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Featured Photographer: Jeffrey Conley
Read: Conley’s work centres on abstraction and reduction, often removing scale and context so the subject becomes ambiguous.
Meaning: The images ask questions rather than provide answers, encouraging slow looking and personal interpretation.
Summary: I admire the discipline and intent behind his minimalism, but some images lose me when abstraction introduces too much visual distraction—provocative, thoughtful work that doesn’t always resolve comfortably.
Excusado (Toilet), 1925, Edward Weston
Edward Weston’s work reminds us that photography is not about subject matter, but about how we see. By photographing the human body, an organic shell, and even a toilet with the same discipline and seriousness, Weston collapses traditional hierarchies of what is considered worthy of attention. Each image becomes an exploration of form—curve, mass, surface and light—rather than meaning or function. Seen together, they challenge us to look beyond what an object is and instead attend to how clearly, and honestly, it can be seen.