I will be arriving about one month too late to see Paris Photo 08 this year and am consoling my broken heart by salivating over the online high-resolution preview of 200 works of one of the largest photography fairs in the world. The fact that Japan is this year’s guest of honour made my heart ache that little bit more.
The images are so arresting and inspiring that I’m getting an urge to duct tape my camera to my body and keep taking photos until I can take a shot that is one thousandth as beautiful as what’s seen in the slideshow. I’m always so amazed and in awe of artists who are able to evoke such powerful emotions and reactions from their audience. If only I could steal their talent, bottle it up and have it with a shot of vodka.
I wish I could have had the chance to see these prints up close, but I guess I’ll be in complete art overload once I’m in Europe anyway.
(Note: The photo above is an old scan of a touristy film shot I took during my last visit to Paris in 2004. It’s got me reminiscing of the days of life without a digital camera and being really really stingy with my film!)
