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‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable’

Finley Peter Dunne

I like people

pigs

bees

whales

and trees

Sometimes in that order

I thought once

I was happiest taking

candid shots

of people

Mary Goldsardine calls that real-life cinematography

I like the phrase

Now I am taking more consented portraits

And that gives me a huge kick

too

Though consider this

"I truly believe some photos can steal souls. Or entire lives. BUT some photos can also steal the soul of the viewer. Yours can do both magic, with the benefit of leaving lives and souls enriched by the experience"

Not me

though I agree

Not with the praise

of my talent

only with the

honesty

of my attempt

I'm looking

not for the moment revealed

it's a good illusion

but for the moment

to think

a better one

If forced I'd call myself a sentimentalist for social change

My pictures don't always show that though

I should call myself a socialist because I guess that's what I am. A cross between the williams' Cobbett and Morris with a good dose of the charles' Marx and Darwin thrown in

Plus a fair measure of Einstein and his hero and mine Mozart - who Albert said had written the music which fills the universe

I am struck by the thought that our world is hallmarked by the random kindness of strangers Aaron Sorkin et al

This is a world I am happy to live in

To those whose likeness I borrow

I give you the only thing I have of value

My respect

For the flickr censors:

I am some what past the age of consent

I am not a child

Just child like

And one more thing

I am a working journalist once but no more for the BBC

And these are timid not bold times

So

A disclaimer - everything I photograph

or write about can only ever reflect poorly on me

Not my employers

Never on my subjects

I will try always to tell the truth

And that can land me in trouble

Sx

Perhaps for these reasons I am single