Image Description: A black and white portrait photograph showing a young girl swinging on a flying fox. She is wearing a spotted jacket, shorts and trainers. Her legs are stretched outwards and she is looking just off the camera. Her shadow is reflected in the playground sand below.
Julie Berman talks about the photo
Transcript
Moving, static, and abstract.
I really like the shapes…ermm…it almost looks like a guillotine? I don’t know why I like that!
I really love the shapes and the starkness of it…and I love the shadow, the shadow makes me think of like a spaceman in out of space… sort of in this disembodied placenta type thing. Floating – which she is, but obviously on the ground.
Its funny it’s a moving picture, and yet its very static, and I quite like those two juxtapositions of moving and yet static, and I love the shapes and I’m just really into shapes in photos.
I want to go and have a shot. I just, I was really, I think partly because it reminds me of myself as a child, I absolutely loved rough and tumble outdoorsy type things – swings and anything that moved. I mean, nowadays you know, that would be a health and safety nightmare although there is sand underneath. And I like that. Its not sanitised by modern times, its quite rough, basic, and something that children love to play on, the more dangerous the better.
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