Fish & Chipsby
asheppComment by ubique: This is so close to brilliant. If I could just forgive you for this processing technique (I've seen it somewhere, but I can't recall what it's called I'm sorry ... actually I'm not sorry!), then it
would be brilliant. Unreservedly.
It's a really good documentary photograph ... part way between art and reportage, which is a lovely place for a photographer to be! It's certainly far more than a portrait. Yes it reports ΓΆ€“ showing us what's going on here, what they sell, what they communicate to their customers; stuff like that. But it also editorialises, in that it reveals how these guys
feel about their business, about themselves, and especially about each other. They're family of course; got to be.
And it reaches beyond just this one shop. By implication it suggests that if these guys can pause for a moment, and can look like this, presumably so could the busy people in
all the similar High Street businesses that we take for granted. I could see it as part of a series. In fact it should be.
So, it's too emotional to be journalism; too factual to be art. I like that. Just can't quite love that processing. 9.
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