Photos! Black and White Photos!
Over on Simongriffee.com, Simon (and I) are selling Pocket Print Packs. Inside these cute little packages—tied with a bow—is a collection of small eight archival black and white photographs. Two subjects are so far in the offering: Cats! and Rome. Each picture was taken by Simon himself, selected and printed with carbon pigment ink on 100% cotton paper, then cut and wrapped by me! Simon will be peddling the Pocket Print Packs through the streets of Rome and we will also be selling them from our front door in Bracciano; but if you can’t make it over to Italy you can buy one here!
Cats! : An ode to the animals that share our homes, Italian piazzas, cat barns, farms, fields, and specifically, the cats outside (and inside) our door. Cats have been part of human life for centuries. I believe that we live alongside them they alongside us for a purpose. I’ve eased life many a’times through observation of cats. The black and white photos Simon has chosen to create this Pocket Print Pack expresses their life in the piazza.
Rome : Rome, Rome, there will always be Rome. Before Rome there was Rome and after Rome there will be Rome. Rome is a city alive and ever changing. Each visit some new wonder revealed, some old awe-struck wall falling, tourists clambering, traffic fuming, some ancient dome billowing. There is no looking at Rome as if it were a subject. One must become with it. Simon also offers many more pictures of Rome—bigger than the Pocket Prints—at his new and constantly updated: Rome Black and White.
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Thanks for reading!...and as always, Henry Miller to finish it off:What everyone would like to do, and the artist more than anyone, I suppose, is to make a living by doing what he enjoys doing. An artist who is noncommercial has about as much chance for survival as a sewer rat. If he remains faithful to his art he compromises in life, by begging and borrowing, by marrying rich, or by doing some stultifying work which will bring him a pittance. – Henry Miller, An Open Letter to All and Sundry