Look & See Me is a book about thoughts and feelings experienced at the time through an eighteen-year-old boy growing up in Australia but wishing to be elsewhere.
We follow his journeyand thoughtsto America and home again.
And only upon returning to Australia does the author find his love for photography, which enables him to share these thoughts and dreams with others in a more tangible medium.
This is both a written and visual journey over the years, of loneliness, melancholy, despair, and hope.
It takes the reader from an eighteen-year-old boy to an almost sixty-year-old man, through the years, sharing both his poetry and his images.
Circa l’autore
Raymond Cooper in an author of not so much words, but of feelings. It is also his unique ability as a photographer that enables him to accompany his written work with beautiful and compelling images.
He enables the reader to visit a time and a place within us all.