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And there is Miall O'Leary of Millim again.
Sometimes it takes them months to have a new project, but when it arrives in my mailbox, it surprises me each time. In quality and beauty.

'The Diminishing Present' A New Publication By Edgar Martins

“The imagery of 'The Diminishing Present' is less a set of pictures than a series of moments in which spaces, mechanisms, signs, objects and events in the instrumentalist, modified landscape of the contemporary order have become independent of causation or function. It resembles a set of location shots for unmade films from lost scenarios. It constitutes a landscape without human figures, seen as though composed in the eye of the security camera - a seeing without a subject - of a landscape already arranged for surveillance. It evokes the coda completing Antonioni's L'Eclisse, with its new residential zones filled by autonomous machines and alien structures, or Doug Aitken's post-human video landscapes. But it is something more.

This landscape is actual, familiar, always there, and yet imaginary, unseen. It is the other place, which is always this place, in these things; it is there when our backs are turned, while we sleep, or as we drive past in the unconsciousness of speed, in the half-life of routine - it is the landscape that survives our absence.”

Photography as art, poetry and philosophy. Beautiful.
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