Thursday, October 18, 2012

Day One: Mickey Smith


photographer: Mickey Smith


I have tasked myself with uploading one photo each day (though more likely in waves) and discussing why I like (or don't like) that image.  Why does the image work?  Or not?  For me.

This photograph, by Irish artist Mickey Smith, is stunning.  Human; and yet not.  Natural; and yet not.  This is a work that can only be a photograph.  It might even be a "mistake" (that is, was Mickey, in fact, attempting to focus on the surfer in the bg?).  Perhaps not.  It does not matter.  The result is powerful and mysterious.

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