Abeyance

This project was very liberating and enjoyable for me because I both really respect this style of photography and thoroughly take pleasure in doing it.  I felt the most in my element when doing this kind of photography compared to any other project we’ve done thus far in class.  I love the challenge of shooting interesting, candid pictures depicting everyday life, trying to catch people as they are without them seeing the lens and posing.  I feel the exposed, spontaneity of daily life has more beauty and excitement in it than constructing a set trying to recreate a false situation.

The strangeness of daily life always provides ample opportunities to capture amazing, intriguing photographs.  So, I didn’t go into the project with clear cut goals.  I just wanted to be flexible and let the chips fall as they may.  I wanted to go where there were people and let them do the rest.  Its about being in the right place at the right time—there’s only so much preparation you can do.  In that respect, this project was very challenging.  Often I thought I’d got a good shot only to see that it was too blurry or too dark or any number of things went wrong.  So, I quickly realized quantity was essential to this project.  I had to take a lot of shots—there was just no way around that.  The unpredictable nature of life made it so.  At the same time, knowing that moments are fleeing, I did my best to be as ready as possible.

I think I did a decent job of “capturing the moment” through the depictions of people and their actions.  But, of course, improvement is always welcome and I’ll continue exploring this style in the future.