1. Untitled, 2. Brenna AERO-EKTAR, 3. Untitled, 4. Mr Eagle 1
When I started posting these mosaics under the “1,000 words” headings, my intention was to pick images from my contacts at Flickr that stirred something in me, and that best fit the old idea of a picture being worth a thousand words.
Chase Allgood’s photos are a perfect example of what I was after… every one of his images, most often portraits, evokes something deeper than it’s subject matter implies. He makes the broken down, sad or haggard somehow beautiful, and the beautiful full of a pregnant sadness.
More than that, though, even the more static of his images seems to be capturing a moment, a person on their way from somewhere or to somewhere, or contemplating either the path behind or the path ahead. There is a space in each photo ready to be filled by the viewer’s imagination, and in each of those spaces lie the stories…
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