Over ddm fotografie

"DDMfoto, I really enjoyed looking at your work.

I particularly like the strength and ambiguity of these two:
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Because anything could be happening to her to cause such an emotional reaction."

..."Je foto's hebben dat bijna onbenoembare dat mij raakt.

Bijvoorbeeld "de sigaret" ! Wat een wijf !!! Wat een kracht ! Waanzinnig !!!
Hoe direct kun je zijn ?
Je foto's hebben een eerlijkheid, ruwheid die mij laat lachen, laat huilen, stil maakt en me enorm stimuleert."
Ik dank je daarvoor ! (DH)
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"It is certainly a collection of beauty, and I enjoy the multiplicity of the subject matter, and I find it to be well balanced, yet diverse.
THANK YOU so very much for sharing it."

"The real and the fictional world can be considered as the complex relationship
between the material and spiritual world, the temptations of the body
and the spiritual duties of the soul.  These two extremes are strongly interrelated in human life
and should not be seen as opposite poles or separate worlds.  DDM Fotografie creates a Japanese atmosphere in his work, not only by using typically Japanese objects such as kimonos, fans and rice or Oriental-looking women. These are obviously Japanese, or rather Oriental, attributes, but still just properties of his work. These Japanese characteristics merge strongly with the ambiguity of his images.  The Japanese have an unspoken agreement not to regard paradoxical matters as paradoxical. Contradictory elements are presented on a common level instead, camouflaging them with a certain vague ambiguity. To Westerners, ambiguity is opposite to clarity, but the Japanese perceive this vague ambiguity as a means of understanding the many layers of possible meanings. These characteristics can also be recognised in his work, strengthening the sense of Japanese aura.  
(Yuri Fujimoto) 

 "Behind the facination any mirror, object or human, is able to provide, rests the (perception=)reality that what you see is never 100% what you expect, what you get, what others get. The reflection hardly equals perception; the reflection presents at least one outstanding feature that catches your eye and requires acceptance, if not comprehension--for starters--, comprehension (=need to understand) being a more powerful driver than acceptance under human terms and ways, unfortunately.  Basically, it is unclear, to most of us, whether (perception of) self is untrue or (perception of) reflection is. That is what really catches the eye. The drive to identify the real self, as if there would be only one (perception of) way of the self. Human nature at work, once again.  This photo, for example, could be just a snapshot, even if sold/ positioned as the self-portrait of a visual artist. Yet it is my view that decides what this (perception of a) photo is, (perception of a) mirrored image is, irrelevant of caught in the act or directed.  The boy is just a happy boy, in (again, a Buddha state ;), unaware of his larger than life nanosecond. The reflection, though, is there, fully there, embracing existence, not just hitting the water. The reflection shows the joy and hope we all hold in some corner, and the catch is... that we are both the boy and the reflection, simultaneously. Nothing fancier. Or, if a tiny bit fancier, that we have the potential to be either, mirrored or not. The choice. For all those majority instances when we're not mirrored. When we think we're just one. When we refuse to think we're so many more, and we're only comfortable with some of them getting mirrored ;)  I must add that the photo is a self-portrait of Paul... I've a weakness for Dutch guys... Perception rules.
(Mirona Iliescu)

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