words in a notebook #4

© paul willaert

words in a notebook #3

© paul willaert (brugge 2010)

words in a notebook #2

© paul willaert (brugge - 2010)

life here is very different #27

© paul willaert (boston - 2010)

comme à ostende #3

© paul willaert

words in a notebook #1

© paul willaert

dear gascogne #1

© paul willaert

I think the stars were created for desert aficionados, with the moon built specifically for sailorly personalities. nick jaffe

comme à ostende #2

© paul willaert

life here is very different #26

© paul willaert

life here is very different #25

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #25

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #24

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #23

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #22

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #21

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

life here is very different #20

© paul willaert (boston - july 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #26

© paul willaert (rianxo - ria de arousa spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #25

© paul willaert (rianxo - ria de arousa spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #24

© paul willaert (pobra do caraminal - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #23

© paul willaert (pobra do caraminal - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #22

© paul willaert (isla de cies, ria de vigo - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #21

© paul willaert (isla de ciès - ria de vigo - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #19

© paul willaert (blue train john coltrane - porto portugal 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #18

© paul willaert (porto - portugal 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #17

© paul willaert (ria de vigo - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #16

© paul willaert (cabo villano camarinhas- spain 2010)

q.

La photographie est un état d'esprit, il faut être éveillé et exigeant.
L'essentiel est de ne pas chercher à plaire.

bernard plossu

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #15

© paul willaert (la corunha - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #13

© paul willaert (la corunha - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #12

© paul willaert (a brosa - spain 2010)

Marisa - Manolo - José Antonio - Celestino una oracion 1957

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #11

© paul willaert (ile houat - france 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #10

© paul willaert (a brosa - spain 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #9

© paul willaert (after a three days' crossing of biscay the galician coast at last - 2010)

q.

The geography of the sailor is not always the one of the cartographer, for whom a cape is a cape with its longitude and latitude. For the sailor, a great cape is both very simple and extremely complex, with rocks, currents, furling seas, beautiful oceans, good winds and gusts, moments of happiness and of fright, fatigue, dreams, aching hands, an empty stomach, marvelous minutes and sometimes suffering. A great cape, for us, cannot be translated only into a latitude and a longitude. A great cape has a soul, with shadows and colors, very soft, very violent. A soul as smooth as that of a child, as hard as that of a criminal.

Bernard Moitessier

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #8

© paul willaert (île saint nicolas - les îles glénan - france 2010)

q.

It’s a simple assumption to believe that in photography everything has been done already. Of course, it’s not true. There are many things waiting for be discovered by a creative artist. But believing that everything has been done is easier than thinking about what hasn’t been done: It’s not like you can will your brain into coming up with a genius new idea. You can’t. What’s the point, though, of taking pictures if everything has been done already? The answer is simple and straightforward: Unless you want to view photography as part of the entertainment industry where all that matters are cheap new thrills, that which has been seen thousands of times deserves to be seen yet another time, in a different way.

J. M. Colberg

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #7

© paul willaert (ile houat - belle ile france 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #6

© paul willaert (trebeurden france- 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #5

© paul willaert (cherbourg france 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #4

© paul willaert (le four brest france - 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #3

© paul willaert (beaucette - guernsey channel islands- 2010)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #2

© paul willaert (la corunha - spain - 2009)

where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship #1

© paul willaert (rianxo - ria de arousa - spain 2010)

a series of mobile phone images made on a sailing trip from nieuwpoort belgium to vigo spain

being stucked by days of strong winds and heavy seas in the small harbour of viveiro on the galician coast i read this small booklet
written by Elizabeth Smart 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'
from this book i picked the title of this series... 'where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship'

canvas #13

© paul willaert (gravelines france - 2009)

wish you were here #11

© paul willaert (londen - 2009)