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21-MAY-2005

The Office

Canon EOS 20D
1/8000s f/4.0 at 35.0mm iso400 full exif

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Gilles VAILLANT		27-Nov-2007 22:08
A master piece, bravo

Guest		05-Feb-2007 11:06
nice image, great photojournalism style. V

Guest		09-May-2006 13:44
At the edge.Rocking back and forth between uncomfortable maybes.Choosing to be ignorant to the blaring screaming pace just beyond arm's reach, of his mind,of his life.Crumpled into a familiar discontent with this, among many moments.Like a fly half glued to the inevitable fateful web.Defiantly tugging between boredom and amusement of the situation.Wondering perhaps,if there is any other game.

...duncan		11-Feb-2006 14:04
Excellent image. I agree with you about doing street photography and well any kind of photography and putting yourself in the right position to get the shot that you want. I do that working with models. I let the model sit, walk around, do whatever he or she wants to do, from drawing a picture to eating their lunch. It sets them into a relaxed sense of being. Posed photography is well and good for some but it does not document life. Letting the model give you the emotion is what it is all about and not forcing it out of them. This image has nothing to do with luck at all. Luck is walking around seeing a celebrity and taking some happy snaps of them. One of the best children’s photographers on Pbase works like this, David Hoffman, another is Felix Rust and another is dR. You put yourself into the position to take the shot by being there and waiting for the moment to occur that you want to happen.

Guest		08-Jan-2006 16:44
Great shot - I won't attempt to equal Marisa's erudition, but this works so well - I first saw the curiosity of the child and the chair, and then my eye took in the looming traffic. It is amusing in its incongruity, but also very powerfull - excellent!

Kal Khogali		21-Aug-2005 01:36
You are deeply perceptive Marisa. He is awake and looking at me. The look is one of bewilderment, almost inquisitional. He had created his world right here, and I was entering it, and he was unsure why. Yes he was just being a child playing, but to me it was that he was being a child here playing where children don't normally play which makes this photograph. This was his back yard, he feels no threat, I must admit that as parent I fealt that threat for him at the time, but that was my message in this picture, for this boy, this was just like another day at the office. Thankyou again Marisa for your always challenging and informative reviews of my pictures.

Marisa Livet		20-Aug-2005 06:30
Kal, This pictures is the first one which deeply attracted my attention. I don’t feel too much at my place, adding comments here, because for my personal reasons, based only on my temper, I have a kind of “allergy” for forums and for too verbose disquisitions. I’m sincere enough to confess that if I find another time the word “ incongruity” or any derivate in a comment of a picture I ‘ll start jumping and screaming around in a total crisis of pernicious allergy ( smile). Of course I understand the context and I’m just partially kidding to try hard to express my own approach to things. So let’s come back to the picture, I think I have my own perceptions and I’m not sure they are right, but I don’t think the child is sleeping at all, I have the impression his eyes are open and he’s playing as many children do, with an office wheel chairs. I have already seen children in the same position exactly, they partially lie down on the chair and push it with their feet to move a little around. I think the child is looking at you, as children do when they are aware they are doing something not sensible enough. Of course the background look dangerous, but not so immediately dangerous and I don’t perceive the whole scene as highly dramatic. But the picture is fantastic, a good capture of the moment and an excellent choice of black and white, that often is more meaningful because colours of details can be distracting. I would have liked maybe a little more sharpen foreground to see a deeper contrast with the soft background, But the photo as an enormous impact and I deeply like it. All the best Marisa

Ana Carloto O'Shea		17-Aug-2005 06:37
Your problem with names is becoming a classic Kal ;-) You are right, to be able to make these kind of photos, one must seek its own luck and you've been doin that wonderfully Kal.

Kal Khogali		17-Aug-2005 03:25
I am having real problems with names Phil!! I even called Ana, Catriona the other day...I'm losing it, forgive me Alister!

Phil Douglis		17-Aug-2005 02:27
Well said, Kal. You are starting to sound like someone I know. And yes, Alister is a perfect example of someone who makes his own luck by breaking his butt and working at his subject until he knows it inside and out. (By the way, his last name is Benn, but I will pardon this slip.) Keep walking on the other side of the street, Kal. See life through fresh eyes, always.

Kal Khogali		17-Aug-2005 00:54
An example where context is not needed? Even in Shanghai this is bizzare. No context could explain it. Ana, you are so kind with your compliments here. Phil and I and Anna Yu have been having a discussion on the role of luck in photography herehttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/40174225. I'm convinced now that luck is the product of design as Phil says. I want to take the example of Alister Bennet (awesome pbase photographer - especially his birds & lanscapes). He gets up at 4:30am, trecks or bikes miles on to mudflats, observes the birds, gets himself in the right places and waits for the right moment). Those birds would never come to him, he goes where he can find them and he gets to know them intimately. We can walk around hoping for a good picture (I often do), but we have to go to a different place, or maybe the same place but a different time. I once read that most people who have car accidents have them within close proximity to their homes, in an area that they know well, usually on the way to work. Why? Routine, they stop seeing, move in to automatic, and their sense of the world around them is diminished. I'm going to keep walking off the main track, because when I do it, I experience something.....life as I have never seen it before!

Phil Douglis		16-Aug-2005 18:32
Ana is so right, Kal. An incredible photograph. It is incongruous four times over: how can one sleep so soundly in such a noisy place? How can one sleep so comfortably in such a strange, awkward position? What is an office chair doing in this street? And how can this child stay alive in such a dangerous place? All of us are asking ourselves these questions when we see this image. It does ask many questions of the viewer, and in Ana's case, urges her to take immediate action to save the child's life. You show once again the ability to respond intuitively to an incongruous subject and make it express human values through incongruity in an instant,

Ana Carloto O'Shea		16-Aug-2005 17:58
The office?? This image is almost unbelievable. I just want to reach out and grab that kid out of the aproaching traffic!! He looks so relaxed and oblivious to what ever is around him, that almost makes feel like he his in another dimension... But the cars in the distance look so menacing... It's a fantastic photo! One of those that we have to be ready in that split second or else we'll lose the photo forever. And you seem to be always ready Kal! This is a very moving image for me. Excellent work.