The Inner Path of Photography

We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.

New Photo-Zine for the Mind and Soul – Jason Eskenazi

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“Dog Food for the Mind and Soul” – (NY Times, Jason Eskenazi, new zine)

I love this new photography and writing creation – highlighted in the New York Times “Lens” blog – a newspaper started by the very talented Turkish photographer Jason Eskenazi and friends – other international photographers and writers – that came out of a frustration with the limited scope of how photo students were being taught to see and think.

I’m inspired by it all – the overall concept, the very personal approach of  the interviews (and how they are handwritten), fun attitudes, and – most of all – the fact that this zine is meant to be touched, handled, passed around in its physical form, not as a digital screen product.

More! More!

(Yes, of course, I want a copy!)

“Run”

 

Bosphorus, Birds, Fog

Run my dear
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision

Of your beautiful heart.

        –  Hafiz

Image: “Bosphorus Birds” © Heidi Straube 2013
Larger image – Inner Path Photography website

“Flying”

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I want to fly
he said,

And so he did.

As we each can
In our own unique way.

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Images: “Skaters Fly” – Lee & Joe Jamail Skatepark, Houston, TX
© Heidi Straube 2013
Enjoy a short 2-minute slide show –  more images, 2 styles music here…

“One of Those Poems”

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Write some more of those poems
he said dreamily
I love your poems, they are very beautiful…

So here is one
For You.

*****

I love how you always find the
Laughter
In the midst of life’s hardest situations

Always a playful story to be spun
That brings the
Light
back in.

What god have you descended from
to make You be
so Wise?

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