For the Love of the Photograph
For the Love of the Photograph
For The Love of The Photograph is an invitation to creative freedom. It’s 196 pages can be consumed cover to cover in one sumptuous feast or dipped into as source of inspiration every now and again. It’s a book of delights and insights illustrated with captivating imagery from countryside life in New Zealand. What you will learn from it today will be different to what you could learn from it in six months or a few years time, so keep it close and draw it in when your heart is craving more.
‘Let me cut to the chase. Buy Chloe Lodge's book, For the Love of the Photograph. If you are still looking for that #1 reason, it's built into the title of the book! It's a strong buy from me because you, like me, absolutely LOVE creating photographs.
Most photography books are pedantic and pedestrian. Lodge's book, within arm's reach on my desk, is conversational and convenient. As you read along, it's as if a dear friend was sitting next to you to explain everything they know about photography.
It's small form factor makes it supremely convenient to carry around town to a coffee shop. It's crisp printing and colorful photographs make the book very engaging. You turn the page and your are brought to a complete halt at Lodge's own gorgeous photography in and around her farm house in New Zealand.
My Takeaways From The Book
What did I take away from it? Be more present with light, to understand moment and gesture, to embrace color and to play to your heart's content with what and who you have right in front of you.
I assure you will be tickled by her observations and her insight. Having been in this business for about 20 years now, few things surprise me now. But Lodge's words reverberated within me, echoing as if I had said them myself at some point or another. It's a somewhat weird but welcome feeling.’
Seshu Badrinath