About jonathon

Though i don't have a great understanding of theoretical photographic issues I do like to try and think about photography critically, it is something I can't seem to help doing.

In someways I like this following passage by French Philosopher of media and communications, Jean Baudrillard. I do find this extremely helpful with a kind of inner logic, I suppose.

Jean Baudrillard - Photography, Or The Writing Of Light

The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world. It is a paradox that the lack of objectivity of the world is disclosed by the photographic lens (objectif).2 Analysis and reproduction (ressemblance) are of no help in solving this problem. The technique of photography takes us beyond the replica into the domain of the trompe l'oeil. Through its unrealistic play of visual techniques, its slicing of reality, its immobility, its silence, and its phenomenological reduction of movements, photography affirms itself as both the purest and the most artificial exposition of the image.

Photography Equipment

A number of my photos have been converted from film negatives to digital files. These photographs were originaly taken with a Canon EOS300 film camera. The rest ve been taken with a Canon G7, which is the only piece of equipment that I now have.