{"id":22787,"date":"2020-02-08T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=22787"},"modified":"2020-02-08T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T03:40:53","slug":"found-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=22787","title":{"rendered":"Found images."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I sometimes wonder about all the photographs and where they end up.\u00a0 This curiosity can be sharply brought to the fore when I encounter discarded images from someone else\u2019s archive.\u00a0 These mostly take the form of slides because how do you stumble across the work of a digital photographer that never printed.\u00a0 There is a melancholy attached to discoveries like this.\u00a0 Who was the photographer?\u00a0 Were they proud of their work?\u00a0 Does their work matter, does mine?\u00a0 Looking at my binders of negatives I have to consider \u2018what if they all were destroyed\u2019. The fact is the world would go on none the wiser and no worse off.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong I enjoy photography, it is just in this image saturated time,\u00a0 I need to keep what I am doing in perspective.\u00a0 I am not changing the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So it was with these slides that I came across in a thrift store piled in a shoe box. Each roll carefully noted by the well travelled photographer.  I chose one slide box marked from Paris and left the rest for others to discover.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a flip side to this and that is that as time passes even otherwise mundane photographs\u00a0 take on significance through the weight of time.\u00a0 The \u2018Fragments of Vancouver<\/a>\u2019 archive of images I am going through is a prime example of this.\u00a0 People frozen in time 70 years ago as they walked passed a Vancouver street photography company photographer.\u00a0 The way they dressed the way they responded to the photographers presence stored on rolls of film like a time capsule to be opened at a later time or lost forever depending on chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I will continue to photograph and sometimes print because its meaningful to me at least in this moment.  And someday maybe someone will come across one of my images and question if it matters.
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I sometimes wonder about all the photographs and where they end up.\u00a0 This curiosity can be sharply brought to the fore when I encounter discarded images from someone else\u2019s archive.\u00a0 These mostly take the form of slides because how do you stumble across the work of a digital photographer that never printed.\u00a0 There is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22794,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787\/revisions\/22794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}