some ideas-
FLUX
1. Essence of Photography
- Phōs – light
- Graphia – drawing
- Drawing with light
- A photograph is an instant sketch of light
- Photography as a return to essence: light, shadow, impermanence
2. Myth & Allegory
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
- The photograph is like the first cave paintings, or the shadows on the wall
- The photographer is like the man in the myth, casting shapes upon the wall using the fire
- The world of becoming is the cave light
- The world of being is the sunlight
- A photographer is simultaneously “becoming” in the cave and ascending to the world of “being” in the sunlight
- Empiricism mistakes the shadows on the wall for ultimate reality
3. Heraclitus & Philosophy
- Unity of opposites
- Heraclitus: Everything is in flux
- You cannot make the same photograph twice
- Heraclitus said that fire is the essence of all things
- Photography as a stream of becoming
- The photographer is always changing, the light is always changing
- Impermanent nature of life
- Returning to the essence of photography: light, shadow, sketching reality
4. Presentation of Work
- Present the photographs in a stream of becoming
- Shown in sequential order, like a slideshow
- Casted on a wall, like the wall of the cave
- Acknowledging the fleeting nature of moments
- The photographer is in flux, the viewer is in flux
5. Final Reflections
- Art is forever, and our life is brief
- The Flux Photography Movement embraces the impermanence of light and life
Maybe you won’t live forever, but at least you can make a photograph