Extreme Shades Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

whiteness and blackness
recessful, and we have known
night and day
put the two together
it makes it three.
precise anti-sentimentality
refusing to seduce. empty space.
perspective wise.
‘The expressions are hard edged, the eye
as obdurate as metal'
cynicism is the price of survival.
the blind-alley photographer walking
into cul-de-sac, and scrambling to find a way back.
failures and making mistakes is an integral part
of an art.
the relational reality on an image is at work
a state halfway between creation and decay,
this is enough. the sequence is dramatic.

-On the photography of Michael Schmidt

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
June 12,2014.

Eagle Can Image: by Michael Schmidt @ Michael Schmidt Photography