single “sheet”, similar to what the lab gives you. I’ve first seen this type of presentation on Bruce Percy’s site, here If you [...]
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