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Andrew T. Melton


Camera Lucida - Inspirational Photography

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Camera-Lucida is a photographic agency dedicated to the veneration of the beautiful... 

Well, some of us just fail to make the Kierkegaard's leap of faith and get stuck at the plane of the aesthetical. So be it. As it turns out, current intellectual thought is more inclined to feed us with the miserable and the ugly:  we pore at the Bataille's ugly thumb, we are constantly fed with the sight of the miserable delivered over all sorts of visual media channels, we ululate with the discordant sounds of the contemporary-cum-classical music, we like the cacophony, we relish the deconstracted reality, we revel in an infinite referentiality and we find ourselves mesmerized with a lot of other quaint intellectual toys. Sometimes we go as far as to forget that the things with which we populate our reality are the very things that populate us - things that define and construct what we are and in which direction we eventually evolve (cogito ergo sum - sum ergo cogito...).
Hm.   Mimetic?   Asymptotic??   We???

Anyway, since (wo)man is a specular animal, photography has its say in what kind of animal we ultimately become.  It controls, so to say, the food that enters our bloated intellectual stomach (via the eyes, how else?). Ergo, I'd rather feed it on what pleases my eye/I than what makes it weep with the tears of an Andalusian dog. You can join me, or go your own ways, as you please...

Landscape

I travelled extensively throughout my career as a photographer.  Mostly but not exclusively in the Middle East.  Jump in to have a sneak pick of what you could see had you joined me...

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Performing Arts

I can't imagine lack of passion for performing arts - just as I can't imagine lack of passion for photography.   The former is deeply photographic in its nature.  You just had to be equipped...

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Black & White

Although color plays a significant role in photography, black and white photography is an important genre in itself.  Indeed, it is the oldest one to begin with.  Stripped of color, it's focus is special...

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Special Projects

Although photography quite literally "holds a mirror up to nature" just like any other art it takes a creative stance and by no means just composes, stresses or reflexes what is already there...

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WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU

Although not quite represented through the images collected here, I've been involved in photographing special corporal events, parties, family vacations and weddings in addition to participating in various competitions or exhibiting my work.  In this customer-centric work too, I prefer to let the fabric of life to unravel itself rather than do aggressive staging.. If you are interested in having me open my eye for you - drop me a couple of lines and we'll be in touch...