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"As a still life photographer you have control over everything," says Ion Zupcu. "Nothing moves.” Take a still life photographer bent on minimalism, as Zupcu was when he set out to capture the essence of paper, and you get a series of images that tell you both everything and nothing about what the photographer was thinking. "People don't have time to stop and discuss the way they feel about shapes, styles, and objects they see," he explains. "So my images are a conversation with myself, a diary of what I see." He chose the edge of paper as his focus, "to leave the rest of the image a mystery." For these quiet, restrained images, Zupcu was both sculptor and photographer, creating objects that leave us guessing at the scale (they are mere inches high). And nothing appears to be holding the paper in place--except, perhaps, the will of the photographer.
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