TRANSIENT LIGHT, FLEETING TIME

This book is composed of: 

•50 essays of about 350 words each laid out across from 

•a full page photograph 

•and note about the picture itself.

THE IDEA

The full-page images thoughtfully relate to the texts. They are not an attempt to illustrate the text but to ask questions about image-making .

There are portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and documentary images. The book is 112 pages, 

218 mm x 218mm, bound to lay flat on opening. 

Its natural audience are students of the medium including amateurs; 

*it is appropriate for university level discussions and for advanced amateurs, 

and for those who appreciate the beauty of the medium. 

It is entertaining and educative but not overly technical, appropriate for artists, writers and theatre practitioners of other media.

The essays are:

LOOKING AND SEEING     CURIOSITY FIRST     CURIOSITY AND MYSELF

WHY PHOTOGRAPH     DISCOVERING THEMES     I AM MY THEMES

THEMES, CONTENT AND SUBJECT MATTER     A RIGHT TO PHOTOGRAPH

AN ACT OF LOVE     MUSE     PRE-VISUALIZATION     PASSION AND ILLUSION

REPORTING OR COMMITTING     IBIZA (or Learning What's Important To Photograph)

THE LOAM OF STORYTELLING     A STORY ABOUT STORYTELLING

STORYTELLING AND THE BRAIN     WE NEED A STORY OF OURSELVES

REALISM VS NATURALISM     SIX KINDS OF PHOTO-ESSAYS     DEEP SONG

DUENDE     CONTRIBUTING WITH MY CAMERA     MEMORY AND FORGETTING

A STORY FOR GENERATIONS     I ASK THIS     PRESERVING TRADITIONS

PHOTOGRAPHING HISTORY     BEAUTY     STYLE     SEARCHING FOR GRACE

THE DECISIVE MOMENT     DISCOVERING EQUIVALENT'S

MYSTERIES OF MEANING     LIGHT (The First Material)     TIME (The Second Material)

HISTORY IS NOW     SENDING A QUIET MESSAGE     A JOURNEY TOGETHER

RHYTHM IS AT ITS HEART    THE SELFIE     UNIMPORTANT THINGS

MOVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHS     TWO WAY PORTRAITS     THE MOST HEARTENING

PHOTOGRAPHING THEATRE     STREETS AND THEATRES     PHOTOGRAPHING A PROJECT

MAKING THE INVISIBLE, VISIBLE     A FINAL THOUGHT