How many good times slip away quietly in the sunrise and sunset, only photography can keep the beautiful moments. People's lives are on the road. It's not just about being on the way to a place. It also represents the growth path of each person. In this process, the paths we travel, the books we read, and the people we meet will ultimately be reflected in our photography works.
Whether you are commuting to get off work hard for your dreams, or on the way to wash your mind and free yourself on the road. The people, things, and beautiful scenery we met during this period are all worth recording with our cameras to freeze those wonderful moments. Every photo will have its own uniqueness, because different people will have different interpretations of the same scene.
The meaning of photography has different manifestations in different times, and it also has different meanings for different individuals. Especially in such an era of personalization and diversity, the meaning of photography is also extremely diverse.
Photography is the freeze of time; it can make the moment eternal. Roman Barth believes that a photo is a "witness of a fleeting moment", the result of an event, a proof that a certain moment in the elapsed time has existed and has passed, and the traces of the event are left on the photo. However, moments are always short-lived and do not represent continuous fragments of life. Frank presents some cool and ironic images of the fleeting moments of ordinary life in his photobook The Americans. The decisive moments that Bresson brought up are also related to moments, those coincidental moments that draw our attention to the drama of life. Emotions such as pondering, sadness, touching, irony, etc. are instantly reflected in the frozen picture, and isn't our life composed of these colorful emotions.
Recall is the process of recovering the memory of past experience, the memory will fade over time, and the photo can recognize or recall the material at the moment when the memory needs to be recalled again. Human social life and the long river of life change with the flow of time. However, human memory is very limited, and the memories that can be recorded in words are very thin. Photography is born with this desire and need.
Compared with pictures, the credibility conveyed by simple text descriptions is relatively low. Photos have objectivity and authenticity, so that the things presented in some photos can make the viewer feel close to the truth even if there is no text to assist the understanding of the narrative. Because the person involved in the event cannot be taken as a viewer, the photo itself is also objective. In photojournalism, photography reproduces things with precision, and photographs are presented as evidence.
Photography is the way the observer sees through the eye of a centrally focused camera, a way of seeing that has been shaped over two centuries. Photography can confirm that we are actually connected to the world, it can not only represent where we have been, but also capture our real experience. Photography is a way for individuals to understand the external experience world, and it is also a way of expressing their inner world to the external world.
Some people like to find beauty in the details, photographing drops of water dripping on leaves, looking for butterflies hidden in flowers, or two cats they meet on a street corner. Some people like to take pictures of people's stories, such as the warm daily life of a family, a stranger in the street, and so on. Some people love big scenes such as cars coming and going in the city, or magnificent mountains and rivers...
These natural scenery, folk customs, and documentary characters encountered on the road all reflect the photographer's keen observation of life and are a great expression of self-cultivation.
