Montreal, July 29, 2024

Visible world

September 8, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was […]

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. […]

Ottawa, July 5, 2023 (photograph) by Paul Politis

Play

December 4, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due not merely to the beauty with which it can be invested but also […]

Ottawa, June 11, 2023 (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis

Incognito

October 31, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the […]

Urban scrawl

May 23, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel

The photographer

March 31, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]

Apparition, Ottawa, February 26, 2023 (photograph) by Paul Politis

Apparition

March 18, 2023 Paul Politis 0

Detail: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are […]

Ottawa, April 12, 2022

Internal combustion

December 6, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]

Untitled (black and white photograph)

Y Pues Nada

June 19, 2022 Paul Politis 0

“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]

Crown (black and white photograph)

Crown

June 10, 2022 Paul Politis 0

From The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron: “For most of us, the idea that the creator encourages creativity is […]