– FROM THE ARCHIVE – Copyright 2005, David J. Bookbinder I work as a psychotherapist, often with artists, and display some of these images in my treatment room. From time to time my clients mention them and they become part of the discussion. This occurs usually when artists are talking about difficulties they are having with their creative process, sometimes even in a spiritual context. The combination of natural elements (the photographs of flowers, sky, wood, stone, or metal that these images are based on) and digital manipulation into the mandala form seems both to stimulate and to relax. My…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By davidbookbinder
David J. Bookbinder is a photographer and writer living in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about an hour north of Boston. He has been taking pictures since he was a boy. In the '70s, he worked in a semi-professional capacity as a black-and-white photographer for small newspapers and record companies in Manhattan and also sold stock photographs. After a twenty-year hiatus, he has recently re-entered photography and gone digital. The shift from straight black-and-white, film-based photography to shooting in color and processing images on a computer has literally been an eye-opener. See more of his work by visiting here.
A YEAR OF FLORA: THE FLOWER MANDALA CONTEST
(Images are copyrighted David J. Bookbinder, 2005) The SCQ is pleased to present a contest that seeks “creative” entries inspired by the photographic images found in David Bookbinder’s Flower Mandalas Project. These creative pieces can be composed to the whim of the author, in any form including (but not limited to) poetry, fiction, and/or personal essay; and should preferably refer to a specific flower image found either here or at the main website. Two book prizes will be made available to the favourite two submissions, being “The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century” by Andrew…