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300 copies, available individually numbered and signed. It shines a new light on a favourite landmark, captured in an intimate moment before ‘curtains up’ in the stillness before awakening, before the azure sky and sea make sprout beach umbrellas like monster flowers in the golden sand - a view usually associated with Catalan Bay. “This is my most special work to date. I went there several times before attaining the effect I really wanted. Eventually it came my way. With landscape photography, it is fifty-fifty: I pick the spot and take the shot, but luck and light provide the rest. I can make GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2021
I pick the spot and take the shot, but luck and light provide the rest. it a masterpiece only if nature facilitates the ideal conditions for it.” The secret for a landscape photographer’s success is, according to Frank, nothing but trial and error, not being afraid of failure and criticism, including selfcriticism, which must be taken in one’s stride. “Understand who you are as a photographer: it is ok to be a beginner and improve with experience. The secret is repetition: snap it over and over
again, until you are satisfied with the outcome. Always push your boundaries. Ask yourself: if I have gone this far, how can improve myself?” In his university years, Frank was fascinated by street photography – which cost him being hurled abuse at, while teaching him the no-nos of it. Part of his street photography project was a documentary on bikers: “It is fully black and white, and it portrays the relationship between rider and bike.” He wouldn’t go as far as describing it as a study on urban tribes, but he was interested in the sociological 51