Sam Jones’ first solo exhibition took place at An Tobar, the Tobermory arts centre, between 2 May and 28 June 2013. I was fortunate to be in Mull during June and so visited the exhibition. The title of the exhibition poses an important question, not just for a landscape photographer, but for all photographers. What is it that we are trying to “capture” or “take”? Perhaps the capture is about freezing an emotional response to a subject. The ambiguous term “possession” makes us question what possession of an image means. More than a simple legal ownership issue, possession may be about the degree of control exercised by the photographer at the point of pressing the shutter.
