The Showman

Played the first gig with Stray Light today for a very long time at an improvised music mini-festival (although we were determinedly playing songs with, like, structures and singing and everything). It was odd to play in the middle of the day, but quite fun despite a few clunky moments which showed how out of practise we are.

Forgot to mention in the last update that the new Shots has a feature on Debbie Fleming Caffery, whose work is really nice and well worth a gander. I'm always interested to see people working with the square format, I've been using it for a year now and it still seems like a slightly mysterious thing to me. I know Hasselblad used to market 6x6 as a sort of Zen perfection of form, but it can be a bit unsettling too - partly because we're all so used to seeing in rectangles, but also I think the square constrains placement of forms in a really interesting way. And because all dimensions are equal I think the Square takes a few extra moments for the viewer to process (and often for the photographer to compose too).