Sunday Edition: Dominic Turner and Chuck Kimmerle

PHOTOSNACK #384

Every Sunday, I contact photographers previously featured on PHOTOSNACK and ask them to send me their spontaneous thoughts, observations, reflections, or advice.

Today, I am sharing the messages I received from Dominic Turner and Chuck Kimmerle.

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Dominic Turner

My thoughts around the series and now book False Friends were really centered on the idea of interpretation and how it is that we all tend to - consciously or subconsciously - read or project our own subjective perspectives onto the world around us.

This I suppose is related to the phenomenon of pareidolia or apophenia, where humans have an inclination to attach meaning to, see patterns in, or even detect recognisable forms in random objects such as a face in the moon or cloud shaped like an animal.

In an effort to express this visually, I made these images to be simultaneously instantly readable but also quite ambiguous. All this is to remind myself that my highly subjective version of the world is not the only truth and that there are many different and equally valid perspectives depending on one’s angle of view.

Dominic Turner was featured in PHOTOSNACK #345.

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Chuck Kimmerle

Photography should be about more than simply finding beautiful scenery or applying creative techniques. Those are relatively easy and are often guided by the expectations of others.

When done correctly, photography should be about our connection and interaction with a subject. It should come from an internal motivation for exploration and understanding rather than an external demand for aesthetic beauty.

As someone who is, for lack of a better description, a landscape photographer it is not my goal to visually define a landscape or to make it recognizable to the viewer, but to discover qualities which transcend the physical characteristics of what lies before me.

Chuck Kimmerle was featured in PHOTOSNACK #340.

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Sunday Editions connect you with photographers whose work you previously explored through PHOTOSNACK.

I want to reveal some authentic parts of the people behind the cameras.

I don't ask them any specific questions. I ask them to share whatever comes to mind when they think about YOU, the newsletter readers.

It makes their responses genuine and personal.

I hope you enjoyed today's Sunday Edition.

Until next time,
Tomasz