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Photographs stripped back until only the essential remains. The Complex Simplicity series by Martin Osner, and why simplicity is the hardest thing to photograph.
Taking things out of a photograph is far harder than putting them in. This series is the record of that argument: how little can remain before a picture stops being about anything at all.
It is the work Martin points to most often when teaching composition, because every one of these frames was made by removing something.
Prints and originals from this series are sold through Osner Art Gallery, not on this site.
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