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RGatward (19751) 2004-10-10 7:53

Interesting thought provoking crop here, taking the shot as much into 'artwork' as 'daily life', IMO. Good song association, which leaves this open to a range of interpretations. Very good work here.

ale (1819) 2004-10-10 8:45

Wow Jorrit,
this is breath-taking, I love it!
I'm agree with Richard, this is an artwork too, it's so evocative with the footprints in foreground that recall the couple in background...the light is perfect and the crop....my favourite!

Ebbe (9585) 2004-10-10 14:33

Note that the tracks in the foreground are single! A very strong composition, minimalism indeed! I like the low key here and the tracks and textures are superb. Very well done Jorrit!!!

kikvel (4772) 2004-10-10 19:51

you and your old lady again walking on the sand Jorrit...

;D

very few details here but a good shot...I see the track of the person who walked there and seems strange...an alien?

K.

erthmuffin (1537) 2004-10-11 12:34

very nice! great textures! i like how you can only see the bottom half of the people...

Luko (13902) 2004-10-12 9:21

Some reflections about this shot :

Do you know Larry Towell of Magnum? he's for me the guy who invented headcropping in photography : 10 years ago I had never seen that until I looked at his shots. With one of my friends we even used to call the fact of framing bodies without the head "doing a larry".

Nowadays if you don't crop a head, you're a looser, specially if you're into hardcore skate photography (I talked with a guy in a french forum, all of his shots had people heads cut, he said his life was dedicated to hardcore skate photography... wow, what a life :)...).

What amazed me with Larry Towell is that he had the right head crop, he really mastered the thing, he had a grammar of cropping. A quite simple but efficient message : the people you see in the foreground are not important, they're here to populate the picture -as context only we should say-, like a tree, a cloud, a bunch of grass or a rocky heap, then keep your attention on another layer of the pic.

What have we got here? the silhouetted people are attracting our reading like bugs on a lamp and I suppose that's what you expected from us. You wanted to create an original use of the space : well done, but why then cut the heads, it's senseless IMHO! It's like taking back something you wanted to give us!

This is to say I don't like you using gimmicks or tricks without a meaning behind... or get into hardcore skate photo ;-)...

oochappan (22032) 2004-10-15 11:11

I do approve that you try out new borders and refuses to conservatif sitting back to watch how others fall on their mouth. Even when you push here al estetics to the limits questionning itself, you search in a creative way for new borders with a inventivity and courage not everyone's capacity.
Comparing then to some standards that in the beginning were no standard at all I deplore as restriction in your search for a clear statement upto new standards.
This photo is not yet strong enough to be remarked as remarkable but it strong enough to indicate your way leaving conservatisme far behind. Your spontanous view is far above breaking or respecting rules. Please go on.

Galeota (10334) 2004-10-16 15:19

Actually I don't give a sh* about your photograph...well that's not completely true, this is an interesting minimalistic shot. But the real reason I'm coming here to leave you a word is because I've just seen your blond curles in your intro page! What a great photograph! Who would have said that behind that cherubin face was hiding a devilish soul like yours??

Bogdan (1641) 2004-12-21 4:55

one of my favourite songs. Don't have much to say about this phoho..it's great, but not for this track....as they must of had some hidden intentions, i suggest Nine inch nails -- Closer. Hehe.