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How do
the ruins
of an ancient church in the rural South Carolina low country and the
skyline of Manhattan relate to each other as silent structures?
St. Helena Island and New York City couldn’t be more dissimilar in
their audio levels. One is surrounded primarily by the calls of
birds and the sound of an occasional car passing by on a nearby two
lane road, while the other continually teems with the sounds of traffic
coming and going in all directions.
When
working with
the camera, the visual sense takes precedence over all others.
The noise or lack of it loses its importance when the mind is busy
concentrating on composition, movement and the quality of light on a
subject.
The
resulting
photograph documents a singular moment which speaks silently, allowing
the viewer to provide his or her own sound track – or absence of
one.
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