Behind The Photo

Discovering photography changed my life. To me its power reaches far beyond the frame and I want to show you why here. Behind the Photograph champions photography as an antidote to a disposable visual culture.

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11Photographs
3Routes
1Image at a time

Three ways into the image

Choose how you want to look.

Start by winding the film to let chance choose. Below that, follow a recurring photographic meaning or scan the complete contact sheet. Each route offers a different way into the thought, feeling and craft behind the frame.

Set the film in motion and stop at an image you might never have chosen for yourself.

A Decisive Moment at Barnstaple Frame 06 - Chance & timing A Decisive Moment at Barnstaple There is an element of chance in photography that no amount of preparation can control. Open this photograph

Choose by theme

Discover the meaning behind a photograph

Select a word to gather the photographs connected by that idea. If several essays share it, they will appear together below.

The complete contact sheet

Choose visually where you want to go.

Every Behind the Photograph image is held here like a photographer's contact sheet. Choose a square because of its light, its subject or simply because something in it asks you to pause.

The complete visual archive

Photography is more than a stream of images. It is attention made visible - a way of being present, remembering and seeing the world differently.

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