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Scottish and sophisticatedKen Reynolds takes a close look at the TheatrePhotographs taken from the theatre stage are not just photographs taken from the theatre stage. At least the ones of Ken Reynolds. His Theatre Photographs -exhibition are to be seen at two venues during the Baltic Circle -festival: at Q-teatteri and Aleksanterin teatteri. - My first priority is to take pictures, whose content is theatre. But at this first level they can be enjoyed as any pictures and the content can be ignored. The viewer doesn’t have to know anything about the theatres the photos are presenting, says Ken Reynolds. At the second level the theatre itself gets into the picture. And now we are not talking about different acts in a row. - I want to capture the spirit of the event into my photos. I always take photos of the total performance, because I want to feel the emotion of it and not just be a recorder of the events. I do not take pictures, that can be given away at press conferences, Ken Reynold reminds. Documentation of the theatre is the third level of his work, which comes like a bonus to these two prior levels. - I consider the photograph in addition to the critics of the play is the right way to document the theatre. Video doesn’t count for me, it’s a good medium for example to show to producers what has been done, but it doesn’t capture the theatre itself. The video doesn’t have an angel to the theatre, like a photograph and critisism do. It doesn’t select anything, it’s too objective, it just records, Ken Reynolds says. Seeing differentlyThe photo exhibition shows pictures from theatres in Eastern Europe, including Finland. Ken Reynolds has never been interested in taking pictures of the British theatre. He thinks it’s probably a question of the language. - When you don’t understand the language, you see things in a different way. Instead of just listening of what the text says, you concentrate on seeing, Ken Reynolds says. Seeing differently is like a trademark of Ken Reynolds. Before the theatre photos he took pictures of landscapes, first the traditional ones, but then more and more orinigal ones — like rusty metal objects lying on a wasteland. His secret landscapes, as he likes to call them. - A blank wall is never just a blank wall. A man sees more or less what he’s used to see or what goes around in his head at that moment. - I know there will be the day when I won’t be able to take photos of the theatre anymore, my strenghts won’t allow me to respond as rapidly as the theatre demands. I won’t go back to do what I did before the theatre, but I always want to explore things visually. Maybe I start to study people sitting on the train. We think we see everything what is around us, but we don’t. Things are moving all the time, they’re never the same, Ken Reynolds says.
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