So with this new way of seeing how does it affect my old images. I have recently started working on the subject ‘Window on the World’ and went back to an image I took over 40 years ago of a boy looking up at the tower block where he lived see: https://whiteandblackphotography.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/we-all-live-in-little-boxes-little-boxes/
The individual windows in the block are your view of the world – constrained by the structure, especially when high up despite your view extending to the other city blocks. The idea of the image breaking out of the framework and the framework no longer being complete was how I began to re-view this image, no longer ‘we all live in little boxes’ but need to break free from my little box o even we have broken !
So here are the initial image and the work in progress – still in Black & White with the – I think – final image, below: a long way from pure black and white photography; and a long way from my earlier traditional social documentary work. I suspect the tower has gone now as too many were built in an unsafe [Rowan Point] way, and hopefully the boy has also broken free of the constraints.
I have used an outer border as without this the work could become a Mandelbrot piece …
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