Here's a bit of commentary on the mundanity of contemporary photography projects and the tyranny of aboutness. Colberg makes the obvious point that any collection is going to be about something, but seems to have tired of collections of less than stellar images held together by little more than a (perhaps hackneyed) theme. On the one hand, he seems to be advocating for more spontaneity, on the other for greater attention to image making.
What struck me was:
I want to get the task to unpack what might be going on, instead of having it handed.
Which seems to call for not necessarily superbly crafted images, but images that - singly or as a group - ask for deeper or repeated inspection. Perhaps what he tires of is the obvious, and longs for is a bit more mystery.
http://cphmag.com/aboutness/
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