Titles from right to left: “Opportunity”, “Happiness is a Warm Swing”, “Significantly Small, but Extremely Loud”, “The Canadian Dream”, “Converging David into Goliath”, “To Feel Like a Miniature”, “There’s Something about Something Found”.
I will be honest. There is something strange about trying not to feel anything while taking a photo. Also there is something strange about taking photos in public (at least for me) of objects that people seem not to ever care for. Yet, this style has opened up my mind and had me self reflect on how I feel while taking a photograph. Normally I take photos of people that I like, things that I like, and moments I want to remember and share. Yet by taking photos of things with an objective point of view I felt at first odd to be so disconnected with myself. I must admit it felt odd to take a photo of someone’s home. It was strange to me, and conflicting in a sense. My duty to produce photos by looking at various houses in an objective style but at the same time, they are not simply houses yet they are also someone’s home. I wondered, what it would feel like to have my own home suddenly looked into? What would could it look like? Then I began to think, can I take truly objective photos of someone or something that I am too familiar with? Too attached to? I found it much easier to photograph people or things that I didn’t know very well.
As I took more photos, I felt myself suddenly turn more “designer”. I began thinking not just of content but rethinking of how the lines converge, the shapes of the objects, and the strange street colour palettes. I guess you must think in an artsy kind of way to detach yourself the most? Let me know what you think. I wonder if this is how scientists think. They must at times I suppose though.