Amateur Photographer

Viewpoint Mike Smith

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‘The most banal and ordinary of locations can bear testimony to the extraordinary’

Photographs play with time and space. Time is simple to understand, as we set a shutter speed and record the incident photons on a sensor over a set period of time. Given that we are usually interested in (the lack of) change over human timescales, something

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