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"Removing the anchor of a recognizable subject can leave some viewers wanting. However, for me, that’s precisely the allure of abstract photography"

Art of Seeing #85. Benedict Brain gets excited by abstracts in Andalusia in this month’s photo adventure

Digital Camera World · Dec 27, 2024

Roland Barthes talks about the punctum, that special detail, often small or unexpected, that jumps out and really grabs the viewer’s emotion, a poignant detail that pierces or wounds the viewer

Art of Seeing #84. Benedict Brain explores the wild Australian landscape and the theories of Roland Barthes

Digital Camera World · Dec 26, 2024

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. The very activity of taking photographs is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation exacerbated by travel"

Art of Seeing #81. Benedict Brain examines the tourist gaze and explores why we take ‘travel’ photographs with the help of Susan Sontag

Digital Camera World · Dec 23, 2024