Photo by Casey Fatchett
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I love it when people decide to take a bit of a risk. It doesn’t have to be something ground breaking. Just seeing the world their own way or assuming that viewers will get what they’re saying. It’s such an essential part of photography, yet so easily forgotten when it’s a day-to-day job.
By removing the couple’s bodies and the rest of the swing, Casey lets our imaginations fill in the rest. It creates symbolic account that is, ironically, more whimsical than most depictions. Had we seen more, we’d become anchored on what is literally taking place. The abstraction, though, turns the tables on what is normally a weakness of most swing images – the fact that the theme is so thoroughly played out. Instead, it takes all of our established associations with childhood and swings, and forces us to let those associations spill into the picture, suffusing it with that sense of wonder.
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