An hour by the Sea

February 28, 2014film, family, personalsarah blackComment

One third of my family, and an hour by the sea.

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I’ve got about a half a dozen things half started over here: poems and writings than may never see the light of day, books part-read and theories half drafted and endless lists of ideas and thoughts that are important to me, ones that I’d like to sit with and explore and doodle about and just generally research and ruminate on for a few hundred hours. Trouble is, I still don’t actually have hundreds of hours.
But of all my to-dos and should-dos and want-to-dos, this is what more often than not floats to the top, these photographs that I make for people. Simple, heartfelt family photographs that with the greatest ease and gentlest voice persistently remind that deep doesn’t have to mean anything other than deeply felt. It doesn’t have to be dark, or complicated or intense, or overtly artsy or be otherwise signposted as deep in the ways we have come to expect depth sometimes to present itself.
These photos have taught me, and continue to teach, so much.
Going deep is paying attention, it’s taking the eye we reserve for high art and letting it fall on the scene right in front of us. It’s the little pile of bricks you have witnessed magic in, it’s the ever-expanding space between their small warm bodies and yours, it’s the little tears you mop up because life is confusing and unfair and tricky sometimes, here as anywhere.
If we do one thing well, let it be this, and then if we also find time for the higher things, the literature and podcasts and works in oil, let them be informed by all the things we already learned at home.
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Happy Valentines.
For yesterday.
Bc 24 hours behind is how I roll. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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This phase. .
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Doing summer right (Sicilia, 2017).
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The still point.
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Thankyou summer holidays, thankyou. .
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I have blogged a very precious at-home new baby and family session, and as always, have tried to write a little about why these feel so important to me. .
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16 and everything beautiful.
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First roll from my Hasselblad 500CM, very happy, can’t wait to play some more!! .
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Sunshine and shadow. .
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