Traveling Man (All photos by Terry Ratner)
By Terry Ratner
Photos as memory has a menacing side. Our own appearances and faces are now stored and saved in hundreds, thousands, of photographs: pictures made by ourselves or made by others.
Respirar
Our faces are becoming not only unforgettable, but inescapable.
Painted People
Photography is at the nerve center of our paradoxical memorial impulses.
The Bird
We need it there for how it helps us frame our losses, but we can also sense it crowding in on ongoing experience, imposing closure on what should still be open.
Fly But Promise You’ll Never Let Me Go
Farewell OBceans, until we meet again . . . .
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Wait. This sounds like OBserved is going away. I sure hope not. This was a great group of pictures and I hope The Rag keeps them coming.
Like em….thanks!
There is no way the Rag is quitting the Observed pics. I dig ’em.
We at the Rag dig’em too, but at this point, they’ve been nice icing on the cake – and it’s tough for us to be able to cook the cake. Our readers need to help support this online newspaper, as well as like our content, and folks who dig Terry’s pics need to step up – then and help us cook the cake so we can have icing. (There’s a PayPal donate button on our home page.)
Terry…
Miss your photo series…..will there be anymore?