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, […]

Ottawa, September 1, 2023

In arbitrary space

February 13, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“The only attitude worthy of a superior man is to persist in an activity he recognizes is useless, to observe a discipline he knows is […]

Ottawa, July 23, 2023

Tale of a houseplant

January 30, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“Formerly, yes, art and culture, and the Apollonian and the Dionysian and all that, seemed terribly important. But today I’m satisfied if I can turn […]

Ottawa, March 9, 2023

Winter scene

January 23, 2024 Paul Politis 0

Reading Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse. “He did not think about it, he deadened his thoughts with constant work. His feeling was: you can go at […]

Ottawa, July 4, 2023 (photograph) by Paul Politis

Kuboaa

January 6, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every […]

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, May 12, 2023 (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis

In the world

November 12, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“It’s a pleasure for me. The process of photographing. Being physically in the world, eyes open, attentive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. To be […]

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 […]

Montreal, August 3, 2023 (colour photograph) by Paul Politis

Passer-by

September 18, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“Tomorrow I too — this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself — yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no […]

Montreal, August 3, 2023 (colour photograph) by Paul Politis

Geometry of the abyss

September 11, 2023 Paul Politis 0

“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I’m nobody, nobody. I don’t know how to feel or […]

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