War 6

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Comment by Alan Greig on September 3, 2012 at 9:47am

Many thanks for your comments - I appreciate your feedback

Comment by Resident Curator on September 1, 2012 at 6:55pm

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It’s interesting to look at your side by side images about war in contrast to the Brighton Beach scenes at dusk.  There’s a hazy dreamy quality visible in both series, as the subjects are bathed in either cool or amber light. My favorite in the grouping is War 6.  Its hushed field of buried flags lets me be quiet, if just for a moment, with my own private thoughts about war, flags, nature and death.  It literally feels as though the bright artificial lights of neon and cameras in the previous photographs have melted away into blue shadow, speaking volumes in the unmoving stillness.  The small flags, overcome by the snowy drifts, point upwards to the trees and filtered horizon, creating a formal rhythm of repeated points. Brighton Dusk 3 is slightly less focused.  Its rhythmic repetition of the curved iron wall reaches around the edge of the horizon, pointing to bright white light above. The scene also projects a soft emptiness, though unlike War 6, is not devoid of a living human presence.