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ABOUT PETER LEIGHTON In December, 2010, I moved to Tumbaco, Ecuador, with the intention of focusing on photographic pursuits after spending the preceding 15 years immersed in the arcana of graphic digital printmaking and e-publishing online. Photography has changed considerably since the last time I wielded a camera. In fact, I'm not even sure the increasingly balkanized art of photography can be adequately described at the moment, and I certainly won't try to do that here. In some way, however, I do consider that a good photograph should endeavor to uniquely capture the times and places of individual lives being lived and, after viewing, should leave behind a residue of meaning somehow greater than the sum of the image's constituent parts. This is an ample target for those of us taking aim with cameras today. And we are many. A Google search on the terms: photographer+portfolio, turns up 26,400,000 links either directly related to individual photographers' sites or to sites devoted to their construction and/or to increasing traffic to them. Penny Prints Press, then, serves both as one of these many sites and as a vehicle within which to practice and sharpen my visual skills, all while engaging in a greater world of ideas and images–if only in a small way. I am, after all, only one out of several millions presumably active in this same arena. In this regard, given the enormous number of potential sites to visit, believe me when I say, many thanks for taking the time to stop by this one. peter |
