Andre Kertesz.

Alex Kertesz was the one photographer in my research that resonated with the work of “Pine Point” the interactive website by Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons. The images give the feel of old and unattainable; there is a sort of melancholy within the pictures that sums up how Pine Point is pictured on the website. It’s old and people miss it. It almost feels like going back in time. Kertesz’s pictures do just that. They usually sum up a style or social norm that doesn’t exist anymore. For example, you wouldn’t find those glasses around anymore or a horse-drawn carriage anymore. Everything with the pictures is not only correctly angled and aesthetically pleasing, but the usage of light is just perfect. The shadows cast themselves in the correct ways to provide tone to each picture. This is something that the Pine Point website can’t have; it’s too real. There wasn’t enough time to manufacture shots and be technically correct. Some of the pictures are blurry, out of focus, etc. In that case, though, there is knowledge of what happened; knowledge of being a local. In the work of Kertesz, there isn’t that feeling of “knowing somebody” everyone just feels like a stranger. The distance is too high.