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i read some guidelines somewhere once for taking pictures of graffiti. this was several years into this documentation project, or whatever it is. only one thing really stuck with me from what i read: when photographing walls, no attention or space should be given to the surroundings. focus should include only what is painted. perhaps it stuck in my head so much because i completely disagree. browsing the flix on this site, the thumbnails are generally only what has been written. but if you click for the highres version, you'll see trees, buildings, structures crumbling, train tracks: space: effectively, a writer's canvas. i won't crop the environment from an image because of the context it provides. the impact of a piece is synergistically enhanced by where it is placed, the background that frames it, how the viewer sees it. context is half the delivery of a message. 2001.august |