I loved you the moment i saw you - book reviews
Landfall online - Slipping Glimpser by Georgina McWhirter
"Photographer Peter Black understands that every moment counts, that there’s nothing too small to matter, and that what perhaps matters most is those in-between moments — the ones occurring before and after the taken photograph. . Captured in the frames of his new photo-book, I loved you the moment I saw you, are glimpses of humanity which gain poignancy from their very ordinariness. And Black’s eye always spots the serendipities." read more
NZ Listener - The art of the casual by Anthony Byrt
"Not all photographs are taken equally.
Contemporary photography is one of those genres that can get people’s teeth squeaking. Believers see it as a fraught environment in which aesthetic decisions need to be delicately balanced with complex representational issues. But for doubters it’s an over-theorised field that analyses far too deeply the act of pointing a camera. Two recent New Zealand books demonstrate the pleasures, and dangers, available at each end of this spectrum." read more
NZ Herald - Peter Simpson
"Peter Black's latest collection of photographs of street life in Wellington - a subject he has made his own through a succession of books and exhibitions over the past three decades - begins with the image of a man seen only from below the shoulders on a city pavement, stooping, hand outstretched, to pick up a portable car-seat holding a sleeping baby." read more
NZ Books - The difficult decisive moment by Tom Elliot
"Photographer Peter Black understands that every moment counts, that there’s nothing too small to matter, and that what perhaps matters most is those in-between moments — the ones occurring before and after the taken photograph. . Captured in the frames of his new photo-book, I loved you the moment I saw you, are glimpses of humanity which gain poignancy from their very ordinariness. And Black’s eye always spots the serendipities." read more
NZ Listener - The art of the casual by Anthony Byrt
"Not all photographs are taken equally.
Contemporary photography is one of those genres that can get people’s teeth squeaking. Believers see it as a fraught environment in which aesthetic decisions need to be delicately balanced with complex representational issues. But for doubters it’s an over-theorised field that analyses far too deeply the act of pointing a camera. Two recent New Zealand books demonstrate the pleasures, and dangers, available at each end of this spectrum." read more
NZ Herald - Peter Simpson
"Peter Black's latest collection of photographs of street life in Wellington - a subject he has made his own through a succession of books and exhibitions over the past three decades - begins with the image of a man seen only from below the shoulders on a city pavement, stooping, hand outstretched, to pick up a portable car-seat holding a sleeping baby." read more
NZ Books - The difficult decisive moment by Tom Elliot
The Lumiere Reader - I loved you the moment i saw you by Andy Palmer
