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Matinee: 'Liquid Lens'
29 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 597th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Liquid Lens.
This 5:52 video features the work of Trent Mitchell, the Australian fine art photographer who narrates the film.
Self-taught, Mitchell has been photographing for over 20 years in both film and digital, black-and-white and color. He spent his youth, he says, at the beach every day taking photos of his friends with an underwater camera. Then he launched a career in art direction, design and publishing that eventually led to photography to flesh out his graphic design work.
He's amused by people who think everything's already been done. He doesn't believe it, he says. "Tomorrow's never been done," he points out.
He keeps it simple, he says, regardless of the pressures of the job or the client. Work comes to him from clients who appreciate his personal photography to begin with, an arrangement he doesn't ever want to disrupt. "You can work personal work into your job as well," he's learned.
Success for him, he explains, is connecting to people through your work. But then, you first have to connect the work to yourself.
Like the ocean itself, it's a rather fluid approach.