Sailboats and Swans OOP and clichés of a Californian

and clichés of a Californian paradise

it is not simply a matter of looking

ranging from stark studio shots of celebrities to environmental portraits of children

From the muted blue luster of the archaic cyanotype process

Sailboats and Swans OOP and clichés of a Californian"There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomforttheirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contestone guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she