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Ordinary things become more interesting with each passing year Mark Power

The picture titled Clocktower Café showing the menu teaches us something of how we might document the times in which we live. For the photographer, who I'm guessing knew the young woman, the passing of time will be evident in the way she has since aged (for the camera freezes anyone or anything it photographs in a specific time and place). But to the rest of us, who don't know her, it's the prices on the menu which fascinate. What we learn from this simple example is to always think about photographing friends and family in some sort of context. The title of the photograph suggests that the photographer recognises this. (Posted on 08/11/2011)