The photos

Photography, a journey through strange and familiar moments.

Olivia Parker's Pods of Chance. A row of peapods, alike in structure but alive in their variation, is fascinating. A row of plastic floweres identical in their structure but dead in their sameness has little appeal, unless their had been chewed by a dog, varied, altered by living energy.

Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville "Kiss by the Hotel de Ville" by Robert Doisneau. A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case it is iconistic and the whole world romanticizes the French manners of living based on this picture.

Some pictures don't need a purpose other than to make you smile.

Some pictures are political, like this one that won Horst Faas a 1965 Pulitzer Prize. The most terrible war pictures EVER. The father, although to no avail, pleads for a witness to his grief. The corporal, the only hatless one, provokes reactions in the rest of the soldiers with his relatively compassionate gesture. Maybe he also has a child, same age as the dead one in the father's hands. The little cottage in the background seems so lifeless and hopeless.

What is illusion anyways.