I live on the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia and, as a result of my early morning poodlewalks along the coast, I I have become very aware of light, and especially the power and violence of light in relation to photography. My usual mode of photography is one of being anxious to minimise or avoid the blinding or excessive light that results in blown highlights. So I would normally photograph in soft or low light situations (using both analog and digital cameras) to manage the excessive and destructive light.
However, as a result of my experiences of the fluidity of light along the coast during this year I have tentatively started to explore light as the subject of photography. It is very tentative though:
The traditional interpretation of light in our western culture contrasts light with darkness, with light standing for vision, reason, knowledge, truth and the real --eg.,as exemplified in the Enlightenment movement. On this interpretation light serves as a transparent medium in which truth and the objective world are revealed. Light unveils, clarifies, illuminates and makes the world around us perceptible and knowable.
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