A photographer friend had asked for quotes on the ‘feeling’ in photography, and I offered Irvin Penn from a collection I had assembled a while back.. ‘A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective’. This led me to hunt down …
Khmer Quotes
Thanks to input from both Gem and Richard Young (a fellow member of the PhotoBath collective), I think I had a bit of a breakthrough on the exhibition images. That is, to use Khmer text for the quotes, with a small English translation underneath. I believe that this makes the image intrinsically more interesting (maybe Barthes ‘punctum’ for some viewers?). …