Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘The Brilliant Image’ by Hafiz
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘The Brilliant Image’ by Hafiz. From a collection of 59 poems by Hafiz (1320-1389), called ‘renderings’ rather than translations. Daniel Ladinsky successfully brought this popular Persian poet to life in the West. Ladinsky describes Hafiz as a ‘playwright who acts all the parts: the lover, the disciple, the Master, the Guide, the voice of God, and sometimes even the reader’.
Source: ‘I Heard God Laughing:” Renderings of Hafiz: by Daniel Ladinsky.
I hope you enjoy this poem, I have matched @Draman – Roger Guetta’s image with this poem. You can follow him on Instagram here.
To view the others we have published in this section, go here.
One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
the Infinite Incandescence
that has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely or in darkness,
the Astonishing Light
of your own Being
~ Hafiz
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
