Un/Taken ep. 8 George Appletree

Want to read what you don't get to see?

This topic is about the photo you did not take. If you haven’t seen the previous episodes, read those stories here.

For this episode we hear the story of George Appeltree, a photographer from Spain and Fellow Substack author. He will tell us about his photos, taken and untaken.

Here we go.

Untaken

Which photo was untaken and why did you not take it?

When you asked me to tell the story, one came to mind. Of course, there are many (too many?) photos that I didn't take because I checked my film roll or SD card and realised that there wasn't much there at the time... But as I have been running The other side of the mirror in Substack since the beginning of the year, I would like to tell the other side of the story here. It happened once at a talk by René Burri, the famous Magnum photographer. He was presenting his latest (perhaps his last ever) book. A hefty retrospective of his career. He was wearing a …