Boris - no his name is Gueorgui- why do I want to call him Boris? because its easier to spell? Anyway, Gueorgui Pinkhassovi is led by light to his images, particularly in the beautiful book Sightwalk , viewable alongside an extended feature Just light like on Magnum. I like especially how the book has been laid out, each image resonating against its opposite counterpart. It makes me think about layout but also wonder whether I mind it having no conclusions. The sequencing is aesthetic, rather than drawn from a verbal idea of narrative. I always felt that it was wrong for understanding of images to mimic understanding of words, but photographs that have aligned themselves with 'meaning' are those which have become verbal descriptions- starving African child, barren landscape, typological portrait of person belonging to weird group. This doesn't seem right, but then this painterly approach has a very slippery sense of meaning, which is what I struggle with myself at the moment. It is much easier to feel secure with what you are doing when it can be read in an instant. Also post Marks and Spencers their description of the book seems a bit absurd this is not just any book.... '"Sightwalk" is more than just a book of photographs. It is a modernist Japanese photograph album created from Oriental fabrics and papers, and bounded by hand. It contains the work of Gueorgui Pinkhassov, a highly-acclaimed photographic artist, innovator and member of Magnum.' ahem!
