<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/Stylistsphotogs/brianferry/bffh030028.jpg" alt="tomatoes and coarse pepper" width="400" height="270" /></p>

The last month or so I have been completely and utterly enamoured. Not with a recipe or kitchen tool. Not even with a item of clothing or piece of music, but with the personal photographic work of <a href="http://bferry.wordpress.com/">Brian Ferry</a>.

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There is something very quiet..and restful about Brian's work.  Whether shots of his breakfast at home or plates of food at the eateries and events he visits there is a reflective nature that has me completely captivated. I find my eyes transfixed and my mind wandering; populating the missing elements of his pictures with my memories and daydreams.

<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/Stylistsphotogs/brianferry/bf91.jpg" alt="Pork Pies - Brian Ferry" width="400" height="265" /></p>

 It's not simply because he is a New Yorker living in London, while myself a Londoner in New York, connects to the aesthetics of his pictures through a literal familiarity. But rather there is an intangible quality that gives the work an inexplicable 'more' that is <em>felt</em> rather than seen. Tomatoes topped with coarse pepper on bread on a picnic table, pork pie slices, raspberries in yoghurt, cafe tables and Colemans mustard. Simple things in nature, but different through Brian's eye.

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<img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/Stylistsphotogs/brianferry/bffh030030.jpg" alt="By Brian Ferry" width="400" height="270" /></p>

If you haven't had a chance already, I highly encourage you to<a href="http://bferry.wordpress.com/"> look up Brian's work</a>. He posts new stuff on a near daily basis, you will love the journey I assure you.<em>And no..he isn't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ferry">Bryan Ferry</a>.</em>

<em>all images by <a href="http://bferry.wordpress.com/">brian ferry</a>
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