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If an image could speak, what would it say? A thousand words, a story?
Would it speak an emotional language? The truth, a lie, a metaphor?
I think the answer greatly depends on who perceived the image and chose
to make the photograph as well as who chose to carefully view the photograph,
that is “to view with care”. One photographer will see a given
subject one way while another photographer will see it in a different
and uniquely individual way. It is the same for any person who chooses
with care to view a photograph. Each person will be affected or touched
by an image in a uniquely individual way. Every photograph needs a maker
and a viewer to be whole. Or should I say to complete the cycle of creative
expression or camera vision if you will. First there is a recognition
of some importance. Then the bringing of vision into material form through
the realization of the final print. Then finally for the realized image
to be carefully viewed. What is important is for the viewer to allow themselves
to open, to give time to this listening to what an image has to say. Likewise
giving time to listening to the response coming from within the viewer.
There may be similarities in the quality of what is spoken, but what transpires
between a given image and its different viewers will always be unique
and personal according to the relationship the viewer holds with what
is conveyed by the image.
After 30 years of his own work with camera vision, my father once told
me, “photograph what you are drawn to, what moves you, and the image
you create will move others.” I continue to find great mystery and
wonder as I walk through this world. These images before you represent
a part of my collected experiences and impressions over the past twenty
years. They are a part of me, a part of my inner life. They reflect the
outer world we share. My hope is that the images will attest to my love
for photography and to the gratitude I feel for the opportunity to give
voice and expression to my journey through this life. Out of a connection
with spirit, my vision evolves as I attempt to gain better understanding
of the great mystery within and all around me.
I offer you these 20 photographs spanning 20 years. Please take time to
open, to listen and to see with care, for all which is carefully seen
becomes a part of our experience, it becomes learned.
Aryan Chappell
Spring 2006
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