Special Guest Feature: Tom Seymour

Photo by Mikuláš Vedral, 15, Czech Republic

“One of my favourite photographers, Saul Leiter, made the chaotic streets of New York look like minimalist paintings. At art school, he taught himself 'ma' – the Japanese spatial concept of negative space: "The nothingness where, infact, everything happens," the historian Kōtarō Iizawa says.

So many photographers make the mistake of anchoring the most animating presence to the centre of the frame, of always seeking textbook saturation, contrast and focus. But Miki is happy to leave his silhouetted Toucan in the upper echelons of his frame.

The branches in which the bird roosts are charcoal black. Miki's image, then, directs our focus to the hazey burnt orange of the evening sun. It's a colour one can soak in."⠀⠀

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Tom Seymour

Tom is one of the leading writers on photography for numerous publications including The New York Times, British Journal of Photography, Royal Photographic Society, BBC, CNN and Financial Times, and a photography correspondent for The Art Newspaper and Wallpaper.

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