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Jon Frank about Musica Surfica<br />
My name is Jon Frank. I am 38 years old and live in Victoria, Australia. Life is<br />
quiet this near to the bottom of the world, which suits me fine. The sea down<br />
here is gin clear; the colour of a green bottle filled with white spirits and held<br />
to the sun. After being on the road for a while, often travelling in the close<br />
company of others, there is a refreshing brand of solitude to be found on my<br />
return home. It usually takes me a day or two to get used to the quivering<br />
verses of westerly cloud ripping past my kitchen window or the chorus of a<br />
passing shower strumming on my tin roof.<br />
I began photographing at age twenty. The moment I held the camera up<br />
to my left eye the world looked better, like it had been waiting to be framed<br />
inside a rectangle. I had no real ambition to become a photographer but<br />
with my chosen career as a bass player heading resolutely downhill I began<br />
shooting pictures of what I knew, which was surfing and the ocean and<br />
waves. I realised that here lay a possibility to record how I saw my world,<br />
and to do so in a unique voice.<br />
For most of my career I have shot video and motion picture film as well as<br />
stills photographs. I don’t think there is too much difference in my approach<br />
to photographing in these formats, maybe some slightly different positioning<br />
while shooting in the water. My primary objective is always to try and capture<br />
the world as naturally as possible. The greatest pleasure for me is to just<br />
go about making pictures quietly and unnoticed. I prefer to swim out and<br />
shoot alone.<br />
There have been times when the phone may not ring for a few months so it<br />
pays to be diverse. I have colleagues who work day jobs or night jobs or shoot<br />
fashion, weddings or advertising to get by. I have been fortunate enough<br />
to be able to get through within the surfing world. Weeks can pass without<br />
me picking up a camera but I am usually thinking about photographs or<br />
seeing them flutter by as I go about day-to-day life. Most opportunities slip<br />
PROGRAM / PROGRAM<br />
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Foto Jon Frank
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