Guy, Thanks. I like your assessment. The text and the selection of pictures were solid and engaging. AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book FREE COPY http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Tim Carpenter and "Rehearsals for departure" > From: Guy Glorieux <guy.glorieux@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, July 13, 2010 7:06 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Dear all, > > Someone sent me this reference to photographer Tim Carpenter and the web > site entitled "Rehearsals for departure". > > http://www.rehearsalsfordeparture.com/ > > I don't know this photographer but I was quite taken by his work and I > thought I would ask your reactions. > > There is no CV or other indications about who he is > other than a reference to the fact that his project "A most serene > republic," > was selected for the 2008 portfolio show of the Center for Fine Art > Photography. > > The site proposes 154 pictures grouped under 8 individual titles. > They are extremely lonely pictures, vernacular in content. > But at the same time, it is a portrait of a society that has lost its roots. > > Only one series depicts portraits of people but each are so frozen in their > attitude > that they are completely separated from the viewer. > > The last series, the one that won a prize, conveys so much solitude, > the non-presence of inhabitants that were forced to leave a long time ago. > > There is much of Robert Adams in this work. > > Guy
