EVENT HORIZON
(Nazraeli Press 2019)
Photographs and text by Eric Lawton
The wave is not the water.
The water merely tells us of the passing of the wave.
- Buckminster Fuller
The water merely tells us of the passing of the wave.
- Buckminster Fuller
Physics describes the Event Horizon as the boundary of a black hole, a one-way crossing between the universe outside and an undiscovered state within, the point of no return between one reality and another.
Like the Event Horizon, a photograph can be a medium for travel through space and time, where the observer can be at once here now and there then.
Einstein's theory of Special Relativity proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities; that there is no fixed frame of reference in the universe; that everything is in motion relative to everything else.
This book explores the nature of perception and reality. The photograph as a portal from one concept of reality to another, where form is a placemark for other, more fundamental elements, like the movement of trees manifesting the wind. Seen in this way, a subject may be less important for what it is, or where it is, than for what it can reveal to us of its underlying, essential nature: a glimpse of the infinite and the eternal.
Winner of 2020 International Photography Award (IPA)
for fine art photography books
for fine art photography books