1 of 3 - Through Hotel Window
by insteps

Comment:
this series has the problem of one photo being too good, and that's this photo.

this reminds me of the first landscapes, which would have one or more people tucked into a corner to show the majesty of nature. They were Romantic paintings, capital R. This man is proudly part of what surrounds him. This man is the kind of man who built these surroundings.

diagonals
by mitalapo

Comment:
I love Modern Times peeking from the side. I swear I was already seeing this as a parade of Chaplins before I saw that sign.

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by RKT

Comment:
there's something to this, photographs of curtains.

there's some metaphor here. something to do with curtains opening like the camera shutter, and quickly closing again. something to do with separation of inside and outside, a separation of worlds. Something to do with a soft, changing border. Something to do with letting in light but nothing else.

Four - 1/8/19
by colorcarnival

Comment:
all the color of the previous day spilled onto the parking lot. You can't see the colors because they soaked into the asphalt, but you can smell them

obelisks
by mitalapo

Comment:
she consults her holy book for the correct prayer.

It is the Prayer of Time Travel

Oh Lord, forget these late centuries, that I may live in some old memory of yours, when your name was on everyone's lips.

Afternoon at the Zoo
by Germaine

Comment:
this is wonderful. a bright madness.

1 of 3
by insteps

Comment:
these photos create the illusion of pure black and whiteness, no grays. As if you've figured out the world for us and drawn it simply. But of course you haven't. You've only revealed the mystery, not solved it.

Pinecone
by Elaine

Comment:
Good take on the pinecone! You really got in there.

half plane
by mitalapo

Comment:
I love that one person is bisected by a wall, the other by the frame of the photo itself. and I love that the wall is slightly tilted. Great shot.

SP.1
by mariuca

Comment:
I love that you call these self portraits. If you had called them street shots and hoped we didn't notice you, it would be an entirely different and less interesting concept. I much prefer the idea of you dissolving, collapsing, and fragmenting into your photos.