I would like to touch upon the topic of documentary photography. Now it's very easy to see the most famous photos of the past years, you don't even need to buy magazines for this, just having the Internet is enough.
Reportage and documentary photography have always worked for the viewer.
Where are all these staged wedding and love story photo shoots? Most of them don't even review them.
Well, an urban or landscape landscape can still retain its documentary.
And all the most interesting lies in the street photos, which reflect everyday life.
The epoch will pass, time will fly by quickly, and then it will be interesting to consider only such photos.
I don't judge only by myself.
A lot of ordinary people who are not related to photography really like to look at pictures from the past, where people or some recognizable place are depicted.
Even Marilyn Monroe is much more interesting to see how she looked in ordinary life, and was not photographed staged.
It was a shock to me when I found out for the first time that you can just shoot everyday life and it will be interesting.
Since then, the mind has already transformed, but I still sometimes wonder how everyday life can be interesting!
It is also interesting to operate with the elements of space, as if you are putting together some kind of puzzle.
It's a pity, but you can't move them yourself.
But then it will be a staged photo that I don't like.
Spots are not difficult to capture: where there is a lot of everything, something will turn out there.
The main thing is to collect in the frame what will look interesting.
If I'm attracted to some details, then I embed them in the frame.
It often has an unexpected effect, as I sometimes give myself completely to circumstances.
What kind of image will develop, that's the right one!
I turn out to be a kind of medium between the unconscious and reality.
If you suddenly get some unusual shape from the elements of the frame or a strange pose in a person, then maybe it's necessary?
Maybe the image that we thought was a mistake or a spoiled take is actually correct?
Maybe reality wanted imperfections, and we ruined everything by deleting an unsuccessful frame?
And the answer can be given only by feeling something inside yourself in relation to the frame.
To be continued...
When I saw people playing in the snow, I remembered my childhood.