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Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Last night was the opening night of my Africa: People and Paraphenalia exhibition in Cape Town and I thought it went down really well - loads more people came than I expected. What I found really interesting to see were people's reaction to different photographs. Some photographs really stand out to some people more than others.
A lot of people loved this photo:
I considered not including this in the exhibition as my husband
vehemently hates this photograph. To him, it's a skanky couch, in a
skanky alley, surrounded by dirt and mud (he is colour-blind so maybe
that explains it). I personally love the the bright red couch and
yellow splash of paint contrasted against the dull brown background. I
find it humourous that there is this opulant couch (by Ethiopian
standards!) in the context of African simplicity.
This is the great thing about art and photography - everyone's
perception is different; it's a subjective thing. It's why I usually
include a very wide selection of photos in all my wedding and portrait
shoots. It makes sense that people are more subjective regarding their
own image and see completely different aspects in a photo of
themselves. What I think is a fantastic photo of someone, they may hate
because of something they've seen that I don't even notice. Everyone
is always more critical of their own image too. So I'll always include
a lot of 'similar' photos for this reason.
On the exhibition side of things, it will be running for 3 more
weeks until 27 June 2007. Thanks so much to everyone who made the
effort to drag themselves out into the cold last night to come and have
a look! Click HERE for a selection of what's being exhibited.
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