Farwell photograph, hello song July 20, 2007

I was asked in an interview why we particularly enjoy looking at photographs from the past…

All pictures are relations to and descendants of and understudies to family portraits on the mantlepiece. So we are looking at what our family, relations, friend’s family and relations look like and get up to, when we look at photographs. The reality shows play on this.

Old photographs have frozen time – new photographs do too – but the old photographs show something that is gone forever and can’t be recreated.

This concludes my period blogging about photography. I now want to go in search of something not so far removed from the idea of photography as family and as home and as rooted within with feelings for the past. For the coming weeks I am going in search of “Songs In The Backyard” (a chapter in my forthcoming music book) looking for the inspiration, lyrical qualities and vision behind the homespun song.