Robert Gingher


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Robert Gingher
Age: 64
City: Greensboro
Country: United States
Joined: Jan 2009

The Seed of Light

A luminous photograph is not just about light and shadow, its real or perceived subject, method, equipment, or any other specific ingredients anyone can name. It’s not about the peculiar chisel and marble you choose to define shadow and light, emptiness and form. It’s always about who you are and why you’re here. When a photograph steals your breath away, its beauty and truth point to something irreducible, something at once the source of and essential complement to this familiar world of form. Suddenly, like the Ancient Mariner, you feel you’ve stolen into the very soul of form. You’ve stumbled upon the seed of light and try to stay there because it promised deliverance from all paltriness; it implores you to share that light, tell that tale.

I love the beauty and truth a single capture can convey. One finds many such images here at redbubble.com. Maybe the spirited fellowship and support here should serve as an example for many another communities of artists.