Roger Passman
Roger Passman is a professional photographer located in Gilberts, Illinois. He concentrates on family portraiture and commercial images. His studio work reflects his interest in light and shadow while looking for the decisive details that tell a visual story. But that is only part of his story.
Roger welcomes you to his blog where he will post a new image every day unless he is sick or traveling and out of touch. This will result in posting around 300 images per year. Why not bookmark the blog and return often to see what Roger is doing in nature. Comments are welcome and may even start an interesting conversation. All we ask is that you register in order to comment. This is a measure designed to limit spam.
As a photographer I am concerned with finding moments that resonate with an imitation of the infinite. This is not so obtuse as it sounds at first glance. Let me explain. As I understand the idea of existence, the experiencing of life, I see it as being confined to an infinitely small NOW, a moment that cannot be measured nor articulated, for at the very moment of arrival it is replaced by yet another. What remains, what is left behind, of the experience of the NOW is a trace of memory, an ability to recall and respond to that trace in profoundly human ways (I won’t get into projection).
Because photography deals, for the most part, with fractions of seconds, therefore finite, measurable moments extracted from the stream of existence, it is a medium that comes as close to, without actually being, the infinitely small NOW. The photograph is, in this sense, a simulacrum of the NOW.
The response-ability of the photographer is to look into the NOW and attempt to freeze that NOW as an image. My images, whether broad landscapes or macro flowers, project my vision, my seeing, on the moment of experience. The act of snapping the shutter at 1/250th of a second expands the infinitely small NOW into a measured frozen moment, a crude imitation, a simulacrum of the moment of experience.
