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January 4, 2008
Melbourne has a lawyer's precinct the around Williams/Lonsdale streets area in the CBD, and I happened to be passing when the legal fraternity were gathered outside Melbourne's Supreme Court to celebrate a significant legal event.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, lawyers, Melbourne CBD, 2007
I never found out what that legal event was. As I had run out of film and was running late for an appointment I had to move on.
That's street photography isn't. An isolated moment in a world of flux and flows. The moment is plucked out of the flow to stand on its own as an isolated image. The attempt to make sense of a moment - to “think the present historically” as Walter Benjamin put it --- is very difficult. Does an image enable us to do this?
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I like those public space type shots that are a snapshot of human activity. One of my favourite photographs that I took, even though it isn't well composed and is grainy, is the San Mateo karaoke bar one for the same reasons. You can go from face to face and wonder what they are thinking.