Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, Photography, Video, Cinemagraphs, New York City
Light is the universe’s constant. Time is ours. As photographers we study light versus time, making calculations and judgement calls for each photograph we create, manipulating light to play alongside the constant of time. From a macrocosmic view of the universe time is just an idea, but for us it’s a reality that never stops. We use photography to take a slice of that time, doing the best we know how to manipulate something out of our grasp.
A portrait of a photographer, Time by Chanel.
One of the most amazing things about living in New York is the world of unknown possibility that awaits outside your doorstep. You never know what you may find on a walk to a cafe, or what adventure awaits by taking a different commute home. You never know who you’re going to run into on Houston and Elizabeth st or what new thing you’ll discover by just being out in the world of Manhattan. I was running errands, walking through Union Square from Fishs Eddy to The Strand when I saw a darling man alone with his typewriter, very lost in thought. He asked me for a word, something with meaning, so I said “Photograph“, and this is what he wrote for me on that crisp fall day…
a favorite photograph,
to be shared again and again.
the light, the texture,
give it strength.
where is the eye?
the shattered remnant of a
perfect seeing,
the ghost of a life well lived.
the angles, the framing,
give it context.
where is the absence?
who has witnessed
such a heart-rending deficit,
such a need,
an urgency to possess?
where is the photograph?
does anyone imagine
they are less than sacred?
touch it up, then;
show what you can.
9/20/13