6x6 one

6x6

A Quarterly Swiss Chapter eMagazine

Editorial

Richard N Tucker ARPS

One

Following the positive responses to the Zero issue of “6x6”, we are happy to present this first formal edition. Six photographers who are members of the RPS Swiss Chapter – even though some now live outside Switzerland – each show six pictures.

Colour

Through the long history of photography, the majority of images were monochrome and form rather than tone was the marker for quality. With the increasing access to colour film from the mid-20th Century colour came to dominate personal and private photography. It made slower inroads into commercial and art photography as most publications were black and white. Today we all have access to astonishing digital colour. Our traditional views about photography have undergone radical change over the last twenty or so years.

Colour sets mood, as in the quiet New England images by Candia Peterson and in the display of our manufactured detritus, cropped to art by Rob Kershaw. But colour becomes the dominant factor in the pictures from Hakim Boulouiz sometimes being the subject as well as the object. Chris Jenkins’ photographs of the ice racing at St Moritz, capture the frenetic movement of horse and man on the white snow and ice, making the riders colours even more dramatic. Urs Albrecht blends form and colour to be the picture. There is nothing else but the colours and the bubble shapes. Colour has become the subject. By isolating flowers from their usual context John Norris makes us see their form and colour anew.

CANDIA PETERSON LRPS - WEEKEDND IN THE HAMPTONS

HAKIM BOULOUIZ - STREET OF PARADOXES

CHRIS JENKINS - WHITE TURF

URS ALBRECHT LRPS - BASICS OF LIFE

JOHN NORRIS - A SMALL WORLD

ROB C KERSHAW ARPS - WASTEFUL ART?