Assuming that photography could or should be used for something, it should be to secure the regular movement of the ordinary, just stop for a moment the flow of the ordinary. Not so much to keep the visual memory that take some fleeting image, positive, sad, ambiguous, sincere or spontaneous. Leaves, on occasion, to shoot photographs.
Art is useless - it even acknowledges that it - is what is said but nothing is probably also true. Photographs by Laurence Skivée helpful to me. I look at them and I do use. I'm not going to explore the world or a universe. I discovered a series of images that look the same holds in its spontaneity, its immediacy. We know there is a thought behind it is understandable given that it appears that appear simple and obvious, naive, that is to say who stands closer to the truth.
These are images taken with an iPhone or a Polaroid that hold my attention especially. I confront my way to see his. I'm thinking, 'Oh, I could not accept such an image. "I add, asking me: 'Why? . Why does one stop on this part of the sky blue? Why else have such a book? Is it because we love the show you want? Is it simply because it's what we're doing: looking at it, read it? The photograph is not used to remember. Photography is what we decide to show what one sees. Photography is the exposure of what we saw. The important, most important, is not that it was there, it could have been elsewhere. The most important is what we are doing what was there. Things, beings, landscapes, objects have been there is not indifferent with regard to photography, but almost. What matters most is the look because it is exposure, because it aims to show what he sees. I see through the eyes more than I know what the eye sees. This is trivial. But this relationship is the trivial value and usefulness of photography. Learning to see, perhaps. Learn to show, especially. Learn the attention. Not having to things, beings, landscapes, objects, a remote relative, distracted. Do not take lightly. No. Take the photograph.
This sky-blue above. And not another. This blue-blue sky above this latter. At the edge of which a row of clouds taking shape. A tree. A high-voltage cable that holds the landscape with his oblique.
 
(sky)
It this book that I have not read and I really want to read, touch or simply to be there in the image with the image.

(Herbert Huncke "Guilty of Everything")
Fingers trying to seize an area of light - as if the photograph was not only the writing of light, but the attempt to seize it, to catch it, as if there was something kaïros in photography in that it seeks to seize this opportune moment : a light moment, a moment of light.
 
(hand and light)
Or finally, because that it must choose and decide, this self-portrait to the iPhone, and in which the face is hardly, in which we see especially the fingers of the photographer, and bright spots, and persistent work of this show so special What to see photo. Red dot. Point blue almost white almost black. Colored circles that are superimposed on the face without hiding: they are looking for the next one, whether one follows the trail, we want to see more than anything, that cares , is being investigated to find out who he is, thus deepening the body of photography, and photographer.
 
(self-portrait, 2011)
Finally, all is this: a picture on twitter as the fragment of a photographic Laurence Skivée autobiography.
Photo: © Laurence Skivée.
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