Michael Lewin

ABOUT ME

" All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's ( or things ) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt."

Susan Sontag

I've had a rich and diverse background with art as an enduring thread, running right through the centre of it. My first interest in photography started at a young age with a small 35mm compact camera shooting black and white film. Later I started exploring colour in its own right and built my first darkroom. Since then I have been preoccupied with many different areas of photography until I reached my current stage of concentrating on documentary work. This involves a focus on everyday familiar settings and scenes often working in a rather candid fashion. My aim has been to avoid imposing myself on the subject matter in order to allow its full resonance and poignancy to work through to the surface, hopefully in an authentic and naturalistic manner. Luck plays a large part in this process of serendipity and this is something I very much enjoy engaging with although it often throws up for my consumption, irritation and frustration where I feel a certain...