Interieur d'un employé aux magasins du Louvre 1910

Sometime, somewhere, Eugène Atget took this photograph, 'Interieur d'un employé aux magasins du Louvre' with his large format camera. Imagine Atget in this quiet room, setting up his camera, adjusting the focus. The light is soft, almost blushing, catching on the surfaces of things. There's a stillness to the air, a sense of waiting. I wonder what he was thinking as he composed this shot, what stories he saw in the arrangement of objects. The mirror reflects a statue of a woman. She seems to be looking past Atget. This image offers a glimpse into a life, a moment frozen in time. I keep thinking about the framed images on the wall, and how they echo Atget's work. Photography is often about observation and selection, picking out details from the mess of reality and turning them into something meaningful. It's like a form of visual poetry, finding beauty in the everyday. And isn't that what we all try to do in our own way, as artists, as humans?