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A Knowledge of Photography
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reflect P H OTO G R A P H E D B Y:
SCOTT WALKER
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ll artists are regurgitators. One takes the world around them or an idea in their mind and filters it through the creative sieve. Artists reflect their surroundings. In my series of reflection photographs, I chose a reflective surface (most often water) and then focused on an image within that surface. It’s a moment in time. The water will dry or flow into the gutter, and the image I saw will cease to exist. The images I shoot are, for the most part, city scenes.
The liquid softens the hard edges and blurs the straight lines. Water is in constant motion and gives motion to non-mobile images. The reflections also give a false impression of a double exposure; the viewer gets a leaf or cigarette up close, and a tree or building focused farther off. Reflection can also refer to contemplation. My goal is for people to think, “What’s in that puddle?” Or, in the more abstract images, “What is that?
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