Wandering with a camera
This photo is of some metalwork in front of an old building that I’ve wandered past from time to time. The sun was throwing a […]
Articles by Paul Politis
Surfaces
Here’s a new series of colour photographs, much of which are window reflections.
“Skyward” (black and white photos)
Here is a gallery (embedded below) of black and white architectural abstractions from a series called Skyward. Click on the first thumbnail and using your […]
“You Are Here” (black and white photos)
Hello! Check out a new gallery of photos, You Are Here, embedded below. Black and white photographs capturing people within the concrete and metal urban […]
Mirrors and Windows
Recently I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting to think of one’s own work and the […]
Hope/Faith
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that […]
Joy of creative work
“Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling. It’s a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit of life, […]
’20/20′ (20 colour photos)
Have a look at a new gallery of photos, 20/20, embedded below. Best viewed by clicking on the first thumbnail and using your keyboard arrows […]
“Otherworld”
I’ve posted a new selection of photos called “Otherworld“.
Feedback loop
“Technique must be solid, positive, but elastic, must not fall into formula, must adapt itself to the idea. And for each new idea there must […]
A photographer solves a picture
“When three-dimensional space is projected monocularly on to a plane, relationships are created that did not exist before the picture was taken. Things in the […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
For the joy of seeing
“Why is photography, like the other arts, that kind of intoxication? And a quieter pleasure too, so that occasionally photographers discover tears in their eyes […]