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By: Hermin Abramovitch

My definition of place or landscape can be anything or everything. Where there is a space there is a place. Where there is a place there is always something filling it, matter. To the Mountains of Mount Fuji to the deepest abyss, landscape is everywhere.

Hermin Abramovitch’s skills compared to mine are no match. My pictures look like stick figures compared to his work. I admire his themes and his concepts that he tries to get though. These three pictures resemble. I like the imagination and simplicity he brings into his work. If you were to look through one of his websites, you will see lyrics or poems by Pink Floyd he quotes with a picture quite a few times. I think he is influenced by music and religion, from what I read from his blogs. The pictures that I found interesting the most were the three pictures above. To me, the one with the ocean and the huge basket resemble that some things are bigger than life. Perhaps the basket resembles a laundry basket and therefore appoints to environmental meanings. There’s always more than one meaning to his photographs, always.

Some of my photographs with the grain bin I tried to capture the same theme or event through the beach basket and light bulb photographs. Trying different corners and angles.

The only photograph I have that even comes close to this one is my water glass one. Using the basic principles he used with reflection and refraction. 

In what ways is he the same as me? Well he is different first of all. Like me and some comments I seem to get about my photography are angles. Close up and odd angles no one else would seem to view or want to look at. Second, are his ideas. Nothing seems to be boring, which is what I try to shoot for. Thirdly, meaning or hidden points. Like the laundry been explanation.

Lastly the simplicity can grab you every time. These pictures have basic objects like an ocean, glasses or laundry basket and the light bulb with a couple kissing in it. What makes it intriguing is the color and emphasis on the color and object.

A better example is the light bulb picture. The photograph brings together all the aspects I’m talking about: different, angle, meaning, and simplicity. A silhouette is the main focus on the picture, which is a huge emphasis on the picture because it’s surrounded by a broad warm color, orange. The light bulb represents an idea (like the light bulb that turns on in cartoons when they come up with a brilliant idea). I would like to consider these pictures a dumb down version of my work. I’ll use the grain bin examples. I represent angle, depth, vertical and horizontal lines. The idea behind it can be anything to my viewers. Hopefully, the detail is caught to vertical and horizontal lines, which resemble complete opposites, but going into the same direction, up.