Retro//Reflection - Issue #10
The World As I See It - A seemingly random collection of photographs, but that's the whole idea!
Once or twice per month I send out a letter with a handful of (my) photographs and share a bit of insight on the ‘why?’ or ‘how?’. As an enthusiastic photographer, anything goes.
Maybe you learn something?
Or perhaps it will spark some inspiration?
I’ve been taking photographs for the best part of 20 years now. But until a few years ago I didn’t really think about making collections, or series or doing a photo project. That means that I have many images in my digital catalog that don’t really have any connection to each other.
… or do they?
The one thing that they have in common, that connect them all together, is me!
I’ve been thinking for some time now what to do with this, seemingly random, set of photographs, and on my computer I have filed them under “The World As I See It”. If you look at the thumbnails it’s an eclectic collection of images - they are all over the place. One way or another, something caught my attention and I took a picture of it.
Apart from this issue of Retroreflection I’m still contemplating what to do with these photographs. One idea is to create a page on my website and have them displayed as a slide show, one at a time for a good amount of time. Time will tell if this makes sense to anyone but myself, but if people are curious they can always ask :) Another idea is to print them out in postcard format to flick through once in a while.
I’ll only add images that I don’t (already) have in a collection, series or project. Should that change, I’ll remove it from the The World As I See It “collection”.
For now it’ll be *just* these photo’s in this post1.
Ps: recently
posted an article about what to do with all the photo’s you love, but don’t fit a body of work, and this nudged me to write this issue of Retroreflection.
So, what do you do with your photographs that don’t fit a specific purpose?
Each issue I want to end with mentioning a photographer, a photography-related website or publication, simply to show my appreciation for what they do.
There are so many reviews on camera gear online, but often it’s just a rambling on specs. Some though know how to write proper reviews that go beyond just talking about the technical details and show great photographs made with said gear. Someone like Jonas Rask!
His blog posts (which are definitely not all about gear) are insightful and he has a great portfolio of photo’s on his website. Have a look here:
https://jonasraskphotography.com
That’s it for this issue.
Thank you for reading until the end :-) Feel free to leave a short comment or message. Appreciate it!
Cheers,
Ronald
ronaldsmeets.info
ps: this article/newsletter/post is free, because I’m not doing this to make a profit. Also, I don’t like subscriptions at all (Tom Pendergast has a great article about not going paid, which I agree with). However, if you do want to show your support, a coffee always helps me writing and posting here ;-)
Maybe it’ll become a recurring theme for future Retroreflection posts.
I recommend you check out the work of Nina Kling. She produced a book last year called, Duologues which consists of paired images. I took inspiration from her and her project and have been slowly created diptychs of images from my archive to begin make sense of a large body of work. https://www.ninaklingphotography.com/duologues
this is the first of all your posts that i see and that is because you were one of the photographers featured in marcel's darkrooms magazine. as a respect for all the work put in, i subscribed today to each photographer that was mentioned in the magazine and for whom i had no subscription. also in today's magazine, you can find michael elliot. if you want something more than just a technical review of a camera, check michael's posts or website. warning: he is using only film cameras.