Shutter Hub has published its latest photo book, Do You Like Love? (See post 9th July 2025.) The introduction sets the scene.
‘Do you like love? The question came from a conversation, recalled by a friend. Her elderly neighbour used to cry for “elp!” and Jane’s husband Pip would rush to her aide. Sometimes she’d fallen, but rarely; although she wsa blind she had lived in that house for 60 years, she knew every inch of it. A house filled with memories of her husband, their life together, and her aloneness after his death. On the one day that she called out, she was found sitting with the television on, a black and white film playing out a romantic scene from the 1950s. “Do you like love, Pippy?” she said, “I like Love.” Quiet gestures, moments of care … what does love look like?’
There are 100 images ‘connecting the dots between the letters of love’ in a myriad of ways: relationships; symbols; experiences; the human body; embraces and touches; the play of light; places, notably homes; abstract shapes and textures; and things, especially flowers, trees and pets. My contribution here, originally from the ruckenfigur project.