Thursday, September 26, 2013

'We're All Gonna Die- 100 meters of existence'

I love this piece by Simon Hogsberg. He shot in the same spot on a railroad bridge in Berlin to capture a massive variety of people. It's a completely different style to what I'm used to. Not every shot is framed well; heads are chopped off, people are blocking others behind them, there are unfocused figures in the foreground. It's also digital, without much alteration, which I tend to find boring. I feel this way because it's as if there's no aspect of "art", you're not creating something so much as capturing a moment, producing exactly what your eyes see. And most of the time the things we see everyday are boring. But that's why I love this piece so so much. Sure, it's capturing a moment in time, but the point is that in a given moment there are a million different people doing a million different things, ordinary or not. It's an idea I'm interested in exploring and also a style I might want to try, which would challenge me to figure out how to shoot digitally in a way I don't find boring. 

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