Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/08

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Subject: Re: Alex Webb
From: Oddmund Garvik <garvik@serveur.interliger.fr>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 08:20:03

Kari wrote:

<<The other side is the more abstract, wild work. How do you capture the
everyday existence in a noplace in the south? The mood that takes over
when it is 40C, no-one cares to work and the only boat to town is a week
from now? Or the opposite, a totally crazy market in the middle of an
inpenetrable jungle.>>

I know only some of the photojournalistic work of Alex Webb, which I find
quite interesting. David C. Turnley once mentioned something about "true
moments". He was chasing those moments when nothing happened, "instants non
decisifs". These moments put together intelligently may represent a
complete reportage. Humans and situations are even more "true", or more
human, if you want.

Oddmund