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july 2010
Ned Lyttelton
www.flickriver.com/photos/marysson/sets/

    

About the artist
Ned is a photographer living in Toronto. This is his first solo show. It is a retrospective, representing his work from the 1970s to the present.

He is primarily an urban photographer. At its most basic level, his photography is about uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, seeing the vivid and magical in the everyday. What is there to be seen is discovered in ordinary objects - an electricity cable, a swing set, a bit of stucco, a bundle of pipes, a torn poster, a cat in a doorway. 

The show is called Ordinary Magic, a way of seeing practised and taught by Tibetan teacher and scholar Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In Trungpa’s words:

“If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.”

You can see more of Ned’s work on Flickriver.

E-mail: ned.lyt@gmail.com