Weekly Post, Alli, Clare Richardson

These photos are from Beyond the Forest series by Clare Richardson. They consist of Landscapes and Portraits. The tone to them attract me and so does the subject. It seems as if she focused on one area and the people around them. The tone is very soft. To me, the have a quiet feeling to them, which is another thing that attracts me, also. Her portraits look as if she captured people in their surroundings/ environment. She has a combined set of portraits of those on guard and off guard. Most of her subjects are centered in the frame or take up the entire frame.

This series is said to be the descendants of the children that were led out of Hamelin, which is a town in Germany on the river Wesson in lower Saxony. The first page of this book she write about what seems to be a person. Someone names Mr. Pipe. The last paragraph she says, "The forest taken, the horizon is restored. It offers no shelter now. An emptying landscape. As claims are made, fences erected and the horizon breached. Only Mr. Pipe remains, the others have no gone, they spoke of a life beyond the forest." Although, I do not know who Mr. Pipe is, this paragraph I feel is a story of this series and words that can completely describe it.