THE ABEL PHOTOGRAPHER: brief plot and synopsis

In brief

 

What happens when an artist is so obsessed with one work of art that he loses the meaning of art itself?

'The Abel Photographer' is a story about a man so obsessed with recreating a lost photograph by the late James Abel that he is effectively blind to all other fine photographs he himself is making. On the way he goes on to learn the most invaluable lesson about uniqueness that any artist can hope to learn -- that art has infinite perspectives.

 

 

Synopsis

 

When Adam Weathers discovers a lost photograph by a legendary photographer, the late James Abel, tucked away in his bookshelf, he embarks on a mission to understand photography as an art by "seeing what Abel saw and feeling what Abel felt" by re-creating the scene from that photograph.

 

His mission soon turns into an obsession with dissatisfaction brimming after each shot because he is never quite able to replicate Abel's work.

 

Adam works with the very meaning of his art lost on him only realising long after that every photograph he has clicked is actually unique in some way -- only, he is too busy pursuing a false gem to realise what he's missing.

 

In a dramatic turn of events, he finally re-learns the true spirit of art: the fact that every work is unique.