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Posted on by Edward Lewis
Looking at and taking photographs, I began to think that many images were about nothing. This was not a criticism, but an observation. I began to make pictures about nothing on purpose. And then I took this one and realized that the character 无 translates into nothing. The number in the image suggested a series.

Every photograph taken, or made, with intention is about something. By pictures about nothing I mean the subject of the photograph is not obvious, posed, cliche, staged, or conventional. The “nothing” photograph is more suggestive, conceptual, poetic, formal, or a combination of these things.

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