ary snyder

Once more, walking in the woods with my dogs, I found some piece of trash that looked interesting: a sneaker shoe. Why one and not two if they’re always around in pairs? Who throws away just one shoe? And what’s more, why leave trash in the woods when you should take it to a garbage bin?

Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting to repeat the exercise of finding ways to “bring back to life” through photography that piece of garbage that had been taken for dead. Following is the series of 15 photographs that show the transformation from “rubbish” to art by means of a different way of looking at it and a camera.

As always, I kept within my own paradigms: I used only available light and no digital retouching with Photoshop or anyother kid of software. It’s all reflections, refractions, glass, metal, and materials of different colours to “paint” the light.

I ask of you, if I may, that you judge each photograph for what it is, not thinking of the rubbish that is the subject.  Do you like it? Does it stirr your emotions, your feelings, your memories?  Is it beautiful to you? Is it balanced?

Each photo should stand for itself, but each is also one of the 15 in the series. I’d love it if you left me a comment. Thank you.

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If you wish, you can see the first series “Death and resurrection of an object” in the entry: http://www.blog.arysnyder.com/?p=923