Still Life With Paper and Feather, 2025

• Photographer
  John McManus
• Technical Info
  Pentax K3 Mkiii Monochrome; Edited In Photoshop
• Photo Date
  21.1.25

Edited deliberately for a modest print size (approximately 5x7" image area). I wanted to explore/play with concepts. A blank, aged sheet of paper, suggesting perhaps that we bear the mark of our historical influences even in the innocence of our beginnings; perhaps this is the last chapter to be written in what has been a long book.

Born in 1972; graduated from Macquarie University in 1995 (B.A. Mass Communications). Moved to the country in 1996. Began caring for my parents, in Sydney, in 2001. Have lived with bipolar disorder since an early age, am now receiving a pension. A highlight, photographically speaking, has been the solo exhibition I recently held at the Wollongong Art Gallery: "The Charm of Things Hidden In Plain View". Also love poetry and composing music in various genres.