This article, Adam’s photographs, Josh & Irene’s perceptive eyes in seeing and sharing Adam’s work, plus Josh’s line of questioning in the interview, signal a refreshing change in direction for LuLa. It’s not a hard right or left, but enough of a shift to provide a new direction toward potentially unknown destinations – which is a good thing, in my eyes.
It is satisfying to read about someone “adding grain” to printed photographs, to make the images “less digital”. Equally satisfying is learning of someone going out and confidently shooting “with only a 50mm lens”, not the first nor the last, but, in both cases, counter to mainstream photography. I don’t do either of these things myself, and take other routes to break the bonds of digitalness and overburdening oneself, but learning of Adam’s vision, technique and thought behind it is helpful.
Too often, in my opinion, we are bombarded with “latest-greatest” in terms of both equipment and destination. This happens regularly on Lula and, over the years, helped define it as a leading digital photography website and will, most likely, continue to be a feature of the site in this continuing era of advert-driven revenue.
However, it’s also refreshing and helpful to be reminded that photography as art is not equipment and destination, but light and perception. This, too, has been a feature of LuLa over the years, and one I hope will be expanded.