Montreal, April 21, 2024

Poster generations

June 9, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change […]

Montreal, April 22, 2024

Without words

June 5, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“This life I have made is too small. It doesn’t allow enough in: enough ideas, enough beliefs, enough encounters with the exuberant magic of existence. […]

Montreal, May 26, 2023

Le Red Tiger

June 2, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all […]

Ottawa, April 12, 2023

Yadda

May 26, 2024 Paul Politis 0

Look over there, it’s Ray K. Metzker: “The elusive is what we seek, be it of the heart or the mind. The artist learns to […]

Montreal, May 26, 2023

Ill-designed world

May 19, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of […]

Ottawa, August 12, 2023

Going home

March 31, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“I don’t know the meaning of this journey I was forced to make, between one and another night, in the company of the whole universe… […]

Ottawa, December 24, 2023

Making pictures

March 27, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“…To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making […]

Ottawa, October 8, 2023

Events

March 24, 2024 Paul Politis 0

A few more quotes from Ray K. Metzker: “I approach photography in the context of art, as a key to understanding. It is my connection […]

Ottawa, November 26, 2023

Dance

March 17, 2024 Paul Politis 0

I recently got a well-worn copy of Unknown Territory: Photographs of Ray K. Metzker, which I’ve wanted for a long time. “I recognize the desire, […]