Fine Art and Documentary Photography

Photography posted by the people who shot it: fine art, documentary, portrait, street and editorial, on film and on digital. An image opens at full size with whatever notes came with it, and most of what is here belongs to a series rather than standing alone.

The captions do a lot of the work. A frame from a long documentary project reads differently once you know it is frame nine of forty, shot over two winters. Photographers put the format, the film stock, the year and sometimes the reason in the notes. Where a piece was made for print, the layout it ran in often sits in the same album.

A print, a commission or an assisting job are all arranged with the photographer, whose email and phone sit on the profile every image links to. Looking and reading the notes ask nothing of you. Favouriting does, and it is worth knowing that favourites are public: what you keep shows on your own profile, which is closer to a citation than a bookmark.

Photography is the one discipline where the file and the object are different things. A scan of a negative, a darkroom print and a screen render of the same exposure are three separate results, and photographers say which one you are looking at. Video, audio and text can go up in the same album, which is how a slideshow with sound or a scanned zine ends up here intact.