I like taking pictures of people...but only if they don't notice the camera. Therein for me is the problem, to get far away enough you have to break out the longer lenses... and a big fonkin' lens just gets you noticed quicker.
I like honest pictures, can't do poses. We hates them.
Those portraits are wonderful; really great snapshots of life on the move. Something struck me, though, as I was looking at pictures from all over the world: No one looks happy or relaxed. Everyone looks serious, determined, preoccupied--but no one looks like they're just enjoying themselves. It's actually a little disturbing. I often find that commonalities bind people together. These pictures seem to suggest that we're bound together by the things that pull us apart: worry, tension, isolation, being elsewhere instead of being present. Certainly photography can capture this better than any other medium in terms of immediacy. At the same time, these images show a world that is not necessarily a hospitable place to live.
A lot of the earlier photography in those sets seems to use quite a bit of color saturation and overexposure...not a bad thing necessarily (I prefer the look myself) ... the later sets seem to capture the "human in the wild" idea that I prefer, however, the distance of the subject loses intimacy with the viewer (IMHO).
But overall, thank you, I always like being exposed to new photographers. There's a Russian photographer (she's an indie and an amateur) whose photography (again, IMO) is really quite promising: ruprixru is her LJ name, her website is
I totally crushed out on the brown dog. She was so sweet and came to me as if she knew me and we were old friends. I didn't want to let her go. She was darling.
This YouTube documentary made me think of you today. It's about a photographer who has held a fascination with the Deep Down Dirty Southtm for years now. I like to describe his projects as 'photojourneys.' His photography, while often posed, still tells a story. He talks also about how he has learned to be 'more brave' with his photography by getting lost in a large crowd with his camera.
---that whole channel (The Journeymanpictures Channel, has 3500+ documentaries, most of which are simply poignant and brilliant).
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I like honest pictures, can't do poses. We hates them.
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But overall, thank you, I always like being exposed to new photographers. There's a Russian photographer (she's an indie and an amateur) whose photography (again, IMO) is really quite promising: ruprixru is her LJ name, her website is
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And thanks!
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---that whole channel (The Journeymanpictures Channel, has 3500+ documentaries, most of which are simply poignant and brilliant).
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