Reading this piece of historical text on photography makes me realise one of the most basic function of photography; the social function.

Most of the time I’m not being aware of this kind of social function. At times I think that photography would be part of me trying to create my whole individual, closed, safe, personal world. Photography is a private conversation between the world and the photographer. And then this conversation has become a liberated kind of conversation. The photographer gave birth to the life of the photograph in-itself. Once the photography is being produced, it’s not up to the photographer to determine the life (and death) of the photograph. It has its life of its own.

This matter is being deepen by the condition of online sharing. The life of the photograph gains its own private life through the network; the Matrix you might called it. The network becomes the...

Today I’m setting up the Ricoh GR with the Fader ND filter. Strolling around my neighbourhood, the overcast-with-no-sun-visible lighting condition making me to experiment with up to 2 seconds exposures.

Here is the Ricoh with the filter setup:

The first attempt on the setting is using an 8 seconds exposure shot. In a natural lit room with a very subtle window light, what could be better than doing a selfie test?!? haha.

[f/10 8s iso3200]

I hit the road and coming up with these three trees at the sidewalk.

[f/6.3 1/30s iso400]

Then, a few shot taken from an artificial pond near my workplace. Some panning could be nice, I think… here they are:

[f/8 1s iso400]

[f/14 2s iso400]

on a more stable ground: (I don’t carry a tripod)
[f/14 2s iso400]

What I do like doing such kind of experimentation is at times I need to trust my intuition on the image making process.

[f/16 3.2s...

Few days ago I choose to print some of my summer shots from Venice, let’s see how it’s turn out when framed and hanged on walls. Shot using the ‘old’ and trusty Fuji X100, these images shows how the camera is one of the best travel cameras.

Can you live up the delusional space of your everyday life? That’s what I had in mind… and it’s still stick to mine today.

This particular exhibit as part of Venice Art Biennale 2013 intrigued me. I’m not looking up to the original artists and art’s title and intention, so obviously the credit goes all to the artists, but these are my photography impressions for the artwork.