Along with the Foreword to Michael Levin’s book ‘Zebrato’, I wrote this copy for the inside front book flap. This particular text has been cited many times in reviews of Michael Levin’s photographs. A short messsage can go a long way.
Using long exposures, Michael Levin pulls his world taut, so that what remains in the landscape feels essential and revealed. There is a deceiving simplicity in his images as if these places need only to be found to be realized. Places simple and totemic. It is Levin’s own pure sensibility which arranges this view, which finds these small moments and gives them weight and value and timelessness. Levin is particularly smart at capturing the smooth skin of light, the way it rolls over a place in the course of minutes rendering his subjects their own private beauty. He illuminates these common places with new intent which makes his images both transfixing and transformative.
