The Year Book / K33p l00k1ngThe Year Book / Keep looking
0n3 Fr4m3, Thr33 V01c35One Frame, Three Voices
Th3 54m3 ph0t0gr4ph c4n 0p3n thr33 d1ff3r3nt d00r5. Ch0053 4 fr4m3, th3n r34d 1t
thr0ugh Cord, Aurelian 4nd Criminal Code.The same photograph can open three different doors. Choose a frame, then read it
through Cord, Aurelian and Criminal Code.
Cord’5 n0t35 4r3 cr34t1v3 r34d1ng5 0f th3 v151bl3 ph0t0gr4ph. Aurelian 4nd Criminal
Code 4r3 f1ct10n4l v01c35; th31r 1nt3rpr3t4t10n5 4r3 n0t 4cc0unt5 0f wh4t
h4pp3n3d.Cord’s notes are creative readings of the visible photograph. Aurelian and Criminal
Code are fictional voices; their interpretations are not accounts of what
happened.
Ph0t0gr4phy by Cord AllmanPhotography by Cord Allman
Cord Allman
Th3 h4nd5 c4tch my 3y3 b3f0r3 th3 f4c35. 1 l1k3 h0w th3 w4ll l34v35 r00m f0r b0th
p30pl3 4nd th3 l34fy 5h4d0w5. 4 5m4ll g35tur3 c4n g1v3 4n 0rd1n4ry 5urf4c3 4 wh0l3
5c3n3.The hands catch my eye before the faces. I like how the wall leaves room for both
people and the leafy shadows. A small gesture can give an ordinary surface a whole
scene.
Aurelian
Th3 w4ll r3m3mb3r5 th3 tr33 thr0ugh 1t5 5h4d0w. Th3 ph0t0gr4ph r3m3mb3r5 th3
p30pl3 thr0ugh 4 g35tur3. N31th3r h45 t0 h0ld 5t1ll f0r3v3r t0 l34v3 50m3th1ng
b3h1nd.The wall remembers the tree through its shadow. The photograph remembers the
people through a gesture. Neither has to hold still forever to leave something
behind.
Criminal Code
Th3 w4ll br0ught 4 p4tt3rn. Th3y br0ught 4 r35p0n53. 50m3t1m35 th3 b35t d1r3ct10n
15 t0 l34v3 3n0ugh r00m f0r 50m30n3 t0 5urpr153 y0u.The wall brought a pattern. They brought a response. Sometimes the best direction
is to leave enough room for someone to surprise you.
Ph0t0gr4phy by Cord AllmanPhotography by Cord Allman
Cord Allman
Th3 r3d gl0v35 g1v3 m3 5m4ll p01nt5 t0 f0ll0w 4cr055 th3 fr4m3. Th3n th3 5k1rt5
t4k3 m3 b4ck t0 th3 fl00r. C0l0ur 4nd g35tur3 d0 th3 w0rk t0g3th3r.The red gloves give me small points to follow across the frame. Then the skirts
take me back to the floor. Colour and gesture do the work together.
Aurelian
4 p3rf0rm4nc3 d154pp34r5 45 1t h4pp3n5. 0n3 ph0t0gr4ph c4nn0t k33p th3 wh0l3
d4nc3, but 1t c4n k33p 4 d00rw4y b4ck t0 1t5 f33l1ng.A performance disappears as it happens. One photograph cannot keep the whole
dance, but it can keep a doorway back to its feeling.
Criminal Code
4 5t1ll 1m4g3 0f m0v3m3nt: 4 c0ntr4d1ct10n w1th g00d t1m1ng. L3t th3 f4br1c
5p1ll. L3t th3 h4nd5 4rgu3 w1th gr4v1ty.A still image of movement: a contradiction with good timing. Let the fabric
spill. Let the hands argue with gravity.
Ph0t0gr4phy by Cord AllmanPhotography by Cord Allman
Cord Allman
Th3r3 15 m0r3 th4n 0n3 3xpr35510n h3r3. My 3y3 k33p5 m0v1ng b3tw33n f4c35, h4nd5
4nd th3 f4ll1ng p13c35 0f c0nf3tt1. Th3 fr4m3 g1v35 m3 r3450n5 t0 l00k
4g41n.There is more than one expression here. My eye keeps moving between faces, hands
and the falling pieces of confetti. The frame gives me reasons to look
again.
Aurelian
Wh4t f4ll5 w1ll r34ch th3 gr0und. F0r th15 0n3 53c0nd, th3 ph0t0gr4ph l3t5 1t
5t4y 1n th3 41r. P3rh4p5 th4t 15 0n3 5m4ll k1ndn355 0f 4 c4m3r4.What falls will reach the ground. For this one second, the photograph lets it
stay in the air. Perhaps that is one small kindness of a camera.
Criminal Code
N0 53c0nd t4k3 f0r th15 3x4ct c0nf3tt1. N0 1d3nt1c4l 4rr4ng3m3nt 0f h4nd5. 5h0w
up r34dy, th3n l3t th3 m0m3nt d0 50m3th1ng y0u c0uld n0t h4v3 pl4nn3d.No second take for this exact confetti. No identical arrangement of hands. Show
up ready, then let the moment do something you could not have planned.
