NZ Visual Diary - entry 262

curio shop window - K Road

After a month’s hiatus to attend to my wife following her fall and three-point ankle fracture, I have resumed my photography walks around Auckland central city, albeit for abbreviated periods of time each outing.

My instincts took me to K Road, a place where I continually find bracing oddity and novelty. The display window of a curio shop is emblematic of the street’s irreverent disorder. The display does not disappoint.

Photographing a shop window in daylight is never straightforward. There is always a cascade of reflections, presenting an ‘inside-out’ effect: images from interior and street juxtaposed, layered and segmented in chaotic multi-dimensions.

I stood aside the reflection’s vortex, this to maintain my pose as the anonymous photographer, and held my breath as I pressed the shutter button, motionless in opposition to the ricocheting movement on the plate glass canvas.